An anthropologist by training, her scholarly activity is in the areas of nationalism, refugees, conceptual histories of human rights and humanitarianism, and gender, sexuality and representations of violence. She also examines the production and consumption of incriminatory images of violence through digital media. She is currently working on a book project entitled: Narrating Home and Homelessness: Belonging and Un-Belonging in Bourj al-Barajneh Palestinian Refugee Camp. She has consulted for international and local NGOs such as Care (USA) and the Palestinian Women’s Humanitarian Organization. She has also served as a scholarly expert for the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada and for U.S. asylum cases.