Political Reporting & Commentary
“Vengeful Pathologies,” on the war in Gaza, London Review of Books, 2 November 2023
“You Think Our Country’s So Innocent,” on the 2022 midterms, London Review of Books, 1 December 2022
“Ghosts in the Land,” on the 2021 Gaza War, London Review of Books, 22 May 2021
“Trump’s War on America,” London Review of Books, June 5, 2020.
“Shipwrecked,” on the coronavirus. April 14, 2020, London Review of Books.
“Too Important to Kill,” on the killing of Qasem Soleimani, London Review of Books, January 23, 2020
“Trump Declares War,” London Review of Books blog, January 3 2020
“Orientalism, then and now,” New York Review Daily, 20 May 2019
“Trump’s America, Netanyahu’s Israel,” London Review of Books, 9 May 2019
“The Sea is the Same Sea,” London Review of Books, 30 August 2018.
"American Carnage," London Review of Books blog, July 2 2018
"The Drift Towards War," London Review of Books blog, May 11 2018
"How the Tariq Ramadan Scandal Derailed the #Balancetonporc Movement in France, the New Yorker Magazine online, November 29 2017
"The President and the Bomb," London Review of Books, 16 November 2017
"Wrecking Ball," on Donald Trump, London Review of Books, 7 September 2017
"Trump Set Them Free," on Charlottesville, London Review of Books blog, 16 August 2017
"Out of Sight, Out of Mind," on mass incarceration, London Review of Books, 4 May 2017
"The Art of the Bigger Deal," London Review of Books blog, February 17, 2017
"The Deep State," London Review of Books blog, February 14, 2017"
"Obama Hoped to Transform the World. It Transformed Him,"
New York Times , January 12, 2017
"The Nightmare Begins," an essay on Trump's victory, London Review of Books, November 10, 2016
"Stranger Still," a profile of Kamel Daoud
New York Times Magazine, 2015
"The Daoud Affair"
London Review of Books, 2016
"The Life and Death of Juliano Mer-Khamis"
London Review of Books, 2013
"Magical Thinking About ISIS"
London Review of Books, 2015
"How did we end up here?"
London Review of Books Blog, 2016
"Moral Clarity"
London Review of Books Blog, 2015
"Writers or Missionaries?"
The Nation, 2014
"Israel's Putinisation"
London Review of Books, 2016
"Kamasi Washington's Giant Step"
New York Times Magazine, 2016
"Freddie Gray"
London Review of Books, 2015
"Diary," on the elections in Egypt
London Review of Books, 2012
"Is Palestine Next?"
London Review of Books, 2011
"Iraq-Syria"
London Review of Books blog, 2013
"Egypt's Counter-Revolution,"
London Review of Books blog, 2013
"After Egypt"
London Review of Books, 2011
"After Mubarak"
London Review of Books, 2011
"Mubarak's Last Breath," a report from Cairo just before the revolution
London Review of Books, 2010
"In Search of Hezbollah, Part I"
"In Search of Hezbollah, Part II"
New York Review of Books, 2004
"Algeria's Failed Revolution"
New York Review of Books, 2003
"The Torture of Algiers," on the memory of Algerian War in France
New York Review of Books, 2002
"The Native Informant," on Fouad Ajami
The Nation, 2003
"The Left and 9/11"
The Nation, 2002
"Okwui Enzor's Really Big Show"
New York Times Magazine, 2002
"Glenn Loury's About Face"
New York Times Magazine, 2002
"The Thernstroms in Black and White,"
on Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom
The American Prospect, 2001
Adrian Piper
Lingua Franca, 1998
(not online)
"The American Earthquake: Mike Davis and the Politics of Disaster"
Lingua Franca, 1997