Selected publications:
When Your Older Sibling Is the Spark for Your Music Career, OkayAfrica, Dec 2025
Suzannah Mirghani’s Debut Film ‘Cotton Queen’ is a Powerful Reflection on Sudan’s Colonial Past and Future, OkayAfrica, Nov 2025
50 Years of Western Sahara’s Occupation: Sahrawi Voices on Morocco & The Ongoing Struggle, OkayAfrica, Nov 2025
Manal Opens Up on Motherhood, Music & Her New Song, ‘Carta Rouge’, OkayAfrica, Nov 2025
What It’s Like To … Be a Couples Therapist in Egypt, OkayAfrica, Nov 2025
Op-Ed: The ‘Real Egyptian’ Debate Misses The Point: Stop Erasing Modern Egyptians’ Link To Their Past, OkayAfrica, Nov 2025
Get to Know ‘Way-Way,’ a New Sub-Genre of Algeria’s Rai Music, OkayAfrica, Nov 2025
How Abir Ibrahim’s Photo Book “Love Letters to Sudan” Celebrates Sudan’s Culture and Strength, OkayAfrica, Oct 2025
The Moroccan Rappers Proving Darija Is a Global Language of Hip-Hop, OkayAfrica, Oct 2025
From Discord to the Streets: the Unique, but Interconnected Case of Morocco’s Gen Z Protests, OkayAfrica, Oct 2025
The Enduring Legacies of Egypt’s Early 2000s Pop Divas, OkayAfrica, Oct 2025
Award-Winning Sudanese Filmmaker Mai Elgizouli Moved to New York and Discovered That Making Music Is the Most Intimate of Art Forms, OkayAfrica, Oct 2025
Saha Gnawa’s New Album Fuses Moroccan Gnawa With NYC Jazz, OkayAfrica, Oct 2025
Montiyago is Creating His Own Reference for Sudanese Rap, OkayAfrica, Oct 2025
In the ‘Book of Shame,’ Refugees in North Africa Accuse UNHCR of Failing Its Mandate, OkayAfrica, Sep 2025
A New Report on Rape Laws Shows the Need for Urgent Reforms in North Africa, OkayAfrica, Sep 2025
Why Does the World Not Care About the Genocide in Sudan?, OkayAfrica, Sep 2025
Egypt vs. Masr: How a Social Media Trend Exposes the Absurdity of Social Inequality, OkayAfrica, Sep 2025
The Future Cost of Sudan’s War and the Optimism It Takes to Bear It, OkayAfrica, Sep 2025
Moroccan Songstress ilham Invites You to Escape on Her ‘uhm…ok?’ EP, OkayAfrica, Sep 2025
Guedra Guedra’s ‘MUTANT’ is a Pan-African Sonic Archive, OkayAfrica, Sep 2025
Moroccan Photographer Youssef Ouechen’s Home in Casablanca is an Inspirational Middle Ground, OkayAfrica, Aug 2025
The World Is Watching as Starvation in El Fasher Accelerates in Darfur Genocide, OkayAfrica, Aug 2025
Egyptians Are Being Priced Out of Access to Their Own Mediterranean Beaches, OkayAfrica, Aug 2025
Op-Ed: Is the Maputo Protocol Still Useful for Promoting Women’s Rights in Africa?, OkayAfrica, July 2025
Donia Wael Will Let You See Her Now, OkayAfrica, July 2025
How Sudan Relies on Online Banking and Digital Payments Amid Currency Crisis and War, OkayAfrica, July 2025
What It’s Like To … Run a Publishing House and Bookstore in Cairo, OkayAfrica, July 2025
‘The Sudanese Kitchen Cookbook:’ A Culinary Map of Sudan’s Rich Food Traditions, OkayAfrica, July 2025
The Bawaki Beach Resort: How a Dream in Sinai Kicked off a Magical Tourism Niche, OkayAfrica, July 2025
Algeria’s Significant Role in Africa’s Wars of Liberation, OkayAfrica, July 2025
Get to Know Libyan Disco, Reggae & Pop in This New Collection From Habibi Funk, OkayAfrica, July 2025
Bas’ ‘Melanchronica’ Wraps You in Solace, Peace, and Nostalgia, OkayAfrica, June 2025
The New Reality of Port Sudan, OkayAfrica, June 2025
Best North African Songs of 2025 So Far — Mid-Year Roundup, OkayAfrica, June 2025
How Sudanese Displacement to Egypt Might Help End FGM, OkayAfrica, June 2025
