Over the years, my interests and writings have varied from Lebanese post-Cold War art and politics, including theories of witnessing, testimony and critiques of memory culture; Realism and modernism debates in documentary; Contemporary art and value; The intersections of Marxism, psychoanalysis and law.
My doctoral work revolved around art and politics in the context of post-Cold War Lebanon and private reconstruction, reading the formal strategies of certain artists and filmmakers as a form of ideology critique and part of an extended political modernism through their rethinking of the figure of the witness.
I taught Marxist and post-Marxist critiques of contemporary art and my interest in labour and art organizing grew leading to my involvement in a prototype for a Left art protocol project.
I have written about hypochondriasis and modernity, exploring the dialectics of health and illness in the figure of critique that I argue is the hypochondriac. I am drafting a book length manuscript on this question. II am also developing a book-length prose essay titled Capital as a State of Mind’, which develops a lexicon of categories of political economy, read socially and psychoanalytically.
In view of my longstanding interest in critiques of human rights discourse, I began researching the intersections of law and psychoanalysis in their potential for a renewed critique of liberalism and the founding violence of law. And most recently am developing an essay on Palestine, human rights discourse, and Israeli-American exceptionalism.
My first book, Between October in November is forthcoming with Fitzcarraldo Editions (2025).
