Sinin Nakhle is a researcher, cartoon artist, and storyteller whose work lies at the intersection of bodies, digital platforms, and protest movements. He is an NWO-funded PhD candidate in Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam, supervised by Prof. Dr. Thomas Poell and Prof. Eliza Steinbock. His research theorizes techno-aesthetic translation to examine how dissident bodies in Lebanon traverse visual and infrastructural ecologies, assembling with images and distributed technologies to reconfigure the sensory and political conditions of protest and enact counter-carceral networks of refusal.

Previously, Nakhle completed his MA at Leiden University with the thesis "The Platformization of Queer Solidarity: Redefining Space in Post-Protest Lebanon" (cum laude) which received the third place LOVA Marjan Rens MA Thesis Award. In 2022, he coordinated the international conference Global Perspectives on Platforms & Cultural Production within the Global Digital Cultures research priority area, and later lectured in the course “Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Global Digital Cultures” at the University of Amsterdam. Nakhle has presented and moderated panels at major conferences, including the Annenberg School for Communication’s No Going Back: Global Communication and Post-Pandemic Politics (University of Pennsylvania) and BRISMES’ Proliferating Entanglements: Matter and Meaning in the Middle East (University of Lancaster). He has also been invited to deliver guest lectures at institutions around the world, including Maastricht University, King’s College London, the American University of Beirut, the University of Waterloo, and the University of Chicago on topics spanning transmedia storytelling, queer publics, embodied forms of resistance, and visual ethnography.

In his creative practice, Nakhle maintains Beirut By Dyke, a webcomic series on queer intimacy and trans embodiment, initially supported by the Prince Claus Fund and later taught as a case study in queer life writing and visual autobiography at universities including SOAS University of London, the American University of Beirut, the University of Chicago, and the University of Pennsylvania. His writings and performances have appeared in Christiane Amanpour’s CNN documentary on Sex and Love Around the World (Netflix), as well as Feminist Formations, nY, The Against Nature Journal, and Raseef22. He has also been invited to speak and perform at the Read My World Festival (Amsterdam), the International Queer & Migrant Film Festival (Amsterdam), and The Coast is Queer Festival (London). His book chapter, “Who Is It That You Love?”, was recently published in This Queer Arab Family (Saqi Books, 2025), edited by Elias Jahshan with a closing endorsement by Rabih Alameddine.