Newspapers | Magazines
2021
“Frantz Fanon and the crisis of mental health in the Arab world,” Psyche/Aeon Magazine, June 23
Op-ed. “La confiance dans l’autorité publique à l’ère du Covid-19” Libération, June 17 (with Ishac Diwan) (in French)
“The vaccine roll-out in Lebanon: How to avoid another catastrophe?” Al-Mudun, February 18 (in Arabic)
Op-ed. “Covid-19 : L’idée du ‘passeport sanitaire’ n’est pas nouvelle, mais au XIXe siècle, son but était tout autre,” Le Monde, February 11 (in French)
2020
“A Global history of psychiatry through the lens of ‘Asfuriyyeh“, Bidayat Magazine, December (issue no. 28-29), 134-142 (in Arabic)
Op-ed. “Face à la crise sanitaire, une solidarité citoyenne plus que jamais nécessaire,” L’Orient-Le Jour, Septembre 5 (in French)
Op-ed. “L’école au Liban, une ‘longue histoire de rivalités entre puissances étrangères” Le Monde, Septembre 1 (in French)
“Letter from Beirut,” Boston Review, August 19
“Middle East History in the Time of COVID-19: A Roundtable on Disease, Environment, and Medicine,” Jadaliyya, June 9
“In poor countries, focus on protecting the elderly from Covid-19,” The Medium, April 10 (with Ishac Diwan)
“Covid-19 and big data: A footnote,” The Medium, March 30
“Cancer, catharsis et révolution au Liban,” L’Orient-Le Jour, March 14 (in French)
“Cancer, Catharsis, and Corruption in Lebanon,” Jadaliyya, January 29
Other Media
2021
Podcast: Interview with Yannis-Orestis Papadimitriou on the Archipelago/Movement Radio, July 10
LBCI TV show, “Vision 2030”, Episode 17: “Covid-19 vaccination end of a nightmare?”, February, 16 (in Arabic)
“The East is a Podcast”: a reading of a modified excerpt of chapter 5 from ʿAṣfūriyyeh: A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle East, February 8
2020
Video abstract for “Psychiatry in the Middle East: the rebirth of lunatic asylums?” British Journal of Psychiatry International,” December
“The East is a Podcast” interview on the publication of ʿAṣfūriyyeh: A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle East, November 27, 2020
