writing
Recipes
Kousa Mahshi Is the Most Delicious Way to Eat Summer Zucchini, Eating Well
This Ancient Egyptian Bread Pudding Is the Ultimate Celebration in a Bowl, Kitchn
Finding Home in a Bowl of Vermicelli Rice, Kitchn
Tofu Shawarma Pita Wraps, Kitchn
Alexandrian calamari tagine recipe, Readers Digest UK
Kahk (Egyptian Celebration Cookies), Food52
Oven-Roasted Egyptian Mesaka’a, Food52
Easy Lamb Shawarma With Tahini Dressing, Food52
Chocolate Liquorice-Chip Cookies, More Than Food Mag
Food Writing
What Is Sumac and How Do You Use It? Eating Well
In South Africa, a Seed Librarian Seeks Ancestral Knowledge, Gastro Obscura
Parusha Naidoo’s cookbook builds community, New Frame
A Coptic Orthodox Christmas: Fasts, Feasts & Plenty of Cheese, Food52
Chef Jane Nshuti is challenging the myth that African food is meat-centric, Art24
How Making My Mother’s Moussaka Helped Me Learn it’s OK to Take Shortcuts, All Recipes
Farm to Table on Stolen Land: Cape Town Dining’s Colonial Fantasies, Vittles
The 7 Incredible Evidence-Based Health Benefits of Dates, The Beet
Tapi Tapi Ice Cream Is a Sweet Education on African Liberation, Gastro Obscura
Male Chefs and the Appropriation of Grandmothers’ Recipes, Comestible
Tahini: A Simple, Healthy, and Delicious Way to Upgrade Your Meals, The Beet
Khanya Mzongwana’s pandemic cookbook tackles mental illness and diet culture, New Frame
8 Hacks for Freshening Up Your Quarantine Meals, Tenderly
Immune-Boosting Foods To Try Right Now, Culture Trip
Black cookbook authors shift the culinary landscape, New Frame
Bellies En-Route: A Food Tour Through the Heart of Cairo, Culture Trip
Syriana: A continent away from Syrian strife, a refuge in food and love, Daily Maverick
MENA on the Menu, Juice Magazine Pgae 53, (Mango Airlines)
Immigrant Cuisines: Spicing and Dicing Cape Town’s Food Culture, Daily Maverick
Why Are We Only Learning To Cook French Food in Africa? Africa is a Country
Where to Find the Best Shawarma in Cape Town, Culture Trip
Other Topics I Write About
On Tahia Carioca.
The Dissident Belly Dancer Who Brought Samba to Egypt, Majuscule
The socialist feminism of Nawal El Saadawi, New Frame
The inescapable Umm Kulthum, New Frame
The 14 Best Labor Movies to Watch on International Workers’ Day, Observer
Socialist success stories: Burkina Faso, Passage
Whispers, Taps, and Tingles: Artists of Color in the ASMR Scene, Healthline
An Introvert’s Guide to Living with People in Quarantine, Healthline
Egyptians stand up against sexual violence, New Frame
In HBO’s ‘Betty,’ NYC Skater Girls Find Freedom in Each Other, Observer
Revisiting “Watchmen,” a New Kind of Superhero Epic, Bitch Media
4 Fat Yoga Influencers Fighting Fatphobia on the Mat, Healthline
In ‘Tigertail,’ Talking Helps an Immigrant Family Heal, Observer
Let Us, Coptic People, Talk About Our Apathy Towards Palestinian Solidarity, Egyptian Streets
Toni Morrison’s Lessons and Why I Had to Quit My MFA Program, Medium
Featured
What’s on Your Table? Christmas Edition. SA POC at the Table