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“Seeking Asylum in The Cassette Shop: Performing, Receiving, and Circulating Magical Futures,” TDR: The Drama Review (forthcoming, 2024)
“Subverting Statues: Race, Space, Performance, and the Arab American National Museum,” ASAP/Journal (forthcoming, 2024)
"Making Peace with the Past? Applying Theatre to Asylum Seekers’ Trauma,” Peace and Change 49, no. 4 (2024): 353-359
“Consent, Voyeurism, and Power: Improv and Image Theatre, Sexual (Mis)conduct, and the Limits of Critical Pedagogy in Drama Workshops with British Muslim Youth,” Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, January (2024)
“Being Muslim for Dummies, or How Not to Be a Threat 101: Embodied Performances of Race and Religion after the Manchester Attack,” Text and Performance Quarterly 44, no. 1 (2024): 62-78
“The Manipulation of Mowgli: Performing Youth, Deconstructing Racialization, and Tracing Imperialism in The Jungle Book, edited by Selina Busby, Charlene Rajendran, and Kelly Freebody (Abingdon, Routledge: 2022), 69-83
“Questioning Social Justice: A Dialogue on Performance, Activism, and Being In-Between,” in The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance, edited by Ananda Breed and Tim Prentki, (Abingdon: Routledge, 2021), 185-192 [with Elena Velasco]
“Performing Islam on the International Pitch: Stretching Space and Turning Time in Men’s World Football,” Ecumenica 14, no. 1 (2021): 139-145
“Imagining Bradford: Islam, Space, and Anxiety in Multitudes and Combustion,” Theatre Journal 72, no. 3 (2020): 309-323
Special Issue Co-Editor, “Intersections, Institutions, and Inequities: Axes of Oppression in the Cultural Sector,” Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Equality and Diversity 6, no. 2 (2020) [with Roaa Ali]
“Ethnic and Racial Inequity in the Cultural Sector: Confront, Eradicate, Transcend,” Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Equality and Diversity 6, no. 2 (2020): 1-5 [with Roaa Ali]
“Exhaustion and Its Entanglements: Relational Ethos, Minoritarian Positionality, and These Political Times,” Intersections 29, no. 4 (2020)
“Entangling the British Muslim Woman: Satirizing Whiteness and Punking the State in Afsaneh Gray’s Octopus,” Contemporary Theatre Review 29, no. 4 (2019): 405-422
“Power and Privilege in Neoliberal Perspective: The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University,” Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance 24, no. 3 (2019): 267-283
"Between Theory and Practice: Tracing Improvisation with British Muslim Youth,” Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 33, no. 1 (2018): 51-65
“Improvisatory Peace Activism? Graffiti During and After Egypt’s Most Recent Revolution,” in The Routledge History of World Peace since 1750, edited by William Knoblauch, Michael Loadenthal, and Christian Petersen (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018), 208-226
"Encountering Generation (Wh)Y: Building Bridges through Student-Driven, Immersive, Interactive, and Technology-Based Devising,” Theatre Topics 27, no. 2 (2017): 109-122 [with Rob Jansen]
“Does Western Performance Give Voice?” Arts & International Affairs 2, no. 2 (2017): 72-73
“Jihad,” in The SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives (Vol. 2), edited by Paul Joseph (Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, 2016), 921-924
“Is There a Center to Hold? The Problem of Transition in Post-Qaddafi Libya,” in The African Renaissance and Afro-Arab Spring: A Season of Rebirth, edited by Charles Villa-Vicencio, Erik Doxtader, and Ebrahim Moosa (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2015), 71-83
“Conflict and Energy: A Metaphoric Symbiosis,” ACResolution Magazine, Spring (2015): 20-21
“Myriad Voices: A Cross-Cultural Performance Festival,” commissioned by The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics and the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Washington, DC (2015) [with Lily Kruglak, Areebah Ajani, and Amanda Andrei]
"Metaphors for Integration: A Cross-Cultural Approach," Integrative Pathways 36, no. 2 (2014): 6-9