Basma Radwan is a PhD candidate in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. Her dissertation, The Politics of Eating Well: Egypt, France, and the Colonization of Alimentary Knowledge, studies encounters between Egypt and France in the long nineteenth century to trace how debates over eating and taste helped define the contours of modern knowledge. More broadly, she is interested in how competing alimentary traditions order relations between bodies, land, and regimes of value and what such arrangements might teach us about living and eating well today. Her work sits at the intersection of food studies, histories of knowledge, and postcolonial thought.