Publications 

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 Passage2021.


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

Imperial Mecca: An Interview with Michael Christopher Low” for Toynbee Prize Foundation, 2021.


Thinking Through Water: An Interview with Sunil S. Amrith” for Toynbee Prize Foundation, 2020.