Trump’s new travel ban is a gratuitously cruel sequel
The new travel ban policy is alienating, counterproductive and racist – and it isn’t the flex that Trump thinks it is, I …
Antisemitic and Islamophobic violence is rising in the United States. Both must stop
I wrote this essay for The Guardian following the terrible events in Boulder, Colorado. We have a duty to call out antisemitism …
Mahmoud Khalil’s treatment should not happen in a democracy
For The Guardian, I wrote about how the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil is an attempt by the Trump administration to destroy free …
On the Black Lives Matter protests in New York City
I was asked by Scena 9, a Romanian magazine, to write a very short essay on the Black Lives Matter protests in …
U.S. Backs Repression in Egypt
The sentencing on June 23 of three Al Jazeera journalists, each to at least seven years in prison, by an Egyptian …
A brief reflection on Jehane Noujaim’s “The Square”
Here’s the problem with The Square, Jehane Noujaim’s documentary about Egypt. Because it decides to forgo explaining all but the most basic …
Two Short Pieces on Egypt
I was in Egypt during late November and early December. I wrote two short pieces about what’s happening there. They can be …
Men Behaving Badly (on that stupid film and the stupid response)
Here we go again. A preposterous provocation easily manages to ignite fevered protests in Muslim-majority countries around the world, and everyone is …