Food + Garden

Projects encompassing cooking, learning from plants, photography, composting, fermentation, and growing.

Jordanian Olive Harvest, Practices + Documentation, 2024
Grief as a Grapevine, reading at LAX Micro Fest, 2025
Fermentation projects
Heirloom okra grown in 2024
Early figs + fig leaves collected
Artichokes grown and preserved
Communal meals

Yimkin: Palestinian Family Recipe Archive

A recipe book archive of my Palestinian family’s traces, dislocations, and memories in ingredients; of emotional eating and bittersweetness; of food as a translator and cooking as practice for everything else. I’ve collected around 140 of my recipes, and my family’s recipes, that have been cooked over our three generations of being displaced from Palestine.

Inherited and altered recipes are used as evidence of Palestinian survival, grief, and world-making. In every recipe, there are presences, absences, threads of what has made it to me, and negative space that admits to my family’s removal. Every meal we make holds our celebrations, separations, longings, and care.

Visit the Yimkin website here for more information.

My mom’s recipe binder, started in the 1990’s
Family pictured eating outdoors, Saudi Arabia, 1950’s
Labneh + walnut dip
Calrose rice, a household staple
Family wedding celebration with croquembouche, Saudi Arabia, 1990’s
My dad’s falafel press

Brand Design

Projects in print and digital design, packaging design, university guest lectures, and art direction.

Print + digital design for Studio Matter, 2023
Sumac Chili Oil labels, 2024
Color theory guest lectures, Oregon State University, quarterly 2019 - 2020
Apogee Candle Co. branding and creative direction, 2020

Architectural Graphics + Research

Graphics, research, and presentation design for spec and professional projects. Mass timber research peer-reviewed and published in Architectural Engineering and Design Management.

Emergent Work/Play, architectural capstone project, 2020
Urban planning research for suburban densification presented in Gresham, OR, 2019
Mass timber detailing research + publication, 2019
Graphics for studio projects, 2018
Facadeventilation and windscreen research, 2017