On NAFIDA, Moroccan Rapper Small X Rises Above the Noise and Into Underexplored Musical Territory, OkayAfrica, June 2025
How Black Lives Matter Strengthened Afropean Relationships to the Continent, OkayAfrica, May 2025
‘Africa Refocused’ Changes the Story by Changing the Storyteller, OkayAfrica, May 2025
In His New Short Film ‘Is It War?’ Timeea Mohamed Reflects on Existence in Exile, OkayAfrica, May 2025
What It’s Like To … Fight for Migrant Rights in Libya, OkayAfrica, May 2025
With ‘Aisha Can’t Fly Away,’ Morad Mostafa Opens a Different Perspective on Life in Egypt, OkayAfrica, May 2025
Maha Barsoom Brings Egyptian Cuisine to the Michelin Guide, OkayAfrica, May 2025
On “The Man Who Lost His Heart,” Marwan Moussa Maps a Pathway Through Grief, OkayAfrica, May 2025
What It’s like To … Work as a Tour Guide in the Grand Egyptian Museum, OkayAfrica, Apr 2025
Sham El-Nessim: Egypt’s Ancient Spring Festival, OkayAfrica, Apr 2025
The Hard-Fought Independence That Has Yet to Bring Peace, OkayAfrica, Apr 2025
Hana Baba’s Folktales Tell a Different Story About Sudan, OkayAfrica, Apr 2025
Sudan Can’t Wait, OkayAfrica, Apr 2025
The Youth-Led Protests that Continue to Reverberate Across Africa, OkayAfrica, Apr 2025
MENA is the World’s Fastest Growing Music Industry: What Comes Next?, OkayAfrica, Apr 2025
What It’s Like To … Be a First Responder in the Sudan War, OkayAfrica, Mar 2025
The Risky Boys Turn Cairo’s Vibrant Energy Into Viral Fashion Shows, OkayAfrica, Mar 2025
Djaili Amadou Amal Puts Women First, OkayAfrica, Mar 2025
‘Children of Honey:’ The Hadzabe Want the World to Know Who They Are, OkayAfrica, Mar 2025
This Film Festival Centers Human Rights Through The Lens of African Filmmakers, OkayAfrica, Mar 2025
This All-Women Creative Retreat Immerses You in Moroccan Artistry and the Safety of Sisterhood, OkayAfrica, Feb 2025
The Ideals of Imam Muhsin Hendricks Live on in South Africa’s Human Rights Activism, OkayAfrica, Feb 2025
People of My Time: Hassan Hajjaj’s Latest Exhibition Centers Community and Friendship, OkayAfrica, Feb 2025
Legends: Umm Kulthum’s Legacy Lives in the Emotion of Younger Generations, OkayAfrica, Feb 2025
This Community Kitchen in Sudan is Setting an Inspiring Example for Grassroots Humanitarian Aid, OkayAfrica, Feb 2025
‘Khartoum’ Wins Peace Film Prize at 75th Berline, Receiving Recognition for Its Political Urgency and Poetry, OkayAfrica, Feb 2025
Can the U.S. Funding Freeze Open Opportunities For More Sustainable Humanitarian Aid?, OkayAfrica, Feb 2025
What It’s Like To…Revive the Art of Egyptian Cabaret in New York City, OkayAfrica, Feb 2025
Emmanuel Jal Wants His People to Shower With Milk, OkayAfrica, Feb 2025
The 1-54 Art Fair in Marrakech is Reshaping Africa’s Creative Geography, OkayAfrica, Jan 2025
Moroccan Art Galleries Welcome the World at This Year’s 1-54 Art Fair, OkayAfrica, Jan 2025
Curly Hair Salons in Cairo are Paving the Way for a Nascent Natural Hair Revolution, OkayAfrica, Jan 2025
In ‘Hollywoodgate,’ Egyptian Filmmaker Ibrahim Nash’at Grants the World Access to the Taliban, OkayAfrica, Jan 2025
Songhoy Blues’ ‘Héritage’ is a Beautiful Tribute to Malian Music of the Past and Present, OkayAfrica, Jan 2025
What Stories Are on North African Journalists’ Radars in 2025?, OkayAfrica, Jan 2025
How ‘Flight Into Egypt’ Connects Black Artists with Ancient Egyptian Heritage, OkayAfrica, Jan 2025
