ROZINA ALI
Rozina Ali is a fellow at Type Media Center. Her reporting and essays on the Middle East, the War on Terror, and Islamophobia in the United States have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, the Guardian, New York Times, Al Jazeera America, Foreign Policy, Los Angeles Review of Books, and others. She was on the editorial staff of The New Yorker from 2015 to 2019, and was previously a senior editor at the Cairo Review of Global Affairs based in Cairo, Egypt.
Recent Highlights
Essential Business
Keeping the Bronx fed in the midst of a pandemic
By Rozina Ali in Harper’s.
The Iraq War Paved the Way for Coronavirus Catastrophe
In early April, a video of an elderly woman in what looks to be a makeshift isolation ward in Iraq circulated widely on WhatsApp.
By Rozina Ali in Foreign Affairs.
A Hunger Strike in ICE Detention
Ajay Kumar, an asylum seeker from India, went on a hunger strike to protest the “animal-like treatment” he faced in ice custody.
By Rozina Ali in The New Yorker.
It’s Time for the Democratic Candidates to Talk About the Muslim Ban
Trump’s policy is no longer in the spotlight, but the ban on visitors from Muslim-majority countries is still separating American families.
By Rozina Ali in The American Prospect.
The Kashmiri Narrative
For many Kashmiris, the media’s persistent focus on the India-Pakistan binary misses a key part of the story.
By Rozina Ali in the Columbia Journalism Review.
Forty Thousand Syrian Refugees Remain Trapped In A U.S.-Created No Man’s Land
The United Nations, ostensibly the only international organization that can provide aid to people in Rukban, is beholden to states that have little incentive to help the people living there.
By Rozina Ali in the New Yorker.
Marijuana Comes to Coalinga
The weed business promised to save this struggling California town. So far, it’s been a bust.
By Rozina Ali in the Nation.
The Erasure of Islam From the Poetry of Rumi
An unusual tapestry of influences set Rumi apart from many of his contemporaries.
By Rozina Ali in the New Yorker.
The Bodega Strike Against Trump’s Executive Order On Immigration
The community wanted to send a message: this is what New York would look like without Yemeni-Americans.
By Rozina Ali in the New Yorker.
Egypt’s al-Jazeera Trial was Inspired by America’s Global War on Journalism
From a War on Terror to a war on leaks, now comes America’s shadow influence on a media crackdown.
By Rozina Ali in the Guardian.