This essay an attempt to understand what thinking through failure and despair might mean for a generation that witnessed radical political change, including a revolution and its savage counter-revolutionary backlash, and a world order rapidly running toward its own demise and the possibility of love as resistance

Letter (5) is part of a series of the project, “Letters to a Young Lover”, an epistolary publication on queerness, ecological anxiety, and possibilities of relatedness in a post-apocalyptic world

An essay reflecting on Hannah Arendt’s dissertation, Love and Saint Augustine, trying to think about how the notion of love can also bring the notion of possibility

Text contribution for A Book On A Proposed House Museum for the Unknown Crying Man, DAAD (with the support of AFAC), 2022

This essay is part of a collaboration with artist Yvonne Buchheim, looking at the nature of migraines, the body in pain and family histories that manifest themselves through genetic and physical experiences and conditions. The essay uses the process of migraines itself as a dramaturgy to understanding what is going through our brains during a migraine.

An essay part of the anthology, Encounter/تلاقي in November 2019. The text explores queerness as a constant process of disappearing and reappearing, across time and space. The translation was commissioned by Outburst Festival for Queer Arts, with the support of the British Council.

This essay reflects on the aftermath of the rainbow flag incident, when a rainbow flag was waived at a concert, by the Lebanese band, Mashrou Leila in Cairo in 2017. The subsequent arrests and persecution of members of the LGBT+ community in Egypt remains unprecedented

This essay reflects on the legacy of Nina Simone, both as musician, activist and a black icon. The essay was written after the release of Simone’s daughter, Lisa Simone’s documentary (she was the executive producer), What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015) raising questions about motherhood, representations of mental illness and the problematics of doing political art while being constantly radicalized.

This essay was originally published in ArteEast quarterly, Winter 2014

The essay examines the 25 January Revolution in Egypt and the ensuing political protest that took place from 2011 on, through the lens of performance studies and the concept of the affect. The text tries to shed the light on the important of performing political symbols as potential and reaction to conditions of oppression and marginalization