Marya Hannun
@maryahannun.bsky.social
Managing Editor of MERIP.
Post doctoral researcher at University of Exeter’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies.
Post doctoral researcher at University of Exeter’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies.
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“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles
Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.
www.thecity.nyc
November 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
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Introducing the Palestinian Foodways Bibliography: a collaborative effort to collate, document, and honor the myriad writing, research, and other forms of documented knowledge about Palestinian foodways.
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www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46984
Palestinian Foodways Bibliography
This bibliography collates the rich body of writing, research, and other forms of documented knowledge (scholarly and otherwise) produced about Palestinian foodways — broadly conceived to include agri...
www.jadaliyya.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Introducing the Palestinian Foodways Bibliography: a collaborative effort to collate, document, and honor the myriad writing, research, and other forms of documented knowledge about Palestinian foodways.
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46984
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46984
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On women in the revolution from our spring issue, with @maryahannun.bsky.social and Raga Makkawi. www.merip.org/2025/06/shif...
Shifting Feminist Narratives in Sudan—A Conversation with Raga Makawi - MERIP
Women and the gender dynamics behind Sudan's revolution and war.
www.merip.org
October 31, 2025 at 4:30 PM
On women in the revolution from our spring issue, with @maryahannun.bsky.social and Raga Makkawi. www.merip.org/2025/06/shif...
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It’s soup season and Nile Nightshade’s publication day is almost here! Read on for an Egyptian lentil soup recipe, a preview of the book’s content, and info about an incredible new art installation (featuring tomatoes, of course) by Yasmine El Meleegy.
cookingwithgaul.com/2025/09/21/t...
cookingwithgaul.com/2025/09/21/t...
Turn up the tomato: a lentil soup for cooler days
My book Nile Nightshade: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato is now available to preorder. For each book ordered and each library request reported here between now and the book’s publi…
cookingwithgaul.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
It’s soup season and Nile Nightshade’s publication day is almost here! Read on for an Egyptian lentil soup recipe, a preview of the book’s content, and info about an incredible new art installation (featuring tomatoes, of course) by Yasmine El Meleegy.
cookingwithgaul.com/2025/09/21/t...
cookingwithgaul.com/2025/09/21/t...
The DC Palestinian Film & Arts Festival starts next week, and it's not to be missed. Tickets here www.dcpfaf.org/2025
2025 Program — DCPFAF
The 2025 DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival program is LIVE!
www.dcpfaf.org
September 29, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The DC Palestinian Film & Arts Festival starts next week, and it's not to be missed. Tickets here www.dcpfaf.org/2025
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Introducing NILE NIGHTSHADE: AN EGYPTIAN CULINARY HISTORY OF THE TOMATO, coming this October from @ucpress.bsky.social. Read on for details about a preorder promotion I'm running to raise money for mutual aid, a zine giveaway, and a preview of the book. 🧵: (1/9)
August 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Introducing NILE NIGHTSHADE: AN EGYPTIAN CULINARY HISTORY OF THE TOMATO, coming this October from @ucpress.bsky.social. Read on for details about a preorder promotion I'm running to raise money for mutual aid, a zine giveaway, and a preview of the book. 🧵: (1/9)
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Read about the interplay of working-class masculinity, anti-Afghan racism & tennis in Iran in my piece on @merip.bsky.social. Immense gratitude for Gol Agha Azizi, Farnaz & Mohammad Reza Jurabchian & @maryahannun.bsky.social. This piece was finalized before June 13, 2025.
merip.org/2025/06/bann...
merip.org/2025/06/bann...
Courts of Exclusion—Working-Class Masculinity and Anti-Afghan Racism in Iran - MERIP
n 2016, Gol Agha, a ball boy and worker at a private tennis club in Tajrish—an affluent neighborhood in northern Tehran—went to an administrative office in Karaj to receive a […]
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June 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Read about the interplay of working-class masculinity, anti-Afghan racism & tennis in Iran in my piece on @merip.bsky.social. Immense gratitude for Gol Agha Azizi, Farnaz & Mohammad Reza Jurabchian & @maryahannun.bsky.social. This piece was finalized before June 13, 2025.
merip.org/2025/06/bann...
merip.org/2025/06/bann...
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My latest post is all about weeka, a technique for cooking okra that is shared between Egyptian and Sudanese food cultures: cookingwithgaul.com/2025/07/27/w...
