Trump v Biden in the first 2024 presidential debate: a catastrophe
Immediately following the first presidential debate, I wrote a quick response as part of a panel of responses for The Guardian. My …
Toys, spices, sewing machines: the items Israel banned from entering Gaza
I wrote this text for The Guardian to accompany Mona Chalabi’s illustrations depicting some of the items Israel has banned from entering …
Why is Nikki Haley scrawling genocidal messages on Israeli bombs?
Haley writing ‘finish them’ on an Israeli bomb is everything horrific about the US elite’s morally empty foreign policy, I explain in …
Decades of spying and repression: the anti-Palestinian origins of American Islamophobia
I wrote this feature for The Guardian on how it is often assumed that Islamophobia is the driving force behind US anti-Palestinian …
It’s not enough to stop an Israeli invasion of Rafah. We need a ceasefire now
Thinking of Rafah as a final ‘red line’ is a mistake, I write in The Guardian. The situation in Gaza is already …
As Biden ignores death in Gaza, the ‘Dark Brandon’ meme is unfunny and too real
In The Guardian, I write about Joe Biden’s tone-deaf use of social media. Until the president stops Israel’s violence, an evil-looking Biden …
Edward Said seems like a prophet: 20 years on, ‘there’s hunger for his narrative’
I wrote this essay about my old professor, Edward Said. As war rages in Gaza, Said’s words feel prescient. That’s because so …
Republican congressmen are now talking about throwing migrants from helicopters
Anti-migrant rhetoric has reached the point of a congressman citing a far-right meme about Augusto Pinochet’s death-flights, I write for The Guardian. …
Millions of Palestinians rely on UNRWA. Why is the US suspending funding based on Israeli accusations?
Twelve of the agency’s 13,000 Gaza employees were allegedly part of the 7 October attack – so the US and its allies …
The US election looms. Arab Americans feel stuck between a rock and a hard place
For The Guardian, I wrote about how Arab, Muslim and younger voters face a choice between Biden, who does little to stop …