Essays in Journals and Ezines

Notes on the Artistic Lineage of the Arab Diaspora in the U.S., Middle East Institute, November 2, 2021

Can Artist Books Be Categorized as Activist Art?, Book Art Theory, College Book Art Association, November 15, 2020.

From P.T. Barnum to the Brooklyn Museum, Jadaliyya, June 20, 2018

Shifts and Measures: A Brief Overview of Art Events in West Asia, Asia Contemporary Art Week’s Field Review Journal in partnership with ArteEast Quarterly, Fall 2017

En el tiempo del cinismo y el duelo, afkar/ideas, no. 53, Spring 2017

Rula Halawani, Protocollum art journal, 2015/16

Mecenazgo artistico en el Golfo: exitos y fracaso, afkar/ideas, no. 47, Autumn 2015

Allegory of a Revolution: José Clemente Orozco’s “The Trench,” Jadaliyya, May 5, 2013

Portrait of America: Kehinde Wiley at the Jewish Museum, Jadaliyya, August 23, 2012

After Daraa, Syrian Art TodayJadaliyya, April 29, 2012

Rethinking Islamic ArtJadaliyya, November 16, 2011

Imagining the Arab World: The Fashioning of the “War on Terror” through Art, Callaloo, vol 32, no. 4, Fall 2009

The Louvre Abu Dhabi: Exploitation and the Politics of the Museum Industry, Zmag, March 27, 2007

Depoliticizing Arab Art: Christie’s and the Rush to “Discover” the Arab World, CounterPunch, December 2, 2006

Contemporary “Islamic” Art in Context: The Discourse of Without Boundary Seventeen Ways of Looking, CounterPunch, March 25, 2006