Writing

Academic Journals
& Book Chapters

  • Beating Algorithmic Discrimination: Maneuvering Digital Surveillance to Indigenize the Narrative (w/ Dana Hasan and Amal Nazzal). International Journal of Communication (2025)

  • Tweet Like It’s Free: Civic Imagination in the 2021 Palestinian Unity Intifada. Journal of Palestine Studies.

  • 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