
Publications
“If From Every Tongue it Drips (2022)” for C Magazine, Issue 152 (Extraction), 2022.
As an Interviewer
“If From Every Tongue it Drips (2022)” for C Magazine, Issue 152 (Extraction), 2022.
“Archives of Salt” [on erasure and archives in the Arabian Peninsula] for Hypocrite Reader, 2022.
“St. James Town: The Practice of Everyday Cinema” for (Re)Rites of Passage, 2021.
“Whirlpool of the Masses” [on the intimacies of pandemics and pilgrimages] for The New Inquiry, 2021.
“Plague Existentialism” [a syllabus for COVID-19] for The New Inquiry, 2021.
“Notes on Doves” [for the fiftieth anniversary of the War of Liberation] for AAWW, 2021; republished in Best of the Margins, 2021.
“Hajj as Metaphor” [on Ali Shariʿati‘s pilgrimage treatise] for Jadaliyya, 2021. Translated into Mandarin and Spanish.
“Tall Man Out” [a cultural history of Satyajit Ray’s height] for Popula, 2020.
“A dream is a merciful thing” [on Mohammad Malas’ The Dream] for Popula, 2019; republished in New Moons Anthology (ed. Kazim Ali), 2021.
"Not quite Satyajit Ray's world" [on the reception of Ray in Western film criticism] for Himal Southasian, 2018.
"Past as Prologue" for Duty Free (Issue No. 1: MICRO/MACRO), 2018.
"Archive 00:00" for Uncommon Sense (Volume 1), 2018.
"Satyajit Ray in Western Film Criticism, 1957-1958" for Caméra Stylo (Vol. 18), 2018.
"Isaiah Berlin's "Concept of Scientific History"" for Almagest (No. 3), 2017.
"The Fez and the Veil: Identity, Otherness, and the Ottoman Legacy in Portrait of a Turkish Family" for The Future of History (Vol. XIII), 2017.
As an Interviewer