Mary Turfah is a writer and surgical resident trained in anthropology at Yale and Middle Eastern South Asian and African Studies at Columbia, where her research focused on trauma memory and the margins of the Nakba.

She has written about medical neutrality and settler psychosis for The Baffler, the (mis)uses of Edward Said’s famous ‘permission to narrate’ for Protean, the destruction of medical infrastructure in Gaza for The Nation, and other things for other places. She is working on an essay collection about medicine and empire.