Academic Journals
& Book Chapters
A Pinch of Imagination (w/ Paulina Lanz). Lateral.
How to Conduct Internet Meme Research. Chapter in SAGE Research Methods: Doing Research Online (2022)
Messy on the inside: Internet memes as mapping tools of everyday life. Information, Communication & Society (2021)
Memes and the Spread of Misinformation: Establishing the Importance of Media Literacy in the Era of Information Disorder (w/ Rachel Moran). Teaching Media Quarterly (2021)
Whose pedagogy is it anyway? Decolonizing the syllabus through a critical embrace of difference. Media, Culture & Society (2020)
Not Arabi or Ajnabi: Arab Youth and Reorienting Humor. International Journal of Communication (2020)
Arab Americans and Participatory Culture. Chapter in: Lori Kido Lopez (ed.) Race and Media: Critical Approaches. NYU Press (2020)
Reimagining the Arab Spring: From limitation to creativity (w/ Yomna Elsayed). Chapter in: Henry Jenkins and Sangita Shresthova (Eds.) Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: Case Studies of Creative Social Change. NYU Press (2020)
Book Review: Media Politics in China: Improvising Power under Authoritarianism. Global Media and Communication (2019)
Represented Dreams: Subversive expressions in the Chinese blogosphere as alternative symbolic maps. Social Media + Society (2018)
When Gangnam Hits the Middle East: Re-makes as Identity Practice (w/ Ira Lyan & Limor Shifman). Asian Communication Research (2015)
Popular Press
untitled (discourse). Social Text.
3 Questions: Sulafa Zidani on tech, culture, and a critical transnational perspective. MIT News.
Tumblr, TikTok, Dead Memes, and ‘Me’: Finding Yourself in the Niche-fied Internet (an interview with Amanda Brennan). Pop Junctions
Three Buses and the Rhythm of Remembering. The Markaz Review 22nd issue.
Algorithms of death and oppression: Grief, interactivity, and disrupting algorithms on social media [Arabic, w/ Areej Mawasi]. Fus’ha.
The Quarantine Question. Art Journal Open. Issue edited by Dana E. Katz and Lisa Pon.
Teaching during COVID-19: How to help students cope with stress under uncertainty and make room for compassion in the classroom. Berkeley School of Information Thoughts and Resources for Online Teaching due to COVID19.
Pride of the Arabs: Mo, Morality, and Memes. Mada Masr
‘Say It Again’ Meme. USC Annenberg Magazine.
A Revolution of Forced Happiness: China Announces List of Banned Songs. (with Rachel Beitarie). Mekomit (Local Call) // English Translation
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