Will US Sanctions Have an Impact on the War in Sudan?, OkayAfrica, Jan 2025
Here’s Why Egyptians Celebrate Christmas on January 7, OkayAfrica, Jan 2025
“No one can do it better than you:” Ala Kheir on the Hopeful State of African Photography, OkayAfrica, Dec 2024
The Best North African Songs of 2024, OkayAfrica, Dec 2024
Elmiene’s ‘For The Deported’ is a Love Letter to Sudan, OkayAfrica, Dec 2024
Between Online Surveillance and Morality Police, Libyan Women Fight For Their Place in Public Life, OkayAfrica, Nov 2024
“It’s a beautiful struggle” — Lessons from Sudanese Community Organizers, OkayAfrica, Nov 2024
Sudanese and Egyptian Rappers Battle in the Latest ‘Rap Shar3’, OkayAfrica, Nov 2024
You Mustn’t Use Magic When Throwing Bones, midnight & indigo, Oct 2024
For Ash, Performing at The Pyramids of Giza Marks a Full Circle Moment, OkayAfrica, Oct 2024
How Magda Iskander’s Mission to Care With Love Inspires Hope for Children With Cancer, OkayAfrica, Oct 2024
NOORstudios is Bringing Creatives Into the Global Spotlight, OkayAfrica, Oct 2024
Why Are African Domestic Workers Stranded in Lebanon?, OkayAfrica, Oct 2024
In ‘Samahani,’ Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin Asks if Evil Can be Combated with Goodness and Love, OkayAfrica, Sep 2024
Katouche Goll on Why the Paralympics Were a Watershed Moment for Her, OkayAfrica, Sep 2024
In the Heart of Cairo, Craftsmen Uphold Centuries-Old Traditions, OkayAfrica, Aug 2024
Likikiri Collective Uses Storytelling to Safeguard South Sudanese Women’s Wisdoms, OkayAfrica, Aug 2024
When is a Woman in Appropriate Shape to be Considered a “Proper” Athlete?, OkayAfrica, Jul 2024
Bilal Mallakh Is Proud “to Represent Morocco and Africa” in Olympic Breakdancing, OkayAfrica, Jul 2024
Yaseen Abdalla Ran Through Highs and Lows to the Olympics, OkayAfrica, Jul 2024
People Have Multiple Identities, and Countries Do Too, OkayAfrica, Jul 2024
Rayan Elnayal Imagines Spaces of Hope and Serenity through Magical Realism, The Floor Magazine, Jul 2024
There is Nothing African about Homophobia, OkayAfrica, Jul 2024
Why Deo Kato is Running Across Africa, OkayAfrica, Jul 2024
Rap Shar3 is Platforming the Best Arabic Street Rap, OkayAfrica, Jul 2024
Abokamar: An Experience, a Sensation and an Inspiration to Watch, OkayAfrica, Jul 2024
What Stories do North Africans Tell of Each Other?, OkayAfrica, Jun 2024
Sudanese Refugees Fleeing to Egypt are Struggling to Find the Resources They Need to Survive, OkayAfrica, Jun 2024
Nadine El Roubi is at Her Most Confident and Vulnerable in ‘Freestyles Pt. 2 Mixtape’, OkayAfrica, Jun 2024
Zola Studios is Building a Creative Community for Regions With Underrepresented Storytellers, OkayAfrica, Jun 2024
What It’s Like To Be an Art Therapist in Egypt, OkayAfrica, Jun 2024
How ‘Khartoon Magazine’ is Sustaining the Revolutionary Work of Sudanese Artists, OkayAfrica, May 2024
Sub-Saharan Migrants are Bearing the Brunt of Tunisia’s Crackdown on Civil Society, OkayAfrica, May 2024
What It’s Like To Be an Entertainment Lawyer in Egypt, OkayAfrica, May 2024
At the 60th Venice Biennale, Ahmed Umar Revives a Traditional Sudanese Bridal Dance, OkayAfrica, May 2024
Amaka Jaji’s Debut Album, ‘TIDET,’ Fuses Tuareg Tradition With Modernity, OkayAfrica, May 2024
Morocco Through the Lens of Zineb Koutten, OkayAfrica, Apr 2024
A Year Into the War, Sudanese Artists are Building Communities of Care in Nairobi, OkayAfrica, Apr 2024
