Selected Essays

July 2019
On Resigning From the British Museum’s Board of Trustees
London Review of Books Blog

January 2017
Jerusalem
This Is Not A Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature

January 2016
Voices from a Man-Made Catastrophe
Times Literary Supplement

January 2011 onwards
Collected Dispatches from the Egyptian Revolution
The Guardian

May 2010
The Dig Dividing Jerusalem
The Guardian

January 2009
Talking to the Dead
The Guardian

July 2008
Visions of the Harem
The Guardian

June 2004
Mezzaterra: The Introduction

2003
Introduction to Jean Genet’s Prisoner of Love

April 2002
Do Something
The Guardian

December 2000
Under the Gun
The Guardian

July 1985
Passing Through: William Golding’s ‘Egyptian Journal’
London Review of Books