Campaigns

Advocating for 100% affordable housing at 5 World Trade Center.

Opposed the relocation of Charging Bull from Bowling Green.

Advocating for a memorial to Arab-American literary heritage in Elizabeth Berger Plaza, Lower Manhattan.

Advocating for reimagined historical signs in Lower Manhattan that tell new histories based on current research.

Three-part documentary series exploring Ottoman immigration to the United States, produced with Bahcesehir University.

Advocating for transparency and reform in the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art program.

Advocating for an active preservation survey of the Lower West Side of Manhattan to protect historic buildings from rapid demolition.

Reviving Ameen Rihani's novel 'The Book of Khalid' (1911) and raising the cultural profile of Arab-American literature.

Publicizing the discovery of an early historical Ottoman mosque at 17 Rector Street in Lower Manhattan.

Critiquing the siting process for the Mayor's proposed new monuments.

Opposing the SoHo/NoHo rezoning without a vigorous individual landmarks survey.

Opposing subversion of zoning in the South Street Seaport historic district to allow a skyscraper by Howard Hughes Corporation.

Opposed the closure of St. Joseph's Maronite Chapel in Battery Park City.

Critiquing the method of including Sojourner Truth in the Central Park suffrage monument.

Seeking landmark designation for the Downtown Community House at 105-107 Washington Street.

Seeking scholarly rigor at the September 11 Memorial Museum and inclusion of Little Syria in its local history section.

Organizing walking tours of Little Syria, Ottoman New York, and religious site histories in Lower Manhattan.

Exposing fascist ideology in Yuga Labs and Bored Ape Yacht Club.