The Vanishing of the Public Intellectual
The Markaz Review is an excellent online arts and culture journal focused on the greater Middle East and its diasporas. The editors …
A cop said a woman killed by a police crash had ‘limited value’. That’s appalling
Have you heard about the Seattle cop who described a young Indian graduate student who was killed as being of “limited value”? …
On Ammar al-Baluchi
Over 20 years ago, Ammar al-Baluchi was snatched from the streets of Karachi, and then delivered to the CIA several days later. …
Jordan Neely, a vulnerable young man, was killed – and not by his medical history
In The Guardian, I write about how the killing of Jordan Neely and how much of the talk around the young man’s …
Donald Trump has been charged. The swamp is finally being drained
I wrote this for The Guardian on Trump’s arraignment, which marks the day when he began to be held criminally accountable. And …
The Iraq war started the post-truth era. And America is to blame
Twenty years ago, the United States led an invasion of Iraq. There is much to say about this colossal mistake, but this …
When it comes to immigration policy, Biden is increasingly Trump-like
In The Guardian, I argue that when it comes to immigration policy–especially on the US’s southern border–what we really need is a …
Republicans have a serious antisemitism problem. It isn’t Ilhan Omar
In this essay for The Guardian, I point out that Republican antisemitism is deep in the party today. Who remembers how, in …
Biden is throwing migrants under the bus to appease Republican fearmongering
In this piece, for The Guardian, I argue that while the Biden administration criticizes conservatives as anti-immigrant, it pursues policies not so …
Allah supreme: how Pharoah Sanders found freedom and rebellion in Islam
The legendary jazz musician Pharoah Sanders left us in 2022, moving me to write this piece on the influence of Islam on …