Chris El-kholy 🧿
@chriselkholy.bsky.social
journalist by training/ media critic by necessity⠀
online editor @newlinesmag.bsky.social
toronto by way of cairo
[@chrysographer on the platform formerly known as twitter]
online editor @newlinesmag.bsky.social
toronto by way of cairo
[@chrysographer on the platform formerly known as twitter]
LIVING WITH DRONES is an interactive live journalism show that my friends & I @stitchedstudio.bsky.social have been sharing. It confronts the devastating impact of Israel's use of drones in the besieged Gaza Strip.
We’ve got a show coming up next week in Ottawa:
www.eventbrite.ca/e/living-wit...
We’ve got a show coming up next week in Ottawa:
www.eventbrite.ca/e/living-wit...
September 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM
LIVING WITH DRONES is an interactive live journalism show that my friends & I @stitchedstudio.bsky.social have been sharing. It confronts the devastating impact of Israel's use of drones in the besieged Gaza Strip.
We’ve got a show coming up next week in Ottawa:
www.eventbrite.ca/e/living-wit...
We’ve got a show coming up next week in Ottawa:
www.eventbrite.ca/e/living-wit...
Today is my three year anniversary @newlinesmag.bsky.social
I’m so grateful to have found a home where I get to work alongside some of the best editors and writers out there, covering some of the most interesting stories. Looking around the industry, I know I really lucked out here ❤️
I’m so grateful to have found a home where I get to work alongside some of the best editors and writers out there, covering some of the most interesting stories. Looking around the industry, I know I really lucked out here ❤️
May 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Today is my three year anniversary @newlinesmag.bsky.social
I’m so grateful to have found a home where I get to work alongside some of the best editors and writers out there, covering some of the most interesting stories. Looking around the industry, I know I really lucked out here ❤️
I’m so grateful to have found a home where I get to work alongside some of the best editors and writers out there, covering some of the most interesting stories. Looking around the industry, I know I really lucked out here ❤️
‼️DC friends:
We’re bringing our live journalism show “Living with Drones: Stories in Gaza on the impact on life, land and livelihood” to you on May 3 & 4 in collaboration with @MPPDC! More details and tickets here:
museumofpalestinianpeople.app.neoncrm.com/nx/portal/ne...
We’re bringing our live journalism show “Living with Drones: Stories in Gaza on the impact on life, land and livelihood” to you on May 3 & 4 in collaboration with @MPPDC! More details and tickets here:
museumofpalestinianpeople.app.neoncrm.com/nx/portal/ne...
April 28, 2025 at 12:36 AM
‼️DC friends:
We’re bringing our live journalism show “Living with Drones: Stories in Gaza on the impact on life, land and livelihood” to you on May 3 & 4 in collaboration with @MPPDC! More details and tickets here:
museumofpalestinianpeople.app.neoncrm.com/nx/portal/ne...
We’re bringing our live journalism show “Living with Drones: Stories in Gaza on the impact on life, land and livelihood” to you on May 3 & 4 in collaboration with @MPPDC! More details and tickets here:
museumofpalestinianpeople.app.neoncrm.com/nx/portal/ne...
Palm Sunday commemorates Jesus' entry into Jerusalem atop a donkey as crowds who were desperate for peace, justice & liberation from Roman rule greeted him— the promised Messiah. Today Palestinians living under occupation, displacement & genocide are calling out for justice, liberation. Who listens?
April 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Palm Sunday commemorates Jesus' entry into Jerusalem atop a donkey as crowds who were desperate for peace, justice & liberation from Roman rule greeted him— the promised Messiah. Today Palestinians living under occupation, displacement & genocide are calling out for justice, liberation. Who listens?
Our podcast episode ft.
@arwadamon.bsky.social in conversation with @faisalalyafai.bsky.social about her recent time on the ground in Gaza is up for a well-deserved
Webby Award in the "Best Interview" category! Please spend a few seconds voting for it:
vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...
@arwadamon.bsky.social in conversation with @faisalalyafai.bsky.social about her recent time on the ground in Gaza is up for a well-deserved
Webby Award in the "Best Interview" category! Please spend a few seconds voting for it:
vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...
April 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Our podcast episode ft.
@arwadamon.bsky.social in conversation with @faisalalyafai.bsky.social about her recent time on the ground in Gaza is up for a well-deserved
Webby Award in the "Best Interview" category! Please spend a few seconds voting for it:
vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...
@arwadamon.bsky.social in conversation with @faisalalyafai.bsky.social about her recent time on the ground in Gaza is up for a well-deserved
Webby Award in the "Best Interview" category! Please spend a few seconds voting for it:
vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...
“What is a doctor, in a place like this? I know the pathophysiology. Every biochemical mechanism by which her lungs are strangling her. But I cannot save her. The Hippocratic oath feels like a farce here. What do I say? “Die cleaner”? “Choke slower”?”
March 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
“What is a doctor, in a place like this? I know the pathophysiology. Every biochemical mechanism by which her lungs are strangling her. But I cannot save her. The Hippocratic oath feels like a farce here. What do I say? “Die cleaner”? “Choke slower”?”
