“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”

Introducing the Palestinian Foodways Bibliography: a collaborative effort to collate, document, and honor the myriad writing, research, and other forms of documented knowledge about Palestinian foodways. www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46984

On women in the revolution from our spring issue, with @maryahannun.bsky.social and Raga Makkawi. www.merip.org/2025/06/shif...

It’s soup season and Nile Nightshade’s publication day is almost here! Read on for an Egyptian lentil soup recipe, a preview of the book’s content, and info about an incredible new art installation (featuring tomatoes, of course) by Yasmine El Meleegy. cookingwithgaul.com/2025/09/21/t...

The DC Palestinian Film & Arts Festival starts next week, and it's not to be missed. Tickets here www.dcpfaf.org/2025

Introducing NILE NIGHTSHADE: AN EGYPTIAN CULINARY HISTORY OF THE TOMATO, coming this October from @ucpress.bsky.social. Read on for details about a preorder promotion I'm running to raise money for mutual aid, a zine giveaway, and a preview of the book. 🧵: (1/9)

Read about the interplay of working-class masculinity, anti-Afghan racism & tennis in Iran in my piece on @merip.bsky.social. Immense gratitude for Gol Agha Azizi, Farnaz & Mohammad Reza Jurabchian & @maryahannun.bsky.social. This piece was finalized before June 13, 2025. merip.org/2025/06/bann...

My latest post is all about weeka, a technique for cooking okra that is shared between Egyptian and Sudanese food cultures: cookingwithgaul.com/2025/07/27/w...

To see Arabic-language media outlets engaging with this exploration of Egypt’s cassette culture means the world to me, and to have the book be mentioned alongside the work of Lucie Ryzova and @annygaul.bsky.social is an honor. Alf shukr to al-Quds al-Arabi for this thoughtful review!

*Podcast Alert* I had the extraordinary pleasure to discuss my book Sufi Civilities (@stanfordpress.bsky.social ) with the delightful @bcheves.bsky.social for @ajammc.bsky.social find our conversation on their website or Spotify #afghanistan #anthropology #sufism

On the six year anniversary of the Sudanese uprisings, revisiting this conversation with Rabab Elnaiem for @merip.bsky.social on 'Sustaining Sudan's Revolution' in the context of the current counterrevolutionary war. merip.org/2024/04/a-co...

Just got my copy of @sfahrenthold.bsky.social’s richly detailed and beautifully stitched together book: Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work and the Syrian American Working Class. 1/

Killed by Israel for his complicity in not starving the population.

Again sending around this starter pack courtesy of @viewfromargus.bsky.social go.bsky.app/3h6n3YC

Reading this alongside Dylan Saba’s prescient analysis from last March www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

This is happening now in Beirut. X, as horrific as it got, is a loudspeaker for the silenced. I am still there because of it. We must get intentional about circulating the horrors in Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan if we intend to make this the just alternative.

In light of the recent loss of our co-founder and longtime editor Joe Stork, we’ve compiled a short guide to his writing at MERIP and elsewhere. Here’s hoping you find it useful! merip.org/2024/11/joe-...

Friends and comrades, welcome! We have a MERIP starter pack for you! Follow our contributors, editors, staff and fellow travelers!

For those in NY: I’ll be talking about my book (plus some implications for the current context in Palestine) next Wednesday evening 11/20 at the CUNY Grad Center, with Jillian Schwedler as my discussant: www.gc.cuny.edu/events/book-...

The only nice news I’ve seen out of the US since last Tuesday…

Here it is! A Starter Pack for Middle East News A couple things 1) Inclusion in this list should not be taken as an endorsement, this is to crystalize the MENA ecosystem so it can grow 2) Limit's 150, so if I missed you, hit me in the replies & I'll get you in the next one go.bsky.app/2pjNYfP

Tonight! Looking forward to this discussion and Special Issue launch at LSE

MER's fall issue, 'Carceral Realities and Freedom Dreams,' is here! It was edited by @lisahajjar.bsky.social Basil Farraj Jacob Mundy and Kanwal Hameed, and has several really important pieces about forms of un-freedom and resistance to them. merip.org/magazine/312/

MERIP's @maryahannun.bsky.social interviews Neve Gordon on the reach and limits of humanitarian law.

The latest issue of MERIP is out: "Journalism and Activism in an Age of Transnational Repression." I had a blast editing this issue alongside an exceptional group of editors: Ayça Alemdaroğlu, Marc Owen Jones, and Kevin Schwartz.

Really pleased to have edited the latest MERIP issue with Ayça Alemdaroğlu @wazirelkif.bsky.social and Kevin Schwartz. So many great reads so please check it out! "Journalism and Activism in an Age of Transnational Repression" merip.org/magazine/307...

The latest issue of MERIP, "Frontlines: Journalism and Activism in the Age of Transnational Repression" is out and looks great! Kudos to @wazirelkif.bsky.social and others on the editorial team for this issue, as well as guest-editor @marcowenjones.bsky.social menasky polisky

Read our latest in the MERIP “Transnational Repression Against Exiled Women Activists” merip.org/2023/09/exil...

The Summer/Fall issue of MERIP is here! What an illuminating, chilling, occasionally hopeful set of contributions on everything from the under-examined cybersecurity dimension of the Abraham Accords to the state of Tunisia’s transnational media scene. merip.org/magazine/307...

(غريبة): a shortbread cookie that's spelled the same & pronounced differently depending on where you are. Below: an easy to recall ratio-based recipe & a bit of musing on what a shortbread cookie has to do with transnational history: https://cookingwithgaul.com/2023/07/31/little-wondrous-things/