Samar Al-Bulushi is a political anthropologist based at the University of California, Irvine, and a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute. She is a contributing editor at Africa is a Country and has published in a variety of public outlets on topics ranging from the International Criminal Court to the militarization of U.S. policy in Africa. Her writing and interviews have appeared in The Intercept, Africa is a Country, Al-Jazeera, Democracy Now, Pambazuka, Review of African Political Economy, and Warscapes.