Her research focuses on contemporary Arabic literature, diaspora and sexuality studies, as well as transnational and Islamic feminism(s). She published several articles in Journal of Arabic Literature, Women’s Studies International Forum, Alif Journal of Comparative Poetics, and MappingArab Women’s Movements edited collection. Co-editor (with Tarek El-Ariss) of an IJMES special issue “Queer Affects,” 45:2, 2013, and author of a forthcoming book Anxiety of Erasure: Trauma, Authorship, and the Diaspora in Arab Women’s Writings. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, (forthcoming).