Alexander Mayyasi

About

To follow my work, you can subscribe to my free, weekly-ish newsletter at I am a business and economics journalist with wide-ranging interests, especially history and food & drink. Currently I'm writing a book called Planet Money based on the NPR podcast. I have ~some~ availability for other projects, so get in touch if you'd like to work together! Previously I was the founding editor of Gastro Obscura, the food publication from Atlas Obscura. Before that, I was a writer and editor at the media startup Priceonomics. I lived in Cairo from 2011 to 2012, and in April 2016, I published a book with Egyptian democracy activist Ahmed Salah titled You Are Under Arrest For Masterminding the Egyptian Revolution (a Memoir). I am represented by Howard Yoon of William Morris Endeavor, and I am an artist-in-residence at the Eldorado Springs Art Center.

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