Her scholarship addresses contemporary cultural and technological transformations in the Arab world and especially Palestine-Israel and their relationship to political and spatial changes. She has published on Arab and Palestinian internet and broadcasting, cinema, video games, ID cards, checkpoints, and cultural/political spaces of resistance, and is currently finishing a book, Digital Occupation, on communication infrastructures in Palestine-Israel. Helga is reviews editor of the Journal of Middle East Culture and Communication, as well as a photographer and documentary film-maker.