French Arabness
- My elusive pain – Aeon Mag
- Blood Antiquities, Arab Tears – Ploughshares
Tunisia
- Angelic Swords, Blushing Brides and Savvy Aunties — Inside the World of Tunisia’s Bards – New Lines Magazine
- Atlas Lions’ Eyes Burn Brightly, but Their Future May Be Dark – New Lines Magazine
- Finding Zenobia – Adi Magazine
- Tunisian Afterglows, Chronic Collision – Mizna
- How Tunisia inspired Kandinsky and enabled expressionist art – Middle East Eye
Art
- Take Me to Tassili – ArtReview
- The Rise of the Contemporary Artist-Historian – Observer
- The Met Explores Africa’s Lasting Impact On the Mediterranean World – Observer
- Elsewhere Museums: Can the ethnographic museum be reinvented? – The Nation
Other essays
- Bahamut, or the Salt of the Earth – The Markaz Review (included in The Best of the Markaz Review, an anthology)
- Mamadou Sarr and Paulin Soumanou Vieyra’s Afrique sur Seine – The Brooklyn Rail