Bayan AlAmmouri's upcoming book, The Techfugees, will be published with Bloomsbury Publications in 2026. The book examines how refugees navigate, resist, and reshape digital technologies, highlighting the ways mental and geographic mapping, mobility, and identity intersect under conditions of displacement. Through this work, AlAmmouri offers a fresh contribution to contemporary debates on datafication, refugee experience, and the politics of technology.
Professor Mohammad AlAbbas recently participated in the Radical Traditions: The Role of Contemporary Arab Women in Revolutionising Arab Patriarchal Society conference held in Warwick.
The contributions in this interdisciplinary international conference will be the basis for an edited collection to be published in the Warwick Humanities Series with Routledge, which will seek to explore literary, visual, artistic, political, social, online, translational, and Sufi responses of contemporary Arab women to multiple forms of patriarchy and oppression within Arab societies. It will examine how forms of violence and discrimination intersect and reinforce each other.
The Conference brought together scholars, writers, artists, filmmakers, translators, and activists who reflected upon, analyzed, and celebrated the diverse works of contemporary Arab women revolutionaries, who have played immense roles in challenging prevailing patriarchal notions of gender, sexuality, identity, colonization, war, translation, and Sufism from the 1970s onwards. By offering nuanced, culturally grounded insights into the radical traditions and feminist thought of contemporary Arab women from multiple angles.
Professor Hazem Hiary has supervised multiple undergraduate and graduate projects, including MA theses, focusing on computational technologies, image processing, and digital methodologies. His guidance has helped students explore innovative ways to analyze, visualize, and manipulate digital and spatial data, fostering skills that align closely with our group's research on mapping, digital representation, and the intersection of technology and human experience. Similarly, Professor Mohammad AlAbbas has supervised numerous artistic projects at both BA and MA levels, guiding students in creative practices that engage with visual culture, digital media, and spatial expression. Together, the supervisions of Professors Hiary and AlAbbas have contributed to cultivating a cohort of students whose work echoes our research group's focus on countermapping, technology, and the representation of place, memory, and identity.
Dr. Lindsey Moore also supervises both MA and PhD students at Lancaster University, guiding research on narrative cartographies, postcolonial studies, and the ways stories and spatial representations intersect. Her mentorship cultivates advanced scholarship that complements our group's focus on mapping, memory, and the politics of space. Similarly, Dr. Mohammed Hamdan supervises MA students at An-Najah National University on projects closely related to our research themes, including countermapping, spatial narratives, and the intersections of identity and place. Through their guidance, both Dr. Moore and Dr. Hamdan contribute to developing a network of emerging scholars whose work resonates directly with the objectives and methodologies of our research group.
Dr. Lindsey Moore recently co-authored Global Arab Fiction (2025) with Nadia Atia. This book is a part of Routledge's Twenty-first Century Global Literature series (2025). The book contextualizes the rise of post-millennial Arab literatures in the Anglosphere. It explores the politics of translation, circulation, and reception, in chapters on the international literary prize economy, violence, global labour and forced migration, sexuality, and speculative fiction.