I am Lecturer at Utrecht University and Researcher at the University of Oslo. I am a scholar of comparative literature and environmental humanities, focusing on how environmental destruction is depicted in speculative fiction, film, and visual arts from the Middle East and its Anglophone diasporas. My work involves Arabic, Turkish, and Anglophone sources addressing climate change, extractivism, extinction, and environmental justice. I critically engage with the discourse of the Anthropocene, showing how cultural production in the Middle East challenges and redefines universalist views of the term.