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dodai @dodai.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

got an unexpected email: someone looking for a 2012 Jezebel post I wrote. It was a funny catalog dissection titled "Get To Know Your Carhartt Boyfriend." Thx to various issues including a private equity sale, millions of posts/images are missing from the Gawker/Jezebel archives. Gone! Lost forever.

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dodai @dodai.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

manhattan has one wild turkey and she has an entourage. i spent the afternoon with Astoria and her godmothers… www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/n...

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Manhattan’s Only Wild Turkey Has Her Own Entourage

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dodai @dodai.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

📖📖📖 some personal news: I'm writing a book!

NYT Metro staff writer and former founding editor of Jezebel Dodai Stewart's PARIS HERE I AM, opening with the author's discovery of her Great Uncle Ollie's 1950s tour guide for Black Americans visiting Paris, right before she covered the Paris Olympics for the New York Times; pitched as a JULIE AND JULIA-style book retracing his years as the first Black WWII war correspondent and as an expat in Paris who befriended Josephine Baker, and weaving in her own story as a writer covering New York, to Emi Ikkanda at Tiny Reparations Books, at auction, by Jen Marshall at Aevitas Creative Management (world).

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dodai @dodai.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

spent some time getting to know my neighbors... www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/n...

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An Evening With the Central Park Coyotes

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 07/05/2025

learning to write... is learning to think structurally, intentionally, deliberately it organizes how one arrives at conclusions

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dodai @dodai.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

all these technological advances and i still can't take a picture of the moon w my phone

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Tracey Tully @traceytully.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Mr. Khