A writer and critic based in Beirut, she is a contributing editor for Bidoun, writes regularly for Artforum, and pens a column for Frieze. As a journalist, she has written for The New York Times, The Village Voice and The Times of London, among many other publications. As an essayist, she has contributed to anthologies, exhibition catalogues and journals (including Afterall, Art Journal and Camera Austria) on subjects ranging from video art, experimental music and public space in postwar Beirut to monographic texts on the work of Rabih Mroué, Walid Raad, Akram Zaatari, Saloua Raouda Choucair and Etel Adnan. She was a 2007 fellow in the Annenberg Getty Arts Journalism Program in Los Angeles and is a graduate of the American University of Beirut, Columbia University and the University of Virginia.