Based on American court transcripts documenting the first Arab and Muslim naturalization cases, "To Catch a Terrorist" production stages these early 20th century documents for the first time, in juxtaposition to newly collected interviews with Arab and Muslim citizens attempting to cross borders, collapsing the historical distance between the past and today. The production explores how the “performance” of law creates categories of being, tiers of citizenship, and classes of humanity, and how empirical modes of propagating knowledge feeds into political practices of body control. Through dark humor, data-analysis-as-performance, and inquiries that range from interviews with travelers at borders to traces of exorcist rituals set to deconstructed classical Arabic music, "To Catch A Terrorist" investigates vision planes and visibility in relation to the emergence of non-Western subjects in public discourse.

In collaboration with Adham Hafez Company, Adam co-conceived the work, blurring the lines between performance and data analysis by digitally parsing court transcripts on-stage in a redefinition of lecture-performance.