Digital Data Gathering & Changing Ways of Knowing II: Social Media Afterlives

Has over 10 years of experience as an academic and corporate researcher focusing on technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Holds a doctorate in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University, an MA in Sociology from The American University in Cairo, and a BE in Computer Engineering from Cairo University. Previously founded the Media Ethnography Lab at The Center for Advanced Research in Global Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and led research at Duke's Department of Cultural Anthropology. Has taught undergraduate and graduate seminars on global economies, creative industries, and qualitative research at Duke University, Bryn Mawr College, University of the Arts, and George Washington University.

Assistant Professor at HBKU. His research focuses on disinformation on social media in the Middle East. Received his PhD in 2016 from Durham University, where he wrote an interdisciplinary thesis on the history of political repression in Bahrain — winning the 2016 AGAPS prize. Author of Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst/OUP, 2021) and a monograph on political repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press). Has bylines in the Washington Post, New Statesman, CNN, the Independent, and PEN International, and has appeared on the BBC, Channel 4 News, and Al Jazeera.

Social anthropologist and British Academy Newton International Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Research focuses on the impact of state violence on intimate and gendered lives, the politics of death and the afterlife, and the intersections of affect and politics. Specializes in the anthropology of the Kurdish regions and modern Turkey. Previously a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Middle East and North Africa Research Group at Ghent University. Her work has been published in Comparative Studies in Society and History, the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Society, and Social Anthropology.