Recent Foreign Policy and National Security Reporting
The Price of Power: A Profile of Samantha Power, New York Magazine (October 4, 2024).
How Biden Boxed Himself In on Gaza, The American Prospect (April 2024).
The State Department Is Still Pale, Male, and Yale, The New Republic (March 2024).
How the War Has Transformed Ukraine, and Zelensky, The Washington Post (February 2, 2024).
I Crashed Henry Kissinger’s 100th-Birthday Party, New York Magazine (June 8, 2023).
How Saudi Money Returned to Silicon Valley, Vox (May 1, 2023).
Inside the Chaos at Washington’s Most Connected Military Tech Startup, Recode (December 14, 2022).
A Ukrainian Embassy Reception, Sponsored by America’s Biggest Weapons Makers, Vox (December 6, 2022).
Investigative Features in The American Prospect
How Biden’s Foreign-Policy Team Got Rich, The American Prospect (July/August 2020).
The Lucrative Afterlife of a Trump Official, The American Prospect (November/December 2020).
Silicon Valley Takes the Battlespace, The American Prospect (January/February 2021).
Burying the Evidence, The American Prospect (November/December 2021)
The Price of Power: A Profile of Samantha Power, New York Magazine (October 4, 2024).
How Biden Boxed Himself In on Gaza, The American Prospect (April 2024).
The State Department Is Still Pale, Male, and Yale, The New Republic (March 2024).
How the War Has Transformed Ukraine, and Zelensky, The Washington Post (February 2, 2024).
I Crashed Henry Kissinger’s 100th-Birthday Party, New York Magazine (June 8, 2023).
How Saudi Money Returned to Silicon Valley, Vox (May 1, 2023).
Inside the Chaos at Washington’s Most Connected Military Tech Startup, Recode (December 14, 2022).
A Ukrainian Embassy Reception, Sponsored by America’s Biggest Weapons Makers, Vox (December 6, 2022).
Investigative Features in The American Prospect
How Biden’s Foreign-Policy Team Got Rich, The American Prospect (July/August 2020).
The Lucrative Afterlife of a Trump Official, The American Prospect (November/December 2020).
Silicon Valley Takes the Battlespace, The American Prospect (January/February 2021).
Burying the Evidence, The American Prospect (November/December 2021)
On Arab Comics
What Egyptians Wish For, The Washington Post (January 2023).
Mad Magazines: Underground Comics Come to Egypt, Harper's Magazine (March 2016).
On the Arab Page: Between Fine and Comic Art, Le Monde diplomatique (January 2017).
The Offending Art: Political Cartooning after the Charlie Hebdo Attacks, Nieman Reports (Winter 2015).
War, Romance, and Everyday Life in Beirut’s Emerging Alt-Comix Scene, Atlas Obscura (September 9, 2019).
The Gulf Crisis, as Told Through Cartoons, The Atlantic (July 31, 2017).
Punch Me Up, Punch Me Down, Guernica (May 5, 2015).
Egypt’s Cartoonists, After Charlie Hebdo, New York Magazine (February 1, 2015).
The Dangerous Lives of Cartoonists, Guernica (January 15, 2015).
Drawing While the Hand Trembles, Foreign Policy (January 14, 2015).
Picturing Egypt’s Next President, The New Yorker (May 22, 2014).
Gallows Humor: Political Satire in Sisi’s Egypt, Guernica (May 15, 2014).
Under Morsi, Red Lines Gone Gray, Jadaliyya (September 24, 2013).
Egypt’s Fault Lines and its Cartoons, The New Yorker (July 9, 2013).
A Year of Drawing Morsi, The New Yorker (June 29, 2013).
On Art, Literature, and Culture
What We Can Learn From Two Israel-Palestine Bestsellers, The Guardian (November 13, 2023).
The Case of the Arabic Noirs, The Paris Review (August 20, 2014).
Inside the Strange Saga of a Cairo Novelist Imprisoned for Obscenity, Rolling Stone (February 24, 2017).
Mostafa el-Abbadi, 88, Historian of Ancient World Who Led Alexandria Library’s Revival, New York Times (March 4, 2017).
Qatar: The Shape of Tomorrow, Modern Painters (June/July 2016).
An Interview with Adonis, New York Review of Books (April 16, 2016).
Plight of an Arab Intellectual: Interview with Sonallah Ibrahim, Cairo Review of Global Affairs (Spring 2017).
The Double Game of Egyptian Surrealism, Los Angeles Review of Books (April 17, 2017).
The Arab Whodunnit: Crime Fiction Makes a Comeback in the Middle East, The Guardian, (October 3, 2014).
