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Chris El-kholy 🧿
@chriselkholy.bsky.social
online editor @ new lines magazine

journalist & aspiring street cat photographer

toronto by way of cairo

[@chrysographer on the platform formerly known as twitter]
LIVING WITH DRONES is an interactive live journalism show that my friends & I @stitchedstudio.bsky.social have been sharing. It confronts the devastating impact of Israel's use of drones in the besieged Gaza Strip.
We’ve got a show coming up next week in Ottawa:
www.eventbrite.ca/e/living-wit...
September 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM
July 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Today is my three year anniversary @newlinesmag.bsky.social
I’m so grateful to have found a home where I get to work alongside some of the best editors and writers out there, covering some of the most interesting stories. Looking around the industry, I know I really lucked out here ❤️
May 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
‼️DC friends:

We’re bringing our live journalism show “Living with Drones: Stories in Gaza on the impact on life, land and livelihood” to you on May 3 & 4 in collaboration with @MPPDC! More details and tickets here:

museumofpalestinianpeople.app.neoncrm.com/nx/portal/ne...
April 28, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Palm Sunday commemorates Jesus' entry into Jerusalem atop a donkey as crowds who were desperate for peace, justice & liberation from Roman rule greeted him— the promised Messiah. Today Palestinians living under occupation, displacement & genocide are calling out for justice, liberation. Who listens?
April 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Our podcast episode ft.
@arwadamon.bsky.social in conversation with @faisalalyafai.bsky.social about her recent time on the ground in Gaza is up for a well-deserved
Webby Award in the "Best Interview" category! Please spend a few seconds voting for it:
vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...
April 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
“What is a doctor, in a place like this? I know the pathophysiology. Every biochemical mechanism by which her lungs are strangling her. But I cannot save her. The Hippocratic oath feels like a farce here. What do I say? “Die cleaner”? “Choke slower”?”
March 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
basically.
March 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
📣 Excited to bring “Living with Drones,” our live journalism experience about the traumatic impact of Israeli drone warfare on Gaza, to Toronto on Feb. 28 & March 1. It ties together first-person stories, wartime diaries, live Palestinian music & poetry.
Tix & info:
theatrecentre.org/event/living...
February 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
happy bday to me 🎂
January 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
“In November 2016, in an op-ed in the New York Times, 92-year-old Jimmy Carter implored then-President Barack Obama that he “must” take a “vital step” before his term expired and “grant American diplomatic recognition to the state of Palestine.”

Read the full essay below:
December 30, 2024 at 12:09 AM
The grieving father of one-month-old Joma'a Batran speaks about the tragic death of his newborn son due to the extreme cold in their displacement tent in Gaza:
December 29, 2024 at 4:14 PM
"Through his vivid, day-to-day chronicles, Abu Saif personalizes the ceaseless specter of war, offering us a necessary perspective on the civilian toll of Israeli bombardments."

My choice for this year's top read was easily "The Drone Eats with Me: A Gaza Diary" 📚
December 23, 2024 at 8:53 PM
The gift that keeps on giving 🎁

Immerse yourself in the best writing from around the world this holiday season by becoming a Print Plus subscriber with @newlinesmag.bsky.social: newlinesmag.com/become-a-mem...
December 23, 2024 at 1:18 PM
📰
December 20, 2024 at 1:39 AM
Ammar al-Beik, untitled (2017)

[Seen at Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, 2020]
December 7, 2024 at 5:29 PM
🥲🐈🐈‍⬛
December 1, 2024 at 9:26 PM
And Obama was once a student of Khalidi, and then fellow instructor at U of Chicago with the author (see photo). But guess what—that didn’t stop Obama from propping Israel’s terror campaigns against Palestinians
November 30, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Egypt is one of the world’s top producers of strawberries and the season for growing just started. I spent the day in Toukh, Qalyubia, which hosts some of the best-known fields. After sampling some, I quickly understood why they’re so renowned. 🍓🍓🍓
November 30, 2024 at 3:17 PM
Sunset over Alexandria
November 27, 2024 at 7:56 PM
by Muna Dawn Hijazi
November 24, 2024 at 5:51 PM
POV: you’re trying to open an alt news website under Egypt’s draconian censorship laws
November 22, 2024 at 9:11 AM
WFH but then this is home
November 19, 2024 at 10:38 AM
One of the best features of this app is that when you block someone, you really block them 👋🏼❌🙅🏻‍♀️
November 19, 2024 at 6:59 AM
Before there was Google, we had:
October 10, 2023 at 10:20 PM