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

I am accepting new reporting assignments, contributing writer roles, and academic editing and indexing projects. If you would like to work together, please send me an e-mail.

Currently, I am a contributing writer at Yes! Magazine and for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. My award-winning writing has also appeared in The New Republic, Teen Vogue, High Country News, Atmos Magazine, Life & Thyme, and other publications. I specialize in covering food, disability, climate justice issues, and the Middle East. 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 the social and spatial order of 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.”