Books
Time and power in Azraq refugee camp: A nine-to-five emergency. AUC Press, 2023. Winner of the 2023 Alixa Naff Prize in Migration Studies.
Articles
Resilience for whom? Resiliency humanitarianism and everyday resistance in a carceral camp. Ethnos, 2025.
Preserving order: Narrating resilience as threat in Azraq refugee camp. Territory, Politics, Governance, 2023 (2021).
Thinking beyond gendered challenges: Experiences of a (female) aid worker-ethnographer in Jordan’s refugee camps. Refugee Review, 2020.
Rethinking the lessons from Za'tari refugee camp. Forced Migration Review, 2018.
Restoring childhood: Humanitarianism and growing up Syrian in Za’tari refugee camp. Contemporary Levant, 2017.
Book Chapters
Who labels the camp? Claiming ownership through visibility in Jordan. In S. Wippel (ed.) Branding the Middle East: Communication Strategies and Image Building from Qom to Casablanca. De Gruyter, 2023.
Book Reviews
Book review of Struggling for Time: Environmental Governance and Agrarian Resistance in Israel/Palestine (by N Gutkowski). Arab Studies Quarterly, 2025.
The digital is political in Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan (by M Twigt). Journal of Refugee Studies, 2022.
Book review of Camps Revisited: Multifaceted Spatialities of a Modern Political Technology (eds I Katz, D Martin, & C Minca). Journal of Refugee Studies, 2019.
Opinion & Commentary
Syria after Assad: Why many Syrian refugees aren't returning home. The Conversation, 2025.
On writing the history of a modern refugee camp. Refugee History, 2024.
Op-ed: A camp is never a solution. South Side Weekly, 2023.
Going beneath the surface: The subtler messages about forced displacement in 'The Swimmers'. Allegra Lab, 2023.
How time reveals hidden power in the refugee camp. Sussex Centre for Migration Research, 2023.
Novak Djokovic was detained for five days - refugees in the same hotel have been there for years. The Conversation, 2022.
Research on the pandemic, in the pandemic: How does a project adjust to changing needs in the field? Sheffield Institute for Global Sustainable Development, 2022.
Adapting to Azraq: Syrian heritage, vulnerability, and being new in a refugee camp. Council for British Research in the Levant, 2018.
Olympic resilience: The ‘Refugee Nation’ competes for a place on the world’s stage. Allegra Lab, 2016.