EMEL Summons Action and Resistance on Fifth Studio Album ‘MRA’, OkayAfrica, Apr 2024
At the 60th Venice Biennale, Wael Shawky Invites Us to Reflect on Past Fictions and Myths, OkayAfrica, Apr 2024
Unraveling the ‘ICEBERG,’ Stormy Sets Out to Reinvent Moroccan Rap, OkayAfrica, Apr 2024
One Year Into the Sudan War, Artists in Cairo Struggle to Enter Egypt’s Creative Scene, OkayAfrica, Apr 2024
Norfafrica Shares the Sounds of a Region on the Rise, OkayAfrica, Apr 2024
Tunis: How a Farming Village Became an Internationally Renowned Artisan Hub, OkayAfrica, Mar 2024
Hassan Hajjaj, Godfather of Morocco’s Creative Scene, OkayAfrica, Mar 2024
Zawya Celebrates a Decade of Independent Cinema in Cairo, OkayAfrica, Mar 2024
Tunisia’s LGBTQ+ and Nightlife Communities are Preparing for a Conservative Crackdown, OkayAfrica, Feb 2024
Reverse Migration: Why North African Creatives are Returning Home, OkayAfrica, Feb 2024
Palestine Through The Lens of German Blackness and Jewish Anti-Zionism, Amaka Studio, Dec 2023
Digesting Political Emotions, auftakt festival, Dec 2023
iḥsān und Haesslichkeit, auftakt festival Publikation, Dec 2023
Dancing with my demons, Skin Deep PLAY (10), Nov 2023
The “vulgar” icons of Egypt’s cassette culture, Pan African Music, Nov 2023
Centring Pleasure Activism With adrienne maree brown, Project Myopia, Sep 2023
Learning the Multiplicity of Being With Akwaeke Emezi, Project Myopia, Sep 2023
Synthesized Sudan: Jantra’s Astro‑Nubian Jaglara music, Pan African Music, Aug 2023
Helping Women and Vulnerable People Survive Realities of Living in Sudan: The Noon Movement, Amaka Studio, Jul 2023
In/Visible: Creating a Black Multiverse Through AI, Amaka Studio, Jul 2023
Virtual Super Models: “a White Man’s Digital Projection of Real Black Womanhood”, Amaka Studio, Jun 2023
Transitioning in Egypt: An Intimate Conversation, Amaka Studio, Jun 2023
Umm Kulthum and Gamal Abdel Nasser, the voice of the Arabs, Pan African Music, May 2023
The Rhythm of Sisterhood in “Ampe: Leap Into The Sky, Black Girl“, Amaka Studio, May 2023
Why is the World Actually Bothered by a Black Cleopatra?, Amaka Studio, Apr 2023
Sofia Boutella and May Calamawy: The North African Trailblazers of Hollywood, Amaka Studio Digi-Zine The Action Issue, Mar 2023
No compromises, Africa Is a Country, Mar 2023
Sonic Futures: Felukah on Arabfuturism, Pan African Music, Mar 2023
The African Sex Workers Alliance, Amaka Studio, Mar 2023
Conversations with Baba, Amaka Studio, Mar 2023
Writing Strategic Optimism, Amaka Studio, Mar 2023
Your Egyptian Doula: Changing Lives Through Informed, Community-Centred Birthing, Amaka Studio, Feb 2023
Is Egypt’s Rising Divorce Rate Testament to a Wave of Liberation?, Amaka Studio, Feb 2023
The Restitution Movement: Africa’s Fight for Its Stolen Art, Amaka Studio, Jan 2023
High Priestess in Low Tides, Queercircle: A to Zine, Jan 2023
Sami Wants You To Know That You Don’t Have To Be Perfect Today, Amaka Studio, Jan 2023
High Priestess in Low Tides, Kandaka, Dec 2022
The Pan-African Women’s Organisation, Amaka Studio, Dec 2022
Growing Into The Sudanese Toub, Amaka Studio, Dec 2022
The Foremothers of Pan-Africanism, Amaka Studio, Dec 2022
How Africa Is Becoming Fast Fashion’s Dumping Ground, Amaka Studio, Sep 2022
How Is Climate Change Affecting African Women’s Mental Health?, Amaka Studio, Aug 2022
Bringing Ancient Egyptian Remedies With Ancient Naturals, Amaka Studio, Aug 2022
