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I am Assistant Professor of Sociology at NMSU. My interdisciplinary research focuses on war, social movements, religious sectarianism, and political emotion both online and offline, combining sociological theory with computational methods and fieldwork, including research conducted in Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq, to examine how sect identities are constructed, mobilized, and transformed over time. I built an extensive online data collection around the Syrian civil war, comprising millions of tweets, Facebook posts, and news articles. My work employs innovative methodologies, including ethnography, discourse analysis, and digital data analysis to understand how sect identities manifest and are reproduced in daily life.

This line graph shows the classification of 34 Million tweets that included the word Syria in Arabic collected between 2011-2018.

This stack graph shows the classification of 34 Million tweets that included the word Syria in Arabic collected between 2011-2018.

To view the timeline in English use google translate extension in the browser

To view the timeline in English use google translate extension in the browser

The manual classification application developed using nodejs, mongodb, on Heroku cloud services to manually classify the training and testing datasets. This example uses posts and comments from Facebook data collected between 2011 and 2018.