Amy Fallas is a Salvadoran-Costa Rican writer, editor, and historian. She is a former editor of the Yale Journal for International Affairs and a current assistant editor at the Arab Studies Journal. Her published work has appeared in The Washington Post, Jadaliyya, the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, Mada Masr, HAZINE, the Revealer, Sojourners, Contingent Magazine, and more.

She received her MA in History from Yale University and is currently a PhD Candidate in History at UC Santa Barbara. Her research examines religious difference, communal institutions, sectarianism, and historical memory in modern Egypt as well as transnationally between El Salvador and Palestine during the 20th Century. Her creative nonfiction explores these questions through personal and investigative essays on race, religion, and politics in and between Egypt, El Salvador, and the United States.

She was based in Cairo and Beirut from 2021-24 through research fellowships with the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE), the American Society for Church History (ASCH), and the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University to conduct research for her dissertation “Their Own Poor: Charitable Societies, Communal Identities, and the Making of Sectarianism in Modern Egypt 1879-1939.” She is currently a Dissertation Fellow at the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center for 2023-24 and is a dual research affiliate at the Orient Institut in Beirut and the American University in Beirut.