I am a PhD student in International Relations at the University of Oxford. My thesis explores questions of political subjectivity and hegemony in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. Embracing notions of contradiction, paradox, and fluidity, I trace the shifting terrains and scales of Jawlani anticolonial praxis amid Zionism’s attempt to produce colonial subjectivities. My research is supervised by Hashem Abushama and Yaacov Yadgar, and funded by Nuffield College and the ESRC.

I draw on long-term ethnography, in-depth interviews, photography, oral history, and archival materials in Arabic and Hebrew. To study how people make sense of their complex social worlds, I engage with Marxist and queer theory, critical geography, and political anthropology.

At Oxford, I have taught undergraduates across departments and disciplines in courses on International Relations, Geographies of Debt, Marxism, and Politics in the Middle East. In the Department of Politics and International Relations, I co-founded and co-convene the interdisciplinary Sovereignty and its Discontents (SAID) seminar. I have published my writing and photography in collaboration with the Institute for Palestine Studies.

Previously, I completed an MPhil in International Relations (funded by Nuffield College & ESRC) at Oxford; and a BSc in Politics, Psychology, Law and Economics at the University of Amsterdam, where I received the Middle East Studies Center’s Best Thesis Prize.