I’m a Lebanese-American journalist with bylines at Bloomberg, Scientific American, Nature, Science Magazine, PBS NewsHour, Vox, Reveal, Arizona Public Media, the Arizona Daily Star, and Courthouse News.

I am currently a senior reporter at Bloomberg in Washington, D.C. I cover air pollution and climate change for Bloomberg Law’s environment desk. I focus on environmental justice, regulations, and litigation.

Previously, I covered the law and culture of climate change in the District of Columbia for E&E News. You can find my author page here. Prior to that, I reported on Congress and the judiciary for Courthouse News after my time at PBS NewsHour as an online reporter and broadcast news assistant.

I completed dual master’s degrees in Journalism and Middle Eastern and North African Studies in 2017.

My master’s project, completed in April of 2017, culminated in a multimedia report highlighting four international border stories from the Middle East and North America. The project–called “Peripheries”–also featured 360 videos of each story, which were released in an interdisciplinary gallery exhibition at Exploded View Microcinema in Tucson, Ariz. on April 22, 2017 and again at Yavapai College Art Gallery Prescott, Ariz. from Jan-Feb 2019. Local coverage of the event can be found in Zócalo (page 14), the Tucson Weekly.

I received the University of Arizona School of Journalism awards for Top Graduate Student of the Year and Excellence in International Reporting for my work. Other grants and awards for the project came from the Arizona Press Club, the UA Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies and the Arts Foundation of Tucson and Southern Arizona.

I spent 2017 serving as president of the University of Arizona’s Online News Association, and completed an experiment measuring media effects of VR news, which was accepted for presentation at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s (AEJMC) 2017 conference in Chicago in the Electronic News division. I was also part of the reporting team for “Bordering 110,” a project which received first place in AEJMC’s Best of Web competition, and was also presented at the 2017 conference.