I was born in the US to an Egyptian mother and American father. I enjoyed an unorthodox, and rather nomadic upbringing in a family that values stories, adventure, and curiosity. My brothers and I grew up trilingual and tricultural, travelling constantly between France, Egypt, and the US. We explored museums, clambered around temples and medieval villages, and became comfortable in new environments both cultural and natural. My parents enrolled me in a Waldorf School, which encouraged my early interest in mythology, folklore, stories, art, nature, history, ritual and animist ways of viewing the world.

My parents supported me in these interests, seeking out books and stories for me and teaching me how to interact with the landscape around me, whether that was navigating a dense forest or the chaotic Khan El-Khalili Bazaar. This primed me for a career spent studying Norse and Celtic mythology, literature, language, and culture. It also instilled me with a proclivity for incessant travel. After earning bachelor's degrees in French and Humanities and a Minor in Nordic Studies at CU Boulder where I studied under Dr Mathias Nordvig, I earned a master’s in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic from the University of Cambridge, followed by a second master’s in Celtic Studies from the University of Glasgow where I am currently a PhD researcher in Celtic and Gaelic. 

I am currently a researcher pursuing a PhD at the University of Glasgow’s Celtic and Gaelic department. I work closely with textual and material evidence to explore the culture hybridity driven by the Viking Age in what is now Great Britain and Ireland. When I am not researching or in the field, I am travelling to give talks, tell stories, perform ritual, and attend events. I have been involved in ritual storytelling in the US, UK, and Scandinavia since 2018, collaborating with many others in my field to reinvigorate old knowledge systems and re-enchant our world. My extra-curricular work is informed by my academic research in fields spanning the French Philosophy and Romanticism of my undergrad years to my current interest in Norse and Celtic myth and literature and dipping into recent scholarship on indigenous thinking and animism. My most recent works and collaborations include performing Eddic poetry, telling stories of the Mabinogi, and speaking on the importance of cultivating reciprocal relationships in a transactional world.