She has a special interest in knowledge production, decolonized methodologies, revolutionary movements, and anticolonial feminism. She received her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology with a Designated Emphasis in Feminist Theory and Research from the University of California at Davis. Her dissertation, entitled “Sumud: A Philosophy of Confronting Interrogation,” investigates the transforming colonial relations in colonized Palestine from the perspective of the interrogation-encounter. Her publications include “Sumud: A Palestinian Philosophy of Confrontation in Colonial Prisons” (South Atlantic Quarterly, 2014) and “Reconsidering Trauma: Towards a Palestinian Community Psychology” (Journal of Community Psychology, 2015).