Amy Fallas is a Salvadoran-Costa Rican writer, editor, and historian. She is a former editor of the Yale Journal for International Affairs and currently Associate Editor at the Arab Studies Journal. Her academic scholarship is published in peer reviewed journals such as History Compass, Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, and the Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Her public-facing 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 working across the fields of modern Middle East and late Ottoman History, Religious Studies, Archival Studies, and the Latin East (Middle East-Latin American studies). Her research examines religious difference, communal institutions, charitable networks, sectarianism, and historical memory in modern Egypt as well as the transnational connections 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 has lived in the Middle East since 2021 through the support of 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 research affiliate at the Orient Institut in Beirut for 2024-25 and Lecturer at Santa Barbara City College for Spring 2025.

She is based in Beirut, Lebanon.