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conferences & talks
November 9th, 2025
Historical Materialism, Twenty Second Annual Conference, SOAS, London Panel: The Making of the Lebanese Working Class 1950-1970 (Co-organizer)
Paper: “Rural Flight Has Thrown Too Many Uprooted People into the City!” State Planning at Lebanon’s Pe- ripheries and the Making of Beirut’s Suburbs 1958-1970
August 28th, 2024
RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, The Royal Geographical Society, London
Panel: Spatial Contestations: Dispossession, Dissent, and Development in Africa and the Levant.
Paper: Irrigation Development along the Orontes River: On Land Expropriation and Dispossession 1958-1970
January 4th, 2024
137th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, San Francisco, California
Panel: Development from the Peripheries: Perspectives from Postwar Guatemala, Lebanon, and Senegal (Co-organizer)
Paper: “Rural Flight Has Thrown Too Many Uprooted People into the City!” Investigating State Development and Regional Planning in Rural Lebanon, 1958–70
November 3rd, 2023
57th Annual meeting of The Middle East Studies Association, Montreal, Canada
Panel: At the Edges of Lebanon: Communities and the Spatial Politics of Infrastructural Development (Co-organizer)
Paper: Rural Lebanon: On Land Dispossession, Development, and Infrastructure 1958-1970
October 28th, 2023
10th Biennial Urban History Association Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Panel: Geographies of Place and Race
Paper: “Rural flight has thrown too many uprooted people into the city!”: An Investigation of Regional Planning and Development in Rural Lebanon 1958-1970
December 4th, 2022
56th Annual meeting of The Middle East Studies Association
Sheraton Denver Downtown
Panel: Climate, Water, and Ecology
Paper: Planning National Unity: An Investigation of State Development and Modernization in Rural Lebanon 1958-1970
October 22nd, 2022
19th National Conference on Panning History Society for American City & Regional Planning History, City University of New York Panel: Planning Beyond the City
Paper: Planning National Unity: An Investigation of State Development and Modernization in Rural Lebanon 1958-1970
April 21st, 2021
Civil War Rememberance Week, AUB Secular Club
American University of Beirut
Panel Title: The Lebanese Civil War: A History of Intergenerational Trauma.
April 10th, 2021
3rd Annual meeting of CaliMENA Workshop (Organizer)
University of California San Diego Paper: Bureaucratizing Sectarianism: Investigating Lebanese State Modernization and Development 1958-1970.
May 8th, 2019
2nd Annual meeting of CaliMENA Workshop,
University of California Los Angeles
Paper: ‘Lebanon beyond the sea’: The political and social transformationof the Lebanese diaspora community in the United States 1932-1943.
conferences & talks
November 9th, 2025
Historical Materialism, Twenty Second Annual Conference, SOAS, London Panel: The Making of the Lebanese Working Class 1950-1970 (Co-organizer)
Paper: “Rural Flight Has Thrown Too Many Uprooted People into the City!” State Planning at Lebanon’s Pe- ripheries and the Making of Beirut’s Suburbs 1958-1970
August 28th, 2024
RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, The Royal Geographical Society, London
Panel: Spatial Contestations: Dispossession, Dissent, and Development in Africa and the Levant.
Paper: Irrigation Development along the Orontes River: On Land Expropriation and Dispossession 1958-1970
January 4th, 2024
137th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, San Francisco, California
Panel: Development from the Peripheries: Perspectives from Postwar Guatemala, Lebanon, and Senegal (Co-organizer)
Paper: “Rural Flight Has Thrown Too Many Uprooted People into the City!” Investigating State Development and Regional Planning in Rural Lebanon, 1958–70
November 3rd, 2023
57th Annual meeting of The Middle East Studies Association, Montreal, Canada
Panel: At the Edges of Lebanon: Communities and the Spatial Politics of Infrastructural Development (Co-organizer)
Paper: Rural Lebanon: On Land Dispossession, Development, and Infrastructure 1958-1970
October 28th, 2023
10th Biennial Urban History Association Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Panel: Geographies of Place and Race
Paper: “Rural flight has thrown too many uprooted people into the city!”: An Investigation of Regional Planning and Development in Rural Lebanon 1958-1970
December 4th, 2022
56th Annual meeting of The Middle East Studies Association
Sheraton Denver Downtown
Panel: Climate, Water, and Ecology
Paper: Planning National Unity: An Investigation of State Development and Modernization in Rural Lebanon 1958-1970
October 22nd, 2022
19th National Conference on Panning History Society for American City & Regional Planning History, City University of New York Panel: Planning Beyond the City
Paper: Planning National Unity: An Investigation of State Development and Modernization in Rural Lebanon 1958-1970
April 21st, 2021
Civil War Rememberance Week, AUB Secular Club
American University of Beirut
Panel Title: The Lebanese Civil War: A History of Intergenerational Trauma.
April 10th, 2021
3rd Annual meeting of CaliMENA Workshop (Organizer)
University of California San Diego Paper: Bureaucratizing Sectarianism: Investigating Lebanese State Modernization and Development 1958-1970.
May 8th, 2019
2nd Annual meeting of CaliMENA Workshop,
University of California Los Angeles
Paper: ‘Lebanon beyond the sea’: The political and social transformationof the Lebanese diaspora community in the United States 1932-1943.
