Raï is not some forgotten relic from a distant past. It's a thriving and evolving expression of Algerian culture, boasting a rich history: bit.ly/44KH0tC

i’m back on the radio Georgetown Radio this semester wednesdays noon-1:30!! tune in tomorrow to hear my interview with Phil from Wake Island

"How to grieve, what meaning to give those tears, is cruelly a political question whether we like it or not," gabrielwinant writes. dissentmagazine.org/online_article…

The Democratic Party and Biden are responsible for the Gaza genocide perpetrated by Israel.

The Israeli occupation destroys the central archive of #Gaza municipality, executing thousands of historical documents, and deliberately razing all life forms; erasing the city and its #history. It is worth noting that the archive holds #documents more than a hundred years old.

A nice rundown by Jill Kestler-DAmours (with some quotes from me here and there)

I wrote a short piece about Moroccan political cartoons for the Journal of North African Studies! read it here: tandfonline.com/eprint/V4JPEEI…

I wrote for this month's issue of The Markaz Review focused on SWANA connections to Paris. Check it out here: Nass El Ghiwane's Moroccan Folk, Radical Politics, Forged in Paris themarkaz.org/nass-el-ghiwan…

📣 [NEW ISSUE] Our new issue, TMR 40 • PARIS, is now live! What is it like these days to be a Middle Eastern/North African creative — an Arab, Turkish, Kurdish, Iranian writer/artist trying to live in and make it in Paris ? TMR Editor-in-Chief Jordan Elgrably writes in this

The great anthropologist Susan Slyomovics—known for her study of the Palestinian village of Ein Houd—on being arrested as a seventeen-year-old Barnard student in 1968.

Vol 2 of TSJ features my first ever peer-reviewed journal article! Read my history of the Moroccan Amazigh band Ousman at the link below

Read my latest article on how hybrid watermelon production disrupts local livelihoods in southeastern Morocco. Where Our Herds No Longer Wander jadaliyya.com/Details/46069 via Jadaliyya

Drawing on the case of Usmān (Lightening), Ben Jones's article in this issue revisits the role music played in the work of the Amazigh Cultural Movement in Morocco. An important contribution to the study of Amazigh music. tamazghastudiesjournal.org/articles-sprin…

It was a pleasure to review Meteor Airlines show at Timitar for Iza7a Mag. Read my review then go check them out! iza7a.online/timitar-festiv…

check out my latest article on Paul Bowles, (post)colonial ethnomusicology, and Arab Nationalism in JNAS! feels good when a long germinating project finally gets published tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

A fascinating foray into the works of the Libyan writer, see Jones' latest piece on Muhammad Qashat in AAT: "[who] emerges as a significant thinker and scholar-activist of the transnational Afro-Arab Left in the closing decades of the 20th century..." soufflesmonde.com/posts/decoloni…

I wrote for the latest edition of Souffles Monde about Muhammad Qashat, a Qaddafi-era proponent of Saharan Arab nationalism