WRITING

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles

  • Adely, Tariq. 2026. "It doesn’t give a s*** about Arabic or English’: Labor Inequities, Semiotic Ideologies, and Practices of Demarcation among LLM Engineers in Amman." Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 36(1):e70039. https://doi.org/10.1111/jola.70039. [LINK]

Book Chapters

  • "The Language of AI: On the Work of Metaphor and Metapragmatics in Making Artificial Intelligence." In Handbook on Anthropology and Artificial Intelligence, edited by Sahana Udupa, Michiel Baas, and Peter Hervik. London: Edward Elgar Publishing. [Forthcoming]

Public-Facing Articles

  • Proctor, Devin, and Tariq Adely. 2021. "Care by Emoji.” Anthropology News, June 23. [LINK]

Book Reviews

  • “Code Work: Hacking across the US/México Techno-Borderlands by Héctor Beltrán (Book Review).” 2025. Anthropological Quarterly 98(1): 227-232 [LINK]

Other Writing

My master's thesis, Literary Infrastructure: The Production, Circulation, and Consumption of Jordan, is available open access through the Georgetown University Library. [LINK]


Previous journalistic writing and translations can be found in the archives of Syria Direct [LINK]. For selected reports and interviews, see:


  • "Kurdish residents in Syria's north find linguistic freedom after decades of state suppression." Co-authored with Mohammad Abdulssattar Ibrahim & Ammar Hamou. Syria Direct. 29 November 2017. [LINK]
  • "'The first obstacle to any talk of reconstruction is return,' says AlHakam Shaar of the Aleppo Project." Syria Direct. 19 April 2018. [LINK]
  • "Writing in exile, Syrian author's tales confront human 'contradiction, complexity, madness'." Co-authored with Sama Mohammed. Syria Direct. 31 July 2017. [LINK]
  • "The Philosopher: Iconic Syrian academic on freedom, oppression and the origins of the war." Co-authored with Ghardinia Ashour. Syria Direct. 21 June 2017. [LINK]
  • "As humanitarian provisions in sanctions fail to function, Syria's cancer patients face treatment crisis." Co-authored with Sarah Abaid & Bahira al-Zarier. Syria Direct. 2 February 2017. [LINK]