I am a doctoral candidate in the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania and will begin studying for a JD at Yale Law School in 2020. My dissertation is a critical examination of how U.S.-centric genre fiction labels enable certain kinds of asymmetrical circulation when applied to or/and inhabited by contemporary Iraqi fiction and film, both in Arabic and in translation.

Other interests include portrayals of artificial intelligence in film, literature, & law; the legal history of technological development; and the relationship between law & culture. 

Published writing:

"Review: Baghdad Noir," Middle Eastern Literatures 21, nos. 2-3 (2018): 260-62.

"At War with Monsters in Postwar Iraqi Literature," Los Angeles Review of Books, February 24, 2018.