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