[invited]

Visual Conflict of and in Palestine-Israel. History of Art and Visual Culture & Film and Digital Media Colloquium, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA [march 2012]

Social Media and the ‘Arab Spring’. Faculty and Course Development in International Studies, Department of Political Science, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV [november 2011]

From Digital Occupation to Digital Revolution? Keynote Speaker. Global Fusion: A Global Media and Communication Conference, Philadelphia, PA.[october 2011]

Media Infrastructures in the Middle East: From Digital Occupation to Digital Revolution? New Marxist Perspectives on Communication and Social Transformation, Fudan University, Shanghai, China [may 2011]

The Political-Economy Behind Arab Media Revolutions. The Dubai Initiative and The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, The John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, MA [april 2011]

Egypt Rising: A Discussion of the Egyptian Political Crisis. Institute for Public Knowledge and Hagop Kevorkian Center, NYU, NY [february 2011]

Exploring Identity and Social History Through a Palestinian Lens. Dreams of A Nation: A Palestinian Film Festival, Columbia University, NY [february 2011]

Colored Identity: The Politics and Materiality of ID Cards in Palestine/Israel. Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, NYU, NY [february 2011]

Israeli Air Power. Radars and Fences 3 Conference, NYU. New York, NY [march 2010]

The Media(tion) of Palestinian ID Cards.” Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK; and London Middle East Institute and School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, London, UK [february 2010]

Alternative Palestinian Media. Communication and Media Research Institute & Centre for Research in Education, Art and Media, Westminster University, London, UK [february 2010]

Israeli Air Power: Media Technologies in Times of War. Middle East Centre, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK [february 2010]

New Media Technologies in the Arab World: Prospects and Perils for Economic and Political Transformations. Transnational Popular Culture Industries Symposium, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL [october 2007]

We See Iraq Everyday on the News, But Can We Place it on a Map? Understanding Others Through Popular Culture Teachers Workshop, Urbana-Champaign, IL [october 2007]

Internet in the Absence of a State: On-line Realities in the Palestinian Territories. Beyond Media Censorship: Speech and the State in the Middle East, Center for Global Communication Studies, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, PA [april 2007]

Checkpoints: On the Margins, New Centers of Palestinian Life. The Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia [september 2006]

Urbanizing Under Surveillance: The Transformation of Checkpoints into Centers. War and Middle East Cities, Center for Metropolitan Studies, NYU, NY [april 2006]

45 Stations All Tuned to Al-Jazeera: Fragmented Palestinian Television. The Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North African and Central Asia, Princeton University, NJ [december 2005]

[reviewed academic conferences]

From Digital Occupation to Digital Revolution? Media Infrastructures as Borders.‘Shifting Borders’: America and the Middle East/North Africa, Center for American Studies and Research, American University of Beirut, Lebanon [january 2012]

‘New’ Arab Media and Shifting Spatialities. Middle East Studies Association (MESA), Washington, DC [november 2011]

The Digital Enclosure of Palestinians. EastBordNet ‘Remaking Borders’, Catania, Italy [january 2011]

The Hi-Tech Enclosure of Gaza. Gaza: Out of the Margins, Birzeit University, Birzeit, Palestinian Territories [october 2010]

Preserving and Creating a Digital Palestine? World Congress for Middle East Studies (WOCMES), Barcelona, Spain [july 2010]

Virtually Mapping Palestinian Dis-/Re-Appearances. AAG, Washington, DC [april 2010]

The Digital Enclosure of Palestine? AAG, Washington, DC [april 2010]

Mapping ‘Palestine’. Conference on Mapping, Memory and the City. School of Architecture, School of Communication and Media, University of Liverpool. Liverpool, UK [february 2010]

Préserver et créer une nation numérique: les archives Palestiniennes sur Internet. Les archives, la société et les sciences humaines, Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Nationales Economiques et Sociales de Tunisie. Tunis, Tunisia [february 2010]

Theorizing Arab Media Activism and Resistance. MESA, Boston, MA [november 2009]

Orange, Green, and Blue: Color-Coded Paperwork for Palestinian Population Control. The New Transparency Workshop on States of Exception, Surveillance and Population Management: The Case of Israel-Palestine. Larnaca, Cyprus [december 2008]

The In/Visible Politics of Arab Film. MESA, Washington, DC [november 2008]

Building Arab Information States: A Critique of the World Economic Forum’s Education Initiatives in Jordan, Egypt and the Palestinian Territories. IAMCR, Paris, France [july 2007]

Arab TV Screens’ Challenges to Modernity and Modernization. IAMCR, Paris, France [july 2007]

The Networked ‘Terrorists’: History and Analysis of Pro-Arab Video Games. International Communication Association (ICA), San Francisco, CA [may 2007]

Crossroads of Competing Narratives: Trends in Palestinian Film-Making. Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), Chicago, IL [march 2007]

From the Enemy’s Perspective: An Analysis of Pro-Arab Video Games. SCMS, Chicago, IL [march 2007]

IT Development and the Rise of Hamas: Both Facets of The Failure of Western Aid? MESA, Boston, MA [november 2006]

The Rise of a Different Clash? New Arab Media and Islamic Traditions. Internationalising Media Studies: Imperatives and Impediments, University of Westminster, London, UK [september 2006]

The Internet in Palestine: The Contradictions of Western Economic Development and the Rise of Islamic Movements. Association for Internet Researchers (AoIR), Brisbane, Australia [september 2006]

Americanizing Palestine through Internet Development. Internationalizing Internet Studies, Brisbane, Australia [september 2006]

[other]

Queer/Palestinian: Critical Strategies in Palestinian Queer/Women's Filmmaking. Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies; DMCC; Yale University; The Center for Media, Culture and History. NYU, NY [october 2011]

Going Home: Israeli and Palestinian Homeland Narratives. The Public Theater, New York, NY[april 2011]

Media in the Arab World and In The Public Eye: Media and Civil Society in the Arab World. A Conference on Education, Media, and Human Development, NYU Abu Dhabi Institute and NYU Steinhardt, Abu Dhabi, UAE [january 2009]

Teaching a Media Core. Collective Communications Campus, Columbia University, NY [december 2008]