Journal Articles:

“Interrogating the Limits of Humanitarian Art: The Uncomfortable Invitations of Ai Weiwei.” Transnational Screens, vol. 13, no. 2 (2022). DOI: 10.1080/25785273.2022.2094613

“Introduction: Waste.” Spectator, vol. 42, no. 2 (Fall 2022): 5-8.

“Virtually Wandering the Migration Trail.” Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, vol. 61, no. 3 (Spring 2022): 183-188. Co-authored with Emma Ben Ayoun. DOI: 10.1353/cj.2022.0032

“Introduction: Humanitarian Immersions.” Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, vol. 61, no. 3 (Spring 2022): 154-159. Co-authored with Emma Ben Ayoun. DOI: 10.1353/cj.2022.0028

“Secrets, Surveillance, and Fragments: Some Contemporary Documentary Challenges to Post-Socialist Europe’s Regional Brand.” Apertúra: Film, Visuality, Theory. (Fall 2021). DOI: 10.31176/apertura.2021.17.1.14

“Titkok, megfigyelés és töredékek: a kortárs dokumentumfilmek a posztszocialista Európa regionális brandjére vonatkozó kihívásai.” Translated by Anikó Németh. Apertúra: Film, Visuality, Theory. (Fall 2021). DOI: 10.31176/apertura.2021.17.1.7

“Family B/orders: Hungary’s Campaign for the ‘Family Protection Action Plan.’” Feminist Media Studies, vol. 20, no. 2 (2020): 305-309, DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2020.1720352

“On Bodily Absence in Humanitarian Multi-sensory VR.” Intermédialités: Historie et Théorie des Arts, des Lettres et des Techniques (Intermediality: History and Theory of the Arts, Literature, and Technologies), no. 34 (2019). Co-authored with Emma Ben Ayoun. DOI: 10.7202/1070876ar

“Digital Transience: Emplacement and Authorship in Refugee Selfies.” Media Fields Journal, no. 12 (2017): www.mediafieldsjournal.org/digital-transience/

“On the Fringe: Understanding Alternative and Subversive Media - Notes from the Editors.” Spectator, vol. 37, no. 1 (2017): 5-10. Co-authored with Emma Ben Ayoun. cinema.usc.edu/spectator/37.1/1_Zimanyi.pdf

“Frames and fragments of European migration.” Transnational Cinemas, vol. 7, no. 2 (2016): 118-134. Co-authored with Anikó Imre. DOI: 10.1080/20403526.2016.1217638

Book Chapters

“Images on the Move: Close Reading Migrant and Refugee Authored Media Online.” Reading Media: How to Do Textual Analysis. Edited by Jonathan Gray and Daphne Gershon. New York University Press, 2026.

“Selfies.” TheSAGE Encyclopedia on Critical Refugee Studies. Edited by Yen Le Espiritu. SAGE Publications, 2025.
https://doi.org/10.4135/9781071919422

“Orban Wallace’s Another News Story: Media Coverage of the “Migrant Crisis” in Europe.” Teaching Migration in Literature, Film and Media. Edited by Masha Salazkina and Yumna Siddiqi. Modern Language Association of America, 2025.

Edited Journals:

Waste. Special themed issue of Spectator, vol. 42, no.2 (Fall 2022).

Humanitarian Immersions. In Focus Dossier for Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, vol. 61, no. 3 (Spring 2022). Co-edited with Emma Ben Ayoun. muse.jhu.edu/issue/47754

On the Fringe: Understanding Alternative and Subversive Media. Special themed issue of Spectator, vol. 37, no. 1 (Spring 2017).
Co-edited with Emma Ben Ayoun. cinema.usc.edu/mediastudies/spectator/37.1spring2017.cfm

Film Criticism and Reviews:

Book Review - Arts of the Border: Fugitive Bodies at Europe’s Edges by Debarati Sanyal. L’Esprit Createur, vol. 66, no. 2 (2026): 178. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/esp.2026.a996655

Book Review - The Right Kind of Suffering: Gender, Sexuality and Arab Asylum Seekers in America by Rhoda Kanaaneh. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 1-3. DOI: 10.1017/S0020743823001228

“Human Flow: Thinking with and through Ai Weiwei’s Defamiliarizing Gaze.” Visual Anthropology, vol. 32, no. 3-4 (2019): 377-379, DOI: 10.1080/08949468.2019.1637691

“The Production of Crisis: Ai Weiwei’s Human Flow.” Docalogue, July 1st, 2018. www.docalogue.com/july-human-flow/

“Seeing ‘Through’ the Wall: Palestine’s Al-Rowwad Outdoor Film Festival.” In Media Res. March 21st, 2016, mediacommons.futureofthebook.org

“Histories Absolved: Revolutionary Cuban Poster Art and the Muslim International,” Enclave Review, Issue 12 (Spring 2015): 11-12. enclavereview.org/histories-absolved-revolutionary-cuban-poster-art-and-the-muslim-international/

Interviews:

Interview by Eszter Zimanyi. “A conversation with filmmaker Iva Radivojević.” Avenue of the Living, ed. Iva Radivojević (Big black mountain the darkness never comes press: Athens, Greece, 2023).

“Against Immersion: An Interview with Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz.” Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, vol 61, no. 3 (Spring 2022): 189-194. Interview by Eszter Zimanyi and Emma Ben Ayoun. DOI: 10.1353/cj.2022.0033

“‘I set out to do everything I could to bring this idea to fruition’: Leila Jarman reflects on directing her first feature length documentary, Voice of the Valley.” Spectator 37, no. 1 (Spring 2017): 53-59. cinema.usc.edu/spectator/37.1/8_Zimanyi.pdf

“Loeterman’s Documentary on Palestine (1913): Seeds of Conflict.” Interview with Ben Loeterman and Elisha Baskin. Jadaliyya. October 9th, 2015. www.jadaliyya.com/Details/32565/Loeterman’s-Documentary-on Palestine-1913-Seeds-of-Conflict