Marianne Dhenin is an award-winning journalist, historian, and academic editor.

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Currently, I am a contributing writer at Truthout and the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s SavingsPlaces.org. I am also an assistant editor at the Urban History Association’s blog, The Metropole. From 2023 until the magazine sunset in June 2025, I was a contributing writer at Yes! Magazine.

My award-winning reporting has also appeared in The New Republic, Teen Vogue, High Country News, Atmos Magazine, Life & Thyme, and other publications. I cover community organizing, climate change, disability justice, and more. Click here to view my portfolio.

As an academic, I wrote my Ph.D. at the University of Basel on how disease and public health shaped late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Egyptian cities. I hold a master’s degree in Human Rights Law and Justice and a diploma in Middle East Studies from the American University in Cairo. From 2020 to 2024, I was a member of the academic staff at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz, Germany, as part of the Leibniz Collaborative Excellence project “The Historicity of Democracy in the Muslim and Arab Worlds.”