Leikeili47 Comes Full Circle in Shape Up, Amaka Studio, July 2022
There’s an Art To Making The Perfect Playlist: Afrohunting Diasporic Sounds, Amaka Studio, July 2022
Nozhet El Nofous (Those Who Were Not Invited), Pan African Music, June 2022
Zar: Dancing with Jinn, Amaka Studio, May 2022
The Role of Business in Eradicating Child Labour, Amaka Studio, Apr 2022
Searching for Black Voices in Egypt’s #MeToo Movement, Amaka Studio Digi-Zine The Power Issue, Mar 2022
African American Female Opera Singer Tatum Robertson on Community and the Complexity of Black Emotions, Amaka Studio, Mar 2022
“Natural Beauty Is Unnatural”: Katouche Goll On Makeup, Disability and Pleasure, Amaka Studio, Feb 2022
Reading Audre Lorde in Cairo: How the Classroom Acts as a Site of Joy and Resistance, Amaka Studio, Jan 2022
“All Art Carries Societal Relevance and Gives a Political Message”: Madina Frey on Drama and Magic, Amaka Studio, Jan 2022
Soulful Spectrum: Jude Benhalim On Jewellery and Sustainability in Egypt, Amaka Studio, Dec 2021
From Harlem to Cairo: On Jazz and Liberation, Amaka Studio, Dec 2021
Norshek on Nurturing Love and Sustainability in Egypt, Egyptian Streets, Dec 2021
Going Underground in Cairo’s Night Club Scene, Amaka Studio, Nov 2021
The Future of Music is Female: Helina’s Lit(tle) Tits, Amaka Studio, Nov 2021
Joycelyn Longdon: Connecting Creativity and Climate Activism, Meeting of Minds UK, Oct 2021
Liberal Arts and Pleasure Activism Helped Me Understand Cairo, Egyptian Streets, Oct 2021
UNN Model Management on Rebirthing North African Beauty Standards, AMAKA Studio, Oct 2021
Studio 88: Where Cairenes Reimagine The Power of Art, Egyptian Streets, Oct 2021
How Tabdeel Is Empowering Young Egyptian Women One Bycicle at a Time, Egyptian Streets, 2021
Journaling the Back of the Mind with Kilma, Amaka Studio, Sep 2021
Unfamiliar Bloom: 5 Egyptian DJs Shaping the Contemporary Music Scene, Egyptian Streets, 2021
African Feminisms Part II: Sudanese Women in Defence of Themselves, Meeting of Minds UK, Aug 2021
At the Intersection of #MeToo and #BLM, Afro-Arab Women Fall Through the Cracks, Meeting of Minds UK, Aug 2021
African Feminisms Part 1 – The Historical Legacies of Kandaka, Meeting of Minds UK, Jun 2021
Beyond Intersectionality: Towards a Decolonial Feminism‘, Meeting of Minds UK, Jun 2021
Was macht uns Schwarz?, RosaMag, May 2021
schwarz: How the Black Lives Matter Movement Emboldened Afro-German Creativity and Resistance, Meeting of Minds UK, May 2021
On Pleasure and Belonging: Manifesting Lessons from adrienne maree brown in Egypt, Meeting of Minds UK, May 2021
In Conversation with Rowa Ahmed, Designer and Community Organiser, Meeting of Minds UK, Mar 2021
Blackness in Brown Africa: Afropean Observations, Meeting of Minds UK, Feb 2021
Archiving the Women Who Made Me Possible (after Sitawa Namwalie and Aleya Kassam), Skin Deep, Jan 2021
Running (from) home, Meeting of Minds UK, Sep 2020
Tracing Black Histories – Afro-Deutschland, Podcast Episode on Kandaka, Jul 2020
Diasporic Growing Pains and the Sudan Revolution, Skin Deep, Nov 2019
When in London, sweetthangzine Nostalgia (5), Aug 2019
Sexualised and gendered identities – something fictionalised and something made real, shado mag, Jul 2019
Feminist Fathers, sweethangzine The Love Issue (4), Feb 2019
Colour Blindness, Dashiki & Mom Jeans, Jul 2017
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