📣 Excited to bring “Living with Drones,” our live journalism experience about the traumatic impact of Israeli drone warfare on Gaza, to Toronto on Feb. 28 & March 1. It ties together first-person stories, wartime diaries, live Palestinian music & poetry.
Tix & info:
theatrecentre.org/event/living...
Tix & info:
theatrecentre.org/event/living...
February 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
📣 Excited to bring “Living with Drones,” our live journalism experience about the traumatic impact of Israeli drone warfare on Gaza, to Toronto on Feb. 28 & March 1. It ties together first-person stories, wartime diaries, live Palestinian music & poetry.
Tix & info:
theatrecentre.org/event/living...
Tix & info:
theatrecentre.org/event/living...
happy bday to me 🎂
January 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
happy bday to me 🎂
“In November 2016, in an op-ed in the New York Times, 92-year-old Jimmy Carter implored then-President Barack Obama that he “must” take a “vital step” before his term expired and “grant American diplomatic recognition to the state of Palestine.”
Read the full essay below:
Read the full essay below:
December 30, 2024 at 12:09 AM
“In November 2016, in an op-ed in the New York Times, 92-year-old Jimmy Carter implored then-President Barack Obama that he “must” take a “vital step” before his term expired and “grant American diplomatic recognition to the state of Palestine.”
Read the full essay below:
Read the full essay below:
The grieving father of one-month-old Joma'a Batran speaks about the tragic death of his newborn son due to the extreme cold in their displacement tent in Gaza:
December 29, 2024 at 4:14 PM
The grieving father of one-month-old Joma'a Batran speaks about the tragic death of his newborn son due to the extreme cold in their displacement tent in Gaza:
"Through his vivid, day-to-day chronicles, Abu Saif personalizes the ceaseless specter of war, offering us a necessary perspective on the civilian toll of Israeli bombardments."
My choice for this year's top read was easily "The Drone Eats with Me: A Gaza Diary" 📚
My choice for this year's top read was easily "The Drone Eats with Me: A Gaza Diary" 📚
December 23, 2024 at 8:53 PM
"Through his vivid, day-to-day chronicles, Abu Saif personalizes the ceaseless specter of war, offering us a necessary perspective on the civilian toll of Israeli bombardments."
My choice for this year's top read was easily "The Drone Eats with Me: A Gaza Diary" 📚
My choice for this year's top read was easily "The Drone Eats with Me: A Gaza Diary" 📚
The gift that keeps on giving 🎁
Immerse yourself in the best writing from around the world this holiday season by becoming a Print Plus subscriber with @newlinesmag.bsky.social: newlinesmag.com/become-a-mem...
Immerse yourself in the best writing from around the world this holiday season by becoming a Print Plus subscriber with @newlinesmag.bsky.social: newlinesmag.com/become-a-mem...
December 23, 2024 at 1:18 PM
The gift that keeps on giving 🎁
Immerse yourself in the best writing from around the world this holiday season by becoming a Print Plus subscriber with @newlinesmag.bsky.social: newlinesmag.com/become-a-mem...
Immerse yourself in the best writing from around the world this holiday season by becoming a Print Plus subscriber with @newlinesmag.bsky.social: newlinesmag.com/become-a-mem...
Ammar al-Beik, untitled (2017)
[Seen at Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, 2020]
[Seen at Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, 2020]
December 7, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Ammar al-Beik, untitled (2017)
[Seen at Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, 2020]
[Seen at Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, 2020]
And Obama was once a student of Khalidi, and then fellow instructor at U of Chicago with the author (see photo). But guess what—that didn’t stop Obama from propping Israel’s terror campaigns against Palestinians
November 30, 2024 at 9:01 PM
And Obama was once a student of Khalidi, and then fellow instructor at U of Chicago with the author (see photo). But guess what—that didn’t stop Obama from propping Israel’s terror campaigns against Palestinians
Egypt is one of the world’s top producers of strawberries and the season for growing just started. I spent the day in Toukh, Qalyubia, which hosts some of the best-known fields. After sampling some, I quickly understood why they’re so renowned. 🍓🍓🍓
November 30, 2024 at 3:17 PM
Egypt is one of the world’s top producers of strawberries and the season for growing just started. I spent the day in Toukh, Qalyubia, which hosts some of the best-known fields. After sampling some, I quickly understood why they’re so renowned. 🍓🍓🍓
Sunset over Alexandria
November 27, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Sunset over Alexandria
by Muna Dawn Hijazi
November 24, 2024 at 5:51 PM
by Muna Dawn Hijazi
POV: you’re trying to open an alt news website under Egypt’s draconian censorship laws
November 22, 2024 at 9:11 AM
POV: you’re trying to open an alt news website under Egypt’s draconian censorship laws
WFH but then this is home
November 19, 2024 at 10:38 AM
WFH but then this is home
One of the best features of this app is that when you block someone, you really block them 👋🏼❌🙅🏻♀️
November 19, 2024 at 6:59 AM
One of the best features of this app is that when you block someone, you really block them 👋🏼❌🙅🏻♀️
Before there was Google, we had:
October 10, 2023 at 10:20 PM
Before there was Google, we had: