Workshops, Conferences, and Lectures

2025:

‘Dying and Dreaming’ at ‘Death Time’ workshop, SOAS, University of London. 2025

‘Nomadic Refusals’, 5th International Sociological Association (ISA) Forum of Sociology, Rabat, Morocco. 2025

‘Insistent wujud’ in ‘Popular Mobilization, Subaltern Histories, and Revolutionary Politics: Gramscian themes in South West Asia and North Africa’ panel, British Society for Middle East Studies (BRISMES) Conference "Destruction, Loss, and Recovery in the Middle East". Newcastle University, UK. 2025

2024:

‘On the Coloniality of International Human Rights on Statelessness’, British Society for Middle East Studies (BRISMES) Conference "Proliferating Entanglements: Matter and Meaning in the Middle East". Lancaster University, UK. 2024

‘No feminism without anticolonialism: towards a just feminist international thinking’ Roundtable, British International Studies Association (BISA), Birmingham, UK. 2024.

‘Telling Stateless Stories Otherwise’ at “(Re)Narrating the ‘International’: Telling stories from feminist and decolonial perspectives” panel, British International Studies Association (BISA), Birmingham, UK. 2024

‘Statelessness and Vernacular Human Rights’ at ‘Understanding difference and inequality in Gulf societies: Methodological, political and conceptual reflections from the field’ workshop, University of Edinburgh. 2024

‘Transnational Anti-Gender Conversations’ Roundtable with Sonia Correa, Aiko Holvikivi, Dorottya Redai, and Abeera Khan at AHRC “Transnational 'Anti-Gender' Movements and Resistance: Narratives and Interventions” workshop, LSE. 2024

‘Theorising Gender – A Roundtable Discussion on the Future of Gender Research’, LSE Department of Gender Studies. 2024

 2023:

‘Stateless Subaltern Political Struggles in Kuwait’, British Society for Middle East Studies (BRISMES) Conference "Ecology, Crisis, and Power in the Middle East" at Exeter University, UK. 2023

‘Statelessness Struggles and Alternative Politics of Rights and Citizenship’ at “Methodologies for Imagining an Alternative Politics of (Human) Rights” workshop, LSE. 2023

‘Fieldwork Vignettes: Oral History and Ethnographic Storytelling’, LSE Department of Gender Studies. 2023

‘Anti-Feminist, Anti-Gender & Anti-Queer Politics in the Gulf’ at “Gender, Gulf and Culture” workshop, NYU Abu Dhabi. 2023

 ‘Unravelling Anti-Gender Politics in the Gulf’, ATGENDER Spring Conference: Feminist Pedagogy of/beyond Borders, Kadir Has University, Istanbul. 2023

 ‘Contemporary Anti-Gender Movements’ Lecture with Alyosxa Tudor and Clare Hemmings, LSE Department of Gender. 2023

 2022:

‘The Dead Raise Us’ keynote, at the LSE Gender Annual Conference: Death World(ing), 2022.

2020:

‘Queer Feminist Theory: An Introduction’ Lecture at the Department of English Language and Literature, Kuwait University. 2020

‘An Archive of Queer Feminisms with Sara Ahmed’, Kohl Journal special issue ‘Queer Feminisms’ launch. 2020

2018:

‘Queer Intimacies in Kuwait’ at “‘Queer’ Asia Conference: Bodies X Borders”, SOAS University of London. 2018

Events organising:

Breaking Silos: Building Solidarities in Gender Research, LSE.                                         2024

Methodologies for Imagining an Alternative Politics of (Human) Rights, LSE.                2023

Death World(ing)s Conference, LSE.                                                                                    2022