In 2006, I started to develop an active interest in programming and curation. After being invited onto the programming committee of the San Francisco Arab Film Festival in 2006, I assisted with selection, writing program notes, and doing introductions for  the 2007 and 2008 editions of the festival. In 2008, I programmed a selection of video works that played at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and the Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley.

Since that time I have further developed my curation activities in relation to research projects. In 2008, I worked with the New Zealand Film Archive (now Ngā Tāonga Sound and Vision) to bring back the film The Seekers (1954) for public screening. Details of this program can be found on the “Special Programs” page.

In 2013, I curated a series of films by Moroccan filmmaker Moumen Smihi. The series was launched at the Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley and was programmed to coincide with a symposium that I co-directed at UC Santa Cruz, “Unfixed Itineraries: Film and Visual Culture from Arab Worlds.” More information on each program can be found in “Moumen Smihi Retrospective” and “Special Programs.”