|Fanfiction Made Me a Literary Scholar” – Electric Literature – January 2026 // https://electricliterature.com/fanfiction-made-me-a-literary-scholar/

Interview with Saidiya Hartman – ArtReview Magazine October 2025 // https://artreview.com/the-interview-saidiya-hartman/

“Towards An Aesthetic Consciousness” – ArtReview Asia Magazine Summer 2025 // https://artreview.com/towards-an-aesthetic-consciousness-opinion-sarah-jilani/

“The Trap of Catchalls” – ArtReview Magazine May 2025 // https://artreview.com/the-trap-of-catchalls-global-south-and-global-majority-are-useless-opinion-sarah-jilani/

“What Does ‘Contemporary Art’ Mean in Oman?” ArtReview Asia Spring 2025 // https://artreview.com/what-does-contemporary-art-mean-in-oman-opinion-sarah-jilani/

“Malian Filmmaker Souleymane Cissé (1940-2025) Taught Us How to See” – Artreview.com – February 2025 // https://artreview.com/malian-filmmaker-souleymane-cisse-1940-2025-taught-us-how-to-see-obituary-sarah-jilani-opinion-african-cinema/

“Why Doesn’t BookTok Think Plot Is Hot?” – Electric Literature – February 2025 // https://electricliterature.com/why-doesnt-booktok-think-plot-is-hot/

“What Happens When Looted Artefacts Return Home?” – ArtReview.com October 2024 // https://artreview.com/what-happens-when-looted-artefacts-return-home-dahomey-mati-diop-review-sarah-jilani/

“The Disordered Museum” – ArtReview September 2024 // https://artreview.com/the-disordered-museum-francoise-verges-interview-sarah-jilani/

“‘Gaza 2035’ Is an Old Colonial Fantasy With a Futuristic Spin” – artreview.com – June 2024 // https://artreview.com/gaza-2035-is-an-old-colonial-fantasy-with-a-futuristic-spin-opinion-sarah-jilani/

“Ahlam Shibli Bears Witness For, and With, Palestinian Lives” – ArtReview Summer 2024 // https://artreview.com/ahlam-shibli-bears-witness-for-and-with-palestinian-lives/

“Why We Need to Change the Art-Repatriation Debate” – ArtReview – March 2023 // https://artreview.com/why-we-need-to-change-the-art-repatriation-debate/

“Jala Wahid Exposes Imperialism’s Coverups” – ArtReview – February 2023 // https://artreview.com/jala-wahid-exposes-imperialisms-coverups-conflagration-baltic-gateshead/

“In the far from diverse publishing industry, sensitivity readers are vital” – The Conversation – February 2023 // https://theconversation.com/in-the-far-from-diverse-publishing-industry-sensitivity-readers-are-vital-199913

“Cecilia Vicuña’s Incomplete Elegy” – ArtReview – October 2022 // https://artreview.com/cecilia-vicunas-incomplete-elegy/

“The Woman King may revive the historical action genre” – The Economist – October 2022 // http://www.economist.com/culture/2022/10/07/the-woman-king-may-revive-the-historical-action-genre

“When wartime Cairo became a hub for Surrealists” – The Economist – March 2022 // https://www.economist.com/culture/2022/03/11/when-wartime-cairo-became-a-hub-for-surrealists

“Mona Hatoum’s ‘Kapan Iki’ (2012)” – ArtReview – July 2022 // https://artreview.com/work-of-the-week-mona-hatoum-kapan-iki-2012/

“The Catharsis of Zehra Doğan’s Art Behind Bars” – ArtReview Asia Summer 2021 // https://artreview.com/the-catharsis-of-zehra-dogan-art-behind-bars/

“The Pioneering Anti-Colonial Feminism of Nawal El Saadawi (1931-2021)” – ArtReview – March 2021 // https://artreview.com/the-pioneering-anti-colonial-feminism-of-nawal-el-saadawi-1931-2021/

“Yannis Davy Guibinga’s photographs balance tradition and modernity” – The Economist – August 2021 // https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/yannis-davy-guibingas-photographs-balance-tradition-and-modernity/21803429

“Hajooj Kuka’s art of resilience” – The Economist – November 2020 // https://www.economist.com/prospero/2020/11/03/hajooj-kukas-art-of-resilience

“Underdevelopment by design: Remembering Walter Rodney” – The Times Literary Supplement – July 2020 // https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/underdeveloped-by-design/

“What Turning Hagia Sophia into a Mosque Really Means” – ArtReview – July 2020 // https://artreview.com/what-turning-hagia-sophia-into-a-mosque-really-means/

“Against forgetting” – New Humanist – Summer 2020 // https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/5636/against-forgetting

“How Fusun Onur has shaped modern art in Turkey” – The Economist – May 2020 // https://www.economist.com/prospero/2020/05/19/how-fusun-onur-has-shaped-modern-art-in-turkey

“How Kunle Afolayan ushered in a new era of Nigerian cinema” – The Economist – February 2020 // https://www.economist.com/prospero/2020/02/05/how-kunle-afolayan-ushered-in-a-new-era-of-nigerian-cinema

“Should the Art World Boycott Turkey?” – Frieze – November 2019 // https://frieze.com/article/should-art-world-boycott-turkey

“Do film festivals help or hurt their host cities?” – The Guardian – September 2019 // https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/sep/11/do-film-festivals-help-or-hurt-their-host-cities-venice-sundance

“How Murals Have Served as Mirrors for Political Change” – Frieze – July 2019 // https://frieze.com/article/how-murals-have-served-mirrors-political-change

“Exploring Geopolitics” – Aesthetica – June 2019 // https://www.aestheticamagazine.com/exploring-geopolitics/

“Anthropological Programming” – Aesthetica – June 2019 // https://www.aestheticamagazine.com/anthropological-programming/

“The documentaries reframing the refugee experience” – Little White Lies – Juen 2019 // https://lwlies.com/articles/for-sama-tiny-souls-documentaries-refugee-crisis/

“What Jokha Alharthi’s Man Booker Win Says About an Unequal Publishing World” – Frieze – May 2019 // https://www.frieze.com/article/what-jokha-alharthis-man-booker-win-says-about-unequal-publishing-world?fbclid=IwAR0a-ZMwPFCGHpKS8-hVR4AuL-xN2Kg9iqVhfkuKBR5dm3M8b0bWxR1GZCw

“How Turkish coffee destroyed an empire” – The Economist’s 1843 Magazine – February 2019 // https://www.economist.com/1843/2019/02/26/how-turkish-coffee-destroyed-an-empire

“Horizontal Solidarity” – The Times Literary Supplement – March 2019 // https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/horizontal-solidarity-decolonization-culture/

“The Wild Pear Tree lays bare the contradictions of Turkish society” – The Economist – January 2019 // https://www.economist.com/prospero/2019/01/30/the-wild-pear-tree-lays-bare-the-contradictions-of-turkish-society

“Things Fall Apart: Chinua Achebe and the languages of African literature” – The Conversation – https://theconversation.com/things-fall-apart-chinua-achebe-and-the-languages-of-african-literature-106006

“Istanbul’s Vanishing Beach Culture” – The Times Literary Supplement – September 2018 // https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/shifting-sands/

“Literature and the lens” – The Times Literary Supplement – October 2018 // https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/literature-and-the-lens/

“The Image You Missed maps familial with ethno-nationalist conflict” – The Economist – September 2018 // https://s3.amazonaws.com/external_clips/2847034/“The_Image_You_Missed”_maps_familial_with_ethno-nationalist_conflict_-_Fathers__sons_and_ghosts.pdf?1536159783

“Six emerging African filmmakers you should know about” – Little White Lies – June 2018 // http://lwlies.com/articles/six-emerging-african-filmmakers-you-should-know-about/

“How to decolonise a museum” – The Times Literary Supplement – June 2018 // https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/how-decolonize-museum/

“How women are collaborating to tell stories that break through the noise on Syria” – The Conversation” – March 2018 // https://theconversation.com/how-women-are-collaborating-to-tell-stories-that-break-through-the-noise-on-syria-93754

“The state of Kurdish cinema” – The Economist – November 2017 // http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2017/11/middle-eastern-culture

“Hashem El Madani and the private lives of the Lebanese” – The Economist – August 2017 // https://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2017/08/portrait-people?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/hashemelmadaniandtheprivatelivesofthelebanese

“English literature – without the empire nostalgia” – The Times Literary Supplement – November 2017 // https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/cambridge-english-curriculum-decolonization/

“The paradoxical position of the Istanbul Biennial” – Apollo Magazine – August 2017 // https://www.apollo-magazine.com/the-paradoxical-position-of-the-istanbul-biennial/

“Image-making in Springtime: Animation film in the Middle East” – The Times Literary Supplement – August 2017 // https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/image-making-springtime/

“Partition on screen: five essential films” – Little White Lies – August 2017 // http://lwlies.com/articles/films-about-the-partition-of-india/#.WZLsX0aDMnI.twitter

“Where to begin with Satyajit Ray” – British Film Institute – May 2017 // http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/where-begin-satyajit-ray

“Beyond Bollywood: Realism, Indian cinema’s parallel success story” – The Economist – May 2017 // http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2017/05/beyond-bollywood

“Bob Marley, before he was an icon” – The Economist – January 2017 // http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2017/01/simply-spliffing

“In praise of Mbissine Thérèse Diop in Ousmane Sembène’s Black Girl” – British Film Institute – December 2016 // https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/praise-mbissine-therese-diop-ousmane-sembenes-black-girl

“Cinema’s Black Pioneers” – The Economist’s 1843 Magazine – January 2017 // https://www.1843magazine.com/culture/the-daily/cinemas-black-pioneers

“Syrian culture flourishes in Istanbul” – The Economist’s 1843 Magazine – October 2016 // https://www.economist.com/1843/2016/10/06/syrian-culture-flourishes-in-istanbul

“Three Years On: The Artistic Legacy of Istanbul’s Gezi Park Protests” – ArtReview – September 2016 // https://s3.amazonaws.com/external_clips/2094025/Gezi_Jilani_ARA_SEP_2016.pdf?1474302929

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