Helga Tawil-Souri

Helga’s work deals with spatiality, technology, infrastructure, and politics in the Middle East, with a particular focus on contemporary Palestine. Much of her published academic work has been about Palestinian im/mobility and infrastructure, which has taken checkpoints, mobile phones and internet, film, and questions of borders and space as its focal points. She has also written about Arab media, identification cards, surveillance, video games, and other topics. She is co-editor with Dina Matar of Gaza As Metaphor (Hurst, 2016), and Producing Palestine: The Creative Production of Palestine Through Contemporary Media (I.B. Tauris, 2024) and currently serves on the board of Social Text , Public Culture, and Journal of Environmental Media.