For Aeon Mag, I wrote about the unending North African Syndrome in France, long after the media caravan moved on from Nahel’s killing last summer. aeon.co/essays/livin...

Living with the enduring pain of postcolonial trauma | Aeon Essays

The lives of North Africans in France are shaped by a harrowing struggle to belong, marked by postcolonial trauma

My latest book review for @middleeasteye on British-Palestinian author NS Nuseibeh and early Islam Nusayba, woman warrior and companion of the prophet. Palestinianness, Muslimhood, Arab feminism, and chosen ancestries. What’s in a name? www.middleeasteye.net/discover/nam...

Namesake: Reflections on Nusaiba, a warrior woman of early Islam

In her collection of essays, NS Nuseibeh engages with the complexities of Palestinian and Muslim identities through the character of Nusayba bint Ka'ab, a companion of the Prophet Muhammad

I reviewed “Matisse and the Sea” — a survey of Matisse’s infatuation with the sea and ocean landscapes as well as colonial entanglements — on now at the Saint Louis Art Museum! observer.com/2024/03/revi...

SLAM’s ‘Matisse and the Sea’ Showcases Many Ways of Seeing

Unlike Caspar Friedrich Casper’s romantic ocean that makes humans shrink, Matisse’s sea grows and we grow with it.

I wrote about acclaimed Tunisian film “Four Daughters” now in the race for the Oscars. Mixed review as it abides by Western obsessions of Islam and Arab women—their bodies, travails, and the social violence they must be expunged from. Let me know your thoughts…. artreview.com/four-daughte...

‘Four Daughters’: Devoured by the Wolf

A new Tunisian documentary draws on reality and reenactment to examine a family – and a nation – reeling

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My last article (in French) on the mixed reopening of the Bardo museum in Tunis and a need for a more expansive vision of Tunisian history — www.lequotidiendelart.com/articles/251...

Tunis : la réouverture en demi-teinte du Bardo - Le Quotidien de l'Art

Il aura fallu plus de deux ans pour enfin revoir les joyaux du musée du Bardo, réouvert au public en septembre 2023 dans un contexte de marasme politique et économique en Tunisie. Fermé sans préavis e...

My last article (in French) on the mixed reopening of the Bardo museum in Tunis and a need for a more expansive vision of Tunisian history — www.lequotidiendelart.com/articles/251...

Tunis : la réouverture en demi-teinte du Bardo - Le Quotidien de l'Art

Il aura fallu plus de deux ans pour enfin revoir les joyaux du musée du Bardo, réouvert au public en septembre 2023 dans un contexte de marasme politique et économique en Tunisie. Fermé sans préavis e...

It’s really been a mask-off day.

I’m so glad I’m starting therapy next week… When will all this relentless assault on Arabs end? When will the west stop considering violence against us as some kind of valium?

What a stunning, sensitive book about Arab exile, authoritarian violence, and the knotty pangs of revolutionary longings. My Friends, Hicham Matar

I attended the NYC premiere of “Goodbye Julia” a few months and immediately wanted to review this powerful and important film. Now featured in the Feb issue of The Brooklyn Rail in which I write about feminist revolutions, betrayals, POC agency, and much more: brooklynrail.org/2024/02/film...

Mohamed Kordofani’s Goodbye Julia

Propelled by its strong female leads, the winner of the Freedom Prize at last year’s Cannes elevates a pivotal moment of Sudan’s recent history into a tale of fragile bonds and necessary emancipat...