Chapters in Books
“After the Protest Movement,” The Protest and the Recuperation eds. Betti-Sue Hertz and Sreshta Rit Premnath (New York: The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, 2021).
“The Unsung Hero of Arab Comics,” The Fifth Annual Mahmoud Kahil Arab Comics Award (Beirut: American University of Beirut Press, 2020).
“En Première ligne: La Bande dessinée à l’heure du monde arabe,” La Nouvelle bande dessinée arabe ed. Shennawy (Paris: Actes Sud BD, 2018).
“Speech Bubbles: Comics and Political Cartoons in Sisi’s Egypt,” Arab Politics beyond the Uprisings: Experiments in an Era of Resurgent Authoritarianism eds. Thanassis Cambanis and Michael Wahid Hanna (Washington DC: The Century Foundation Press, 2017).
Rapport sur la situation des dessinateurs de presse dans le monde (Paris: Cartooning for Peace, 2017).
“Translating Egypt’s Political Cartoons,” Translating Dissent: Voices from and with the Egyptian Revolution ed. Mona Baker (New York: Routledge, 2016).
What Egyptians Wish For, The Washington Post (January 2023).
Mad Magazines: Underground Comics Come to Egypt, Harper's Magazine (March 2016).
On the Arab Page: Between Fine and Comic Art, Le Monde diplomatique (January 2017).
The Offending Art: Political Cartooning after the Charlie Hebdo Attacks, Nieman Reports (Winter 2015).
War, Romance, and Everyday Life in Beirut’s Emerging Alt-Comix Scene, Atlas Obscura (September 9, 2019).
The Gulf Crisis, as Told Through Cartoons, The Atlantic (July 31, 2017).
Punch Me Up, Punch Me Down, Guernica (May 5, 2015).
Egypt’s Cartoonists, After Charlie Hebdo, New York Magazine (February 1, 2015).
The Dangerous Lives of Cartoonists, Guernica (January 15, 2015).
Drawing While the Hand Trembles, Foreign Policy (January 14, 2015).
Picturing Egypt’s Next President, The New Yorker (May 22, 2014).
Gallows Humor: Political Satire in Sisi’s Egypt, Guernica (May 15, 2014).
Under Morsi, Red Lines Gone Gray, Jadaliyya (September 24, 2013).
Egypt’s Fault Lines and its Cartoons, The New Yorker (July 9, 2013).
A Year of Drawing Morsi, The New Yorker (June 29, 2013).
On Art, Literature, and Culture
What We Can Learn From Two Israel-Palestine Bestsellers, The Guardian (November 13, 2023).
The Case of the Arabic Noirs, The Paris Review (August 20, 2014).
Inside the Strange Saga of a Cairo Novelist Imprisoned for Obscenity, Rolling Stone (February 24, 2017).
Mostafa el-Abbadi, 88, Historian of Ancient World Who Led Alexandria Library’s Revival, New York Times (March 4, 2017).
Qatar: The Shape of Tomorrow, Modern Painters (June/July 2016).
An Interview with Adonis, New York Review of Books (April 16, 2016).
Plight of an Arab Intellectual: Interview with Sonallah Ibrahim, Cairo Review of Global Affairs (Spring 2017).
The Double Game of Egyptian Surrealism, Los Angeles Review of Books (April 17, 2017).
The Arab Whodunnit: Crime Fiction Makes a Comeback in the Middle East, The Guardian, (October 3, 2014).
Chapters in Books
“After the Protest Movement,” The Protest and the Recuperation eds. Betti-Sue Hertz and Sreshta Rit Premnath (New York: The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, 2021).
“The Unsung Hero of Arab Comics,” The Fifth Annual Mahmoud Kahil Arab Comics Award (Beirut: American University of Beirut Press, 2020).
“En Première ligne: La Bande dessinée à l’heure du monde arabe,” La Nouvelle bande dessinée arabe ed. Shennawy (Paris: Actes Sud BD, 2018).
“Speech Bubbles: Comics and Political Cartoons in Sisi’s Egypt,” Arab Politics beyond the Uprisings: Experiments in an Era of Resurgent Authoritarianism eds. Thanassis Cambanis and Michael Wahid Hanna (Washington DC: The Century Foundation Press, 2017).
Rapport sur la situation des dessinateurs de presse dans le monde (Paris: Cartooning for Peace, 2017).
“Translating Egypt’s Political Cartoons,” Translating Dissent: Voices from and with the Egyptian Revolution ed. Mona Baker (New York: Routledge, 2016).