Mardean Isaac’s writing has appeared in the Awl, The Blizzard, the Financial Times, Lapham’s Quarterly, Tablet magazine, the Times Literary Supplement and elsewhere. He is essays editor at BRICK magazine.
A tribute to MF DOOM in BRICK magazine [January 2020]
“My Country I Haven’t Forgotten”, an essay in Lapham’s Quarterly [December 2020]
A review of “My War Criminal” by Jessica Stern in Tablet magazine [December 2020]
“Loski’s Expanding Horizons”, a feature in BRICK magazine (Issue 10) [November 2020]
“Will Self”, an essay in Tablet magazine [September 2020]
“Keep Your Ears Split For Me” (Part Two), an essay in BRICK magazine (Issue 09) [July 2020]
A conversation with Andrea Dennis and Erik Nielson, authors of “Rap on Trial”, in BRICK magazine (Issue 09) [July 2020]
A review of “Incitement: Anwar al-Awlaki’s Western Jihad” by Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens in the Times Literary Supplement [June 2020]
A review of “The Wolf of Baghdad”, a graphic novel by Carol Isaacs in Tablet magazine [May 2020]
A review of “The Ruins of Ani” by Krikor Balakian in the Times Literary Supplement [January 2020]
“An Iraq for All: Improving the Status of Assyrians in the Iraqi Constitution”, a report to which he contributed [January 2020]
“Keep Your Ears Split For Me” (Part One), an essay in BRICK magazine (Issue 08) [November 2019]
“Beyond Boundaries”, a conversation with Mohamed Sqalli of NAAR in BRICK magazine (Issue 08) [November 2019]
Blanco of Harlem Spartans, a feature in BRICK magazine (Issue 08) [November 2019]
A review of “The Thirty Year Genocide” by Benny Morris and Dror Ze’evi and “Bloodied, but Unbowed” by Alice Nazarian in the Times Literary Supplement [September 2019] (Response letter by Turkish Ambassador to the UK here; and by Edward Luttwak here)
“Obama’s Genocides”, an essay in Tablet magazine [August 2019]
“Master of the Double Exile”, an essay in Tablet magazine [May 2019]
Dave, a cover feature in BRICK magazine (Issue 07) [April 2019]
“Splash and Brag: Mapping Drill’s Ecosystem of Violence”, an essay in BRICK magazine (Issue 07) [April 2019]
“My Stories”, an essay in The Blizzard magazine [March 2019]
“Kurdistan and Israel”, an essay in Tablet magazine [November 2018]
“Drill music: from Chicago to Croydon and back”, an article in the Financial Times [October 2018]
“Storytelling: In Conversation with Rapman”, a feature in BRICK magazine (Issue 06) [October 2018]
“De La Soul is Dead: A Post-Mortem”, an essay in BRICK magazine (Issue 06) [October 2018]
“Pharmaceutical Cocktails”, a menu on Medium [July 2018]
“Romancing Rojava”, an article co-written with Max J. Joseph in Syria Comment [July 2018]
“Is the Lost Language of Iraqi Jews Really Lost?”, an article in Tablet magazine [June 2018]
“Nothing Turns Away”, a short essay in The Blizzard magazine [June 2018]
“Experience: U-God in Conversation”, a feature in BRICK magazine (Issue 05) [May 2018]
“Colonial Legacy”, a historical essay in The Blizzard magazine [March 2018]
“Clinging on in the wake of a genocide”, a review of Augin Kurt Haninke’s “The Heirs of Patriarch Shaker” in the Catholic Herald [February 2018]
“Was Turkey’s Genocide of the Assyrians an Islamist Crime?”, a review of Joseph Yacoub’s “Year of the Sword: The Assyrian Christian Genocide” in Tablet magazine [January 2018]
A review of Cathy Otten’s “With Ash on Their Faces” in the Times Literary Supplement [January 2018]
“Erasing Assyrians”, a paper to which he contributed [September 2017]
“The Man in the Internet”, satire in the Awl [April 2017]
“No Country For Its People”, an essay in the Awl [July 2016]
“Under Fire From All Sides: Syria’s Assyrians”, an article in Syria Deeply [June 2016]
“The Assyrians of Syria: History and Prospects”, an article in Syria Comment [December 2015]
“Anonymous Letter from an Organ Trafficker”, a short story in Eclectica magazine [October/November 2014]
“The Assyrian Identity, the Assyrian “Nation”, and their Representation in Syriac Studies”, an academic essay in the Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies [2013]
“The desperate plight of Iraq’s Assyrians and other minorities”, an op-ed in the Guardian [December 2011]