Reporting on National Security
Silicon Valley Takes the Battlespace, The American Prospect (January/February 2021)
The Lucrative Afterlife of a Trump Official, The American Prospect (November/December 2020).
How Biden's Foreign-Policy Team Got Rich, The American Prospect (July/Aug 2020).
Recent Essays and Analysis
Slow Simmering Solace, Radcliffe Magazine (Fall 2020).
A Cartoon of Peace and Outrage, The American Prospect (September 2, 2020).
A New Generation of Dissenters Dies in Egyptian Prison, The American Prospect (May 6, 2020).
Even in Death, Soleimani Is the Winner, The American Prospect (January 6, 2020).
From Ivory Tower to Egyptian Dungeon, The American Prospect (Jan/Feb 2020).
Egypt’s President Stomps on the Press, The American Prospect (November 26, 2019).
Never Again, Except for Right Now, The American Prospect (Fall 2019).
On Arab Comics
War, Romance, and Everyday Life in Beirut’s Emerging Alt-Comix Scene, Atlas Obscura (September 9, 2019).
On the Arab Page: Between Fine and Comic Art, Le Monde diplomatique (January 2017).
Mad Magazines: Underground Comics Come to Egypt, Harper's Magazine (March 2016).
The Offending Art: Political Cartooning after the Charlie Hebdo Attacks, Nieman Reports (Winter 2015).
The Gulf Crisis, as Told Through Cartoons, The Atlantic (July 31, 2017).
Understanding Arab Comics, Los Angeles Review of Books (July 9, 2016).
CairoComix: Excavating the Political, Mada Masr (October 12, 2015).
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).
The Writing on Egypt's Walls, The New Yorker (August 14, 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
Plight of an Arab Intellectual: Interview with Sonallah Ibrahim, Cairo Review of Global Affairs (Spring 2017).
Qatar: The Shape of Tomorrow, Modern Painters (June/July 2016).
Mostafa el-Abbadi, 88, Historian of Ancient World Who Led Alexandria Library’s Revival, New York Times (March 4, 2017).
Inside the Strange Saga of a Cairo Novelist Imprisoned for Obscenity, Rolling Stone (February 24, 2017).
The Double Game of Egyptian Surrealism, Los Angeles Review of Books (April 17, 2017).
“Now the Writing Starts”: An Interview with Adonis, New York Review of Books (April 16, 2016).
The Arab Whodunnit: Crime Fiction Makes a Comeback in the Middle East, The Guardian, (October 3, 2014).
The Case of the Arabic Noirs, The Paris Review (August 20, 2014).
Chapters in Books
"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,” in La Nouvelle bande dessinée arabe ed. Shennawy (Paris: Actes Sud BD, 2018).
"Speech Bubbles: Comics and Political Cartoons in Sisi’s Egypt," in 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," in Translating Dissent: Voices from and with the Egyptian Revolution ed. Mona Baker (New York: Routledge, 2016), 208-221.
Silicon Valley Takes the Battlespace, The American Prospect (January/February 2021)
The Lucrative Afterlife of a Trump Official, The American Prospect (November/December 2020).
How Biden's Foreign-Policy Team Got Rich, The American Prospect (July/Aug 2020).
Recent Essays and Analysis
Slow Simmering Solace, Radcliffe Magazine (Fall 2020).
A Cartoon of Peace and Outrage, The American Prospect (September 2, 2020).
A New Generation of Dissenters Dies in Egyptian Prison, The American Prospect (May 6, 2020).
Even in Death, Soleimani Is the Winner, The American Prospect (January 6, 2020).
From Ivory Tower to Egyptian Dungeon, The American Prospect (Jan/Feb 2020).
Egypt’s President Stomps on the Press, The American Prospect (November 26, 2019).
Never Again, Except for Right Now, The American Prospect (Fall 2019).
On Arab Comics
War, Romance, and Everyday Life in Beirut’s Emerging Alt-Comix Scene, Atlas Obscura (September 9, 2019).
On the Arab Page: Between Fine and Comic Art, Le Monde diplomatique (January 2017).
Mad Magazines: Underground Comics Come to Egypt, Harper's Magazine (March 2016).
The Offending Art: Political Cartooning after the Charlie Hebdo Attacks, Nieman Reports (Winter 2015).
The Gulf Crisis, as Told Through Cartoons, The Atlantic (July 31, 2017).
Understanding Arab Comics, Los Angeles Review of Books (July 9, 2016).
CairoComix: Excavating the Political, Mada Masr (October 12, 2015).
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).
The Writing on Egypt's Walls, The New Yorker (August 14, 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
Plight of an Arab Intellectual: Interview with Sonallah Ibrahim, Cairo Review of Global Affairs (Spring 2017).
Qatar: The Shape of Tomorrow, Modern Painters (June/July 2016).
Mostafa el-Abbadi, 88, Historian of Ancient World Who Led Alexandria Library’s Revival, New York Times (March 4, 2017).
Inside the Strange Saga of a Cairo Novelist Imprisoned for Obscenity, Rolling Stone (February 24, 2017).
The Double Game of Egyptian Surrealism, Los Angeles Review of Books (April 17, 2017).
“Now the Writing Starts”: An Interview with Adonis, New York Review of Books (April 16, 2016).
The Arab Whodunnit: Crime Fiction Makes a Comeback in the Middle East, The Guardian, (October 3, 2014).
The Case of the Arabic Noirs, The Paris Review (August 20, 2014).
Chapters in Books
"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,” in La Nouvelle bande dessinée arabe ed. Shennawy (Paris: Actes Sud BD, 2018).
"Speech Bubbles: Comics and Political Cartoons in Sisi’s Egypt," in 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," in Translating Dissent: Voices from and with the Egyptian Revolution ed. Mona Baker (New York: Routledge, 2016), 208-221.
