Clojure, C#, JavaScript, C, C++, Objective-C, Ruby, PHP, Python, Java, XML, XHTML/CSS, ActionScript 3, SQL, Processing, Bash, LaTeX, Haskell, Prolog
Unity 3D, Apache, MySQL, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Blender, SketchUp, sqlite, QLab, lighthttpd
- Modded Wolfenstein 3-D to parody new-found nervousness over anti-fascist violence
- Dialogue 3-D was an IndieCade 2017 Official Selection
- Press coverage included The Verge, Kotaku, PC Gamer, and Polygon
- Founded language-agnostic programming collective with creative coders across New York City focused on performative live coding
- Host bi-weekly meetings to share tools, insights, and experiences
- Organize monthly concerts, parties, and workshops around livecoded music and visuals
- Run a free afterschool workshop for highschool age students from underrepresented populations in New York City interested in electronics, fashion design, game design, and coding
- Develop curriculum, run workshops in person, train teachers, and write grants
- Train educators and librarians across the USA to run workshops with our content
- Playable Fashion is a collaboration with Kaho Abe and is supported by Eyebeam Art and Technology Center
- Integrating a new programming language to a proprietary game engine
- Exploring the implication of live functional programming on game design and development
- Supporting an active community of users as they learn the tool and collaborate together
- Conference appearances include Strange Loop, CodeMesg, LispNYC, and clojure/west
- Arcadia is a collaboration with Tims Gardner and the Arcadia community
- Designed and implemented a programming language entirely in Arabic as part of my Eyebeam fellowship exploring code as a medium of self expression
- Interrogated the impact of human culture on programming languages and the nature of a "learnable" language
- Built accompanying traditional calligraphic mosaic pieces depicting قلب source code
- Press coverage included The Verge, The Register, mic.com, New Scientist, and Animal New York
- قلب has been shown at Eyebeam and Babycastles, and was included in the third ELO Electronic Literature Collection.
- Designed unique physical game that uses hacked Atari 2600 controllers and strap-on harnesses to force players into awkward semi-sexual contact
- IndieCade 2012 Official Selection, Winner "Best Spectacle" at Come Out and Play 2012
- Press coverage included indiegames.com, The Escapist, Random Encounter!, and Kotaku
- Swordfight was a collaboration with Kurt Bieg
- Resident at CultureHub/La Mama Theater 2017
- Resident at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council 2014
- Fellow at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center 2012 – 2013
- Resident at Karaj Beirut 2011
- General Assembly Web Development Immersive 2017
- New York University Tandon School of Engineering Integrated Digital Media 2015 - Present
- School for Poetic Computation 2014 - Present
- Parsons The New School for Design MFA Design and Technology 2014 - Present
- New York University Interactive Telecommunications Program 2014
- Pratt Digital Design and Animation 2013
- Eyebeam Playable Fashion 2013 - Present
- M.F.A., Design & Technology – Parsons The New School for Design
- B.S., Computer Science – American University of Beirut
- I.B. Diploma – American Community School of Beirut
Fluent English and Arabic, Embarrassing French
Motorcycling, photography, musical theater, world cup football, oriental percussion, jazz, architecture, fine cheeses, and recreational mathematics