I joined the University of Exeter as Lecturer in World and Postcolonial Literatures in September 2022. Before that, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World at the University of Edinburgh in 2021-2022. I did my doctoral research at the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. 

My research is focused on the literary and cultural implications of migration to the Arab Gulf States. I am interested in how experiences of migration for work in the Gulf as well as experiences of exclusion and belonging amongst long-term multi-generational migrant communities are tackled in works of literature and popular culture. I am also interested in how Gulf spaces are imagined and depicted by migrant writers. I work on Arabic fiction as well as fiction published in English or available in translation.