I am a first year PhD student at the University of Rochester studying the history of photography with an emerging interest in folk arts. I studied at NYU Abu Dhabi during my undergraduate career and focused on issues of migrant labor and workers' rights there.
My work with photography includes a summer-long internship in 2019 with The National, a UAE national newspaper, working as a photojournalist intern with select work published, and my portfolio shown here.
Additionally, I have been the chief photography editor (and contributing writer) of my university's newspaper, The Gazelle, for two semesters. You can read and see my work here.
I have also worked at the NYUAD Arts Center as a photographer for the visual arts department. I was paid to photograph show openings and classroom activities for the department. I also work for the Akkasah Center for Photography, and have recently completed cataloguing of the Syria Collection.