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 settler psychosis and doctors with neither borders nor politics for The Baffler, militarized“surgical precision” and broken glass for the LA Review of Books, moments of recognition and alienation and the limits of witness for Bookforum, and other things for other places. She is working on a book about medicine and empire.