Her research focuses on global and transnational media, media development in conflict and post-conflict areas, democracy, and public sphere formation. In her upcoming book based on her multi-year ethnographic fieldwork in Central and South Asia, she analyzes the impact of international funding of media and cross border media flows on regional politics. Her work also investigates the politics of representation and visual culture of "The War On Terror" and "Afghan Women" and how they reverberate globally and locally in her native Afghanistan.