Dr Sarah Jilani is a lecturer in English & a freelance writer on film, books & contemporary art, with bylines in ArtReview, The Economist, The Times Literary Supplement, & more
When wartime Cairo became a hub for Surrealists
Prospero | The Economist | March 2022
David Graeber & David Wengrow’s History of Humanity Asks: When Did We Get Stuck?
ArtReview Jan/Feb 2022 issue
Review: Letters to Gil by Malik Al Nasir
The TLS | January 2022
Review: Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu
The TLS | 13 Aug 2021
Yannis Davy Guibinga’s photographs balance tradition and modernity
The Economist | 10 August 2021
The Catharsis of Zehra Doğan’s Art Behind Bars
ArtReview Asia Summer 2021
The Pioneering Anti-Colonial Feminism of Nawal El Saadawi (1931-2021)
ArtReview | Opinion | March 2021
Review: A Dutiful Boy by Mohsin Zaidi
The TLS | Feb 2021
Review: Girl Decoded by Rana el Kaliouby
The TLS | January 2021
Hajooj Kuka’s art of resilience
The Economist | 3 Nov 2020
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi, review
inews.co.uk | August 2020
What Turning Hagia Sophia into a Mosque Really Means
ArtReview | Opinion | Jul 2020
Underdevelopment by design: Remembering Walter Rodney
The TLS | July 2020
Review: Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
The Stinging Fly | June 2020
Against forgetting
New Humanist | Summer 2020