I am an independent scholar, editor, and seasonal translator. My current research focuses on environmental politics and food sovereignty in SWANA. I am formally trained as a political scientist (PhD, Yale University) but wish I wasn´t. In another life, I would be a geographer. In my other life, I write about knowledge production, (South) Lebanon, Palestine, and abolitionist pasts, presents, and futures. I am happiest translating Arabic literature into English, with a black cat on my lap. 

(And I spend many hours running a cat association in the mountains of Madrid.) 

julia[at]aboliship.org

Selected Works

Translations 

• https://thepublicsource.org/parallel-time-walid-daqqa 

• https://www.elsaltodiario.com/palestina/victoria-carcelero-legado-del-revolucionario-walid-daqqa (to Spanish)

• https://lithub.com/gaza-diaries-we-left-our-souls-at-home/ You can help support Heba and her family here. 

• https://arablit.org/2024/04/29/when-the-war-parts-a-poem-from-gaza-by-heba-al-agha/ 

• https://averyreview.com/issues/68/cartographies-of-home 

• https://arablit.org/2024/09/19/heba-al-aghas-free-poems-in-the-autumn/ 

• https://arablit.org/arablit-quarterly-majalla-28-spring-2024-gaza-gaza-gaza/ 

• https://arablit.org/2024/08/01/new-poetry-for-ismail-al-ghoul-and-rami-al-rifi/ 

• https://aljumhuriya.net/en/2021/12/08/to-samira-al-khalil-a-plant-blooms-in-the-dead-of-winter 

• https://www.wiko-berlin.de/en/wikotheque/koepfe-und-ideen/issue/17/brief-aus-berlin-17 

• https://thepublicsource.org/land-sovereign-fund-lebanon   

• Mohammad Al Attar [plays]

Damascus 2045 (2019)

The Factory (2018)

While I Was Waiting (2017)

Yusef was Here (2016)

Could You Please Look into the Camera? (2015)

Essays & Creative Writing

• https://arablit.org/2025/04/03/love-and-blindness-at-the-end-of-the-world/
  (Slovenian translation by Gabriela Babnik here). 

• https://arablit.org/to-anthony-shadid-to-our-houses-of-stone/ 

• https://thepublicsource.org/knowledge-production-palestine-solidarity

• https://www.tni.org/en/article/abolitionist-creativity 

• https://thepublicsource.org/what-oligarchy
  
  

Research Articles 

• https://lawreview.law.pitt.edu/ojs/lawreview/article/view/1054 

• https://thepublicsource.org/lebanon-solar-privatization 

• https://www.arab-reform.net/publication/environmental-struggle-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa-a-research-agenda/ 

• https://www.arab-reform.net/publication/lebanons-environmentalists-and-the-fight-for-nature-reflecting-on-successes-and-failures-of-recent-mobilizations/

• https://www.arab-reform.net/publication/mobilizing-for-the-environment-in-iraq/ 

• https://www.arab-reform.net/publication/a-slice-of-knafeh-for-everyone-a-critical-introduction-to-universal-basic-income-in-mena/
  
  

Editorial Work

• https://thepublicsource.org/contributors/julia-choucair-vizoso

• https://www.arab-reform.net/publication/environmental-politics-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa-proceedings-from-first-inaugural-conference/