Weeka: Nile Valley Okra
Much of the history of the tomato in Egypt — the subject of Nile Nightshade, my forthcoming book — is oriented north and east. The tomato linked Turkey and Egypt through Ottoman cuisine’s embrace o…
cookingwithgaul.com
August 3, 2025 at 11:42 PM
My latest post is all about weeka, a technique for cooking okra that is shared between Egyptian and Sudanese food cultures: cookingwithgaul.com/2025/07/27/w...
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To see Arabic-language media outlets engaging with this exploration of Egypt’s cassette culture means the world to me, and to have the book be mentioned alongside the work of Lucie Ryzova and @annygaul.bsky.social is an honor. Alf shukr to al-Quds al-Arabi for this thoughtful review!
April 5, 2025 at 11:32 AM
To see Arabic-language media outlets engaging with this exploration of Egypt’s cassette culture means the world to me, and to have the book be mentioned alongside the work of Lucie Ryzova and @annygaul.bsky.social is an honor. Alf shukr to al-Quds al-Arabi for this thoughtful review!
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*Podcast Alert* I had the extraordinary pleasure to discuss my book Sufi Civilities (@stanfordpress.bsky.social ) with the delightful @bcheves.bsky.social for @ajammc.bsky.social find our conversation on their website or Spotify #afghanistan #anthropology #sufism
***new podcast alert!***
@bcheves.bsky.social interviews @annikaschmeding.bsky.social about her first book, Sufi Civilities: Religious Authority and Political Change in Afghanistan (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2023). Listen here: ajammc.com/2025/03/03/a...
@bcheves.bsky.social interviews @annikaschmeding.bsky.social about her first book, Sufi Civilities: Religious Authority and Political Change in Afghanistan (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2023). Listen here: ajammc.com/2025/03/03/a...
March 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
*Podcast Alert* I had the extraordinary pleasure to discuss my book Sufi Civilities (@stanfordpress.bsky.social ) with the delightful @bcheves.bsky.social for @ajammc.bsky.social find our conversation on their website or Spotify #afghanistan #anthropology #sufism
On the six year anniversary of the Sudanese uprisings, revisiting this conversation with Rabab Elnaiem for @merip.bsky.social on 'Sustaining Sudan's Revolution' in the context of the current counterrevolutionary war. merip.org/2024/04/a-co...
Sustaining Sudan’s Revolution–A Conversation with Rabab Elnaiem - MERIP
Rabab Elnaiem is a Sudanese activist, labor organizer and former spokesperson for an alliance of labor unions, currently based in the United States. On April 2, 2024, she spoke to MERIP’s managing edi...
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December 19, 2024 at 8:27 PM
On the six year anniversary of the Sudanese uprisings, revisiting this conversation with Rabab Elnaiem for @merip.bsky.social on 'Sustaining Sudan's Revolution' in the context of the current counterrevolutionary war. merip.org/2024/04/a-co...
Just got my copy of @sfahrenthold.bsky.social’s richly detailed and beautifully stitched together book: Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work and the Syrian American Working Class. 1/
December 9, 2024 at 9:05 PM
Just got my copy of @sfahrenthold.bsky.social’s richly detailed and beautifully stitched together book: Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work and the Syrian American Working Class. 1/
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Killed by Israel for his complicity in not starving the population.
"Targeted & Assassinated": Gaza Soup Kitchen Chef Mahmoud Almadhoun Killed by Israeli Drone
Gaza Soup Kitchen Chef Mahmoud Almadhoun Killed by Israeli Drone
Israel killed more than 200 Palestinians in Gaza on Saturday, including 40 members of a single family. The official death toll in Gaza is now over 44,000, although experts believe that is a vast undercount...
www.democracynow.org
December 3, 2024 at 4:33 AM
Killed by Israel for his complicity in not starving the population.
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November 21, 2024 at 2:32 AM
Reading this alongside Dylan Saba’s prescient analysis from last March www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
November 20, 2024 at 10:21 AM
Reading this alongside Dylan Saba’s prescient analysis from last March www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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This is happening now in Beirut.
X, as horrific as it got, is a loudspeaker for the silenced. I am still there because of it. We must get intentional about circulating the horrors in Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan if we intend to make this the just alternative.
X, as horrific as it got, is a loudspeaker for the silenced. I am still there because of it. We must get intentional about circulating the horrors in Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan if we intend to make this the just alternative.
#Israel’i air strikes just flattened these residential apartment blocks in #Beirut. You can hear shocked screams of people in the street below as the missiles hit & the buildings collapse in just seconds. This is the daily reality of life in #Lebanon’s capital now.
November 17, 2024 at 4:38 PM
This is happening now in Beirut.
X, as horrific as it got, is a loudspeaker for the silenced. I am still there because of it. We must get intentional about circulating the horrors in Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan if we intend to make this the just alternative.
X, as horrific as it got, is a loudspeaker for the silenced. I am still there because of it. We must get intentional about circulating the horrors in Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan if we intend to make this the just alternative.
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In light of the recent loss of our co-founder and longtime editor Joe Stork, we’ve compiled a short guide to his writing at MERIP and elsewhere. Here’s hoping you find it useful! merip.org/2024/11/joe-...
Joe Stork and MERIP - MERIP
In light of his passing, a guide to MERIP founder, Joe Stork's contributions to the publication.
merip.org
November 14, 2024 at 2:55 PM
In light of the recent loss of our co-founder and longtime editor Joe Stork, we’ve compiled a short guide to his writing at MERIP and elsewhere. Here’s hoping you find it useful! merip.org/2024/11/joe-...
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Friends and comrades, welcome! We have a MERIP starter pack for you! Follow our contributors, editors, staff and fellow travelers!
November 14, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Friends and comrades, welcome! We have a MERIP starter pack for you! Follow our contributors, editors, staff and fellow travelers!
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For those in NY: I’ll be talking about my book (plus some implications for the current context in Palestine) next Wednesday evening 11/20 at the CUNY Grad Center, with Jillian Schwedler as my discussant: www.gc.cuny.edu/events/book-...
Book Conversations at MEMEAC: Diana Greenwald will discuss her "Mayors in the Middle: Indirect Rule and Local Government in Occupied Palestine"
www.gc.cuny.edu
November 14, 2024 at 6:44 PM
For those in NY: I’ll be talking about my book (plus some implications for the current context in Palestine) next Wednesday evening 11/20 at the CUNY Grad Center, with Jillian Schwedler as my discussant: www.gc.cuny.edu/events/book-...
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The only nice news I’ve seen out of the US since last Tuesday…
November 14, 2024 at 2:14 PM
The only nice news I’ve seen out of the US since last Tuesday…
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Here it is! A Starter Pack for Middle East News
A couple things
1) Inclusion in this list should not be taken as an endorsement, this is to crystalize the MENA ecosystem so it can grow
2) Limit's 150, so if I missed you, hit me in the replies & I'll get you in the next one
go.bsky.app/2pjNYfP
A couple things
1) Inclusion in this list should not be taken as an endorsement, this is to crystalize the MENA ecosystem so it can grow
2) Limit's 150, so if I missed you, hit me in the replies & I'll get you in the next one
go.bsky.app/2pjNYfP
November 13, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Here it is! A Starter Pack for Middle East News
A couple things
1) Inclusion in this list should not be taken as an endorsement, this is to crystalize the MENA ecosystem so it can grow
2) Limit's 150, so if I missed you, hit me in the replies & I'll get you in the next one
go.bsky.app/2pjNYfP
A couple things
1) Inclusion in this list should not be taken as an endorsement, this is to crystalize the MENA ecosystem so it can grow
2) Limit's 150, so if I missed you, hit me in the replies & I'll get you in the next one
go.bsky.app/2pjNYfP
Tonight! Looking forward to this discussion and Special Issue launch at LSE
November 13, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Tonight! Looking forward to this discussion and Special Issue launch at LSE
MER's fall issue, 'Carceral Realities and Freedom Dreams,' is here! It was edited by @lisahajjar.bsky.social Basil Farraj Jacob Mundy and Kanwal Hameed, and has several really important pieces about forms of un-freedom and resistance to them.
merip.org/magazine/312/
merip.org/magazine/312/
October 17, 2024 at 4:14 PM
MER's fall issue, 'Carceral Realities and Freedom Dreams,' is here! It was edited by @lisahajjar.bsky.social Basil Farraj Jacob Mundy and Kanwal Hameed, and has several really important pieces about forms of un-freedom and resistance to them.
merip.org/magazine/312/
merip.org/magazine/312/