essays

This Egyptian Grain Bowl Is the Pantry Wonder-Dish We Need Right Now, Eater, May 13, 2020.

Couscous: Light Enough to Travel, ArabLit Quarterly, Spring 2020.

Bastila and the Archives of Unwritten Things, The Maydan, November 27, 2019.

Ask Abla Nazira: Nazira Nicola, The Doyenne of Modern Egyptian Cooking. Rawi: Egypt’s Heritage Review, November 2019.

Ideology Never Cooked a Duck: A Recipe for Roast Duck, Egyptian Style, Scribe: The Magazine of the American Research Center in Egypt, Fall 2019.

Medieval Arabic Recipes and the History of Hummus, on The Recipes Project, March 27, 2018.

Seeking Primus Stoves in North Africa, on the Social Science Research Council blog Research Matters, August 1, 2017. 

Egypt, Laughter, and the History of Emotions, on the History of Emotions Blog of the Queen Mary Centre for the History of Emotions, March 7, 2016.

Cooking with Naguib Mahfouz, on ArabLit, February 29, 2016.

The Recipe as Colonial Archive, series of three blog posts for tajine exploring the recipes of Zette Guinaudeau, a French settler living in protectorate-era Morocco. See installments here, here, and here. 2015-16.

Translation as Mourning, Translation as a 'Form of Cultural Interrogation,' on ArabLit, June 29, 2014.

Mediating Morocco, an essay exploring the politics of representations of women on Moroccan postcards from the colonial era through today, in [wherever]: an out of place journal. January 2014.

“Anthropology and the Peace Corps: Five decades of learning to learn about culture,” in WorldView magazine, Spring 2013.

Romance, Not Romanticized: Three Stories of Love and Loss from the Boston Palestine Film Festival, in Jadaliyya, October 24, 2011.

Hope, Translated, review of Laila Lalami’s Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits and Tahar Ben Jelloun’s A Palace in the Old Village, in Jadaliyya, August 3, 2011.

From Dance to Transcendence, review of Dunia: Kiss Me Not on the Eyes, in Jadaliyya, June 13, 2011.


interviews & mentions

Food Studies in the Arab World: An Interview, Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics 44 (2024), 145-67

Tabkh al-afandiyya wa-tamatim ʿind ʿAbd al-Nassir (Efendiyya Cooking and Tomatoes under Gamal Abdel Nasser), by Mohamed Al-Rabiuo in al-Quds al-ʿArabi, March 2024.

Food Historian and Assistant Professor of Arabic Anny Gaul Receives NEH Grant, by Liz Tracy, University of Maryland College of Arts & Humanities, July 6, 2023.

Tomatoes, Fibreglass and the Persistence of the Human, by Ismail Fayed, in Local Origins Propaganda Persistence magazine (2023), commissioned by FOR space gallery in Basel in conjunction with sculptor Yasmine El Meleegy’s solo show “Future Farms.”

Making Levantine Cuisine: New Texts Out Now, interview in Jadaliyya, March 11, 2022.

A “Simultaneously Hidden and Deliciously Obvious” History of Levantine Cuisine, interview in The Nation, February 22, 2022.

Beyond Recipes: How Anny Gaul Studies Cookbooks, by Vicki Valosik, CCAS Newsmagazine, Winter/Spring 2022.

Who Is Responsible for Dessert Hummus?, by Jaya Saxena, January 7, 2022.

Cooking Taro: Egypt’s Famous Epiphany Dish, by Amira Howeidy, Ahram Online, January 19, 2021.

Food and Gender in Egypt & Morocco: Afikra Conversations, December 17, 2020.

Middle Eastern Food: Six Lenses, by Barbara Petzen, The Geography Teacher, September 2020.

Kitchen Talk, interview on Bulaq podcast, June 4, 2020.

#TetaThursdays, Instagram Live conversation with Tony Tahhan (@antoniotahhan), May 7, 2020.

How Anny Gaul Does History, interview in Contingent Magazine, April 17, 2020.

Medieval Arabic cookbooks: Reviving the taste of history, Al Jazeera, March 13th, 2020.

La cuisine marocaine, un mélange de civilisations, traditions et cultures (French) / Moroccan cuisine, a melting pot of peoples and cultures (English), interview on YaBiladi, January 9, 2020.

Food for Thought: A Discussion with Former ARCE Fellow Anny Gaul, interview in Scribe: The Magazine of the American Research Center in Egypt, Fall 2019.

10 Recipes from Medieval Arabic Texts, ArabLit, November 28, 2019.

Blogs You Should Be Adding to Your Bookmarks, HAZINE: A Guide to Researching the Middle East and Beyond, March 28, 2019.

The Cuisine of Tetouan, podcast recorded at the Tangier American Legation Institute for Maghrib Studies, Tangier, Morocco, October 24, 2018.

Cooking with the Benalis: a recipe for makouda, airy potato croquettes, NRC Handelsblad, the Netherlands, August 17, 2018.

Kitchen Tales from Egypt and Morocco, interview segment on Late Night Live, Radio National Australia, February 8, 2018.

A Baker's Dozen of Food History Blogs, Rachel Laudan: A Historian's Take on Food and Food Politics, November 17, 2017.

Judhabat Tabbalah Recipe From Scents and Flavors: "It Comes Out Very Nicely," Library of Arabic Literature blog, October 30, 2017.

Reviving the Forgotten Flavours of the Ottoman Palace Kitchen, by Stephanie D'Arc Taylor, Middle East Eye, August 10, 2015.

The Carton - Jazz Manouche - Spring 2014, The Culturist blog, April 10, 2014.

Shahrazad's Pharmacy: Literary Objects That Delight and Instruct, by Will Barnes, ArabLit, March 25, 2014.

The Sounds of Cairo, by Razan Al Zayani, The Carton: Jazz Manouche, no. 9, Spring 2014.


public talks & events

Moderator, book launch for A Seat at the Table: The Making of Busboys and Poets, by Andy Shallal, Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, University of Maryland, College Park. March 2025.

Mukawen: Bayda awla hamra? Community meal & installation, Kusbarra Collective, Cairo, Egypt, February 2024. In collaboration with Nour Kamel & Mariam Boctor.

Speaker, “The Diverse Roots of the North African Kitchen: How Migration and Cultural Exchange Made Moroccan Food Delicious,” Prince George’s County Memorial Library System Festival of Cultures, October 2022.

Interview with Syrian Cookbook Author Anas Atassi, streamed as part of event Gastropolitics, Gastropoetics: Celebrating Radical Cookbooks. Radical Books Collective, December 2021.

Panelist, “Taste of Identity: Cuisine, Performance, and Aesthetics,” Salon Sophie Charlotte, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, January 18, 2020.

Organizer, Making Middle Eastern Cuisine, a public program featuring six speakers and a tasting at the Smithsonian’s Freer|Sackler in Washington, DC, June 8, 2019.

“Tarikh al-Matbakh fi al-Maghrib wa-Masr” (Kitchen Histories in Egypt and Morocco), Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM), Tangier, Morocco, March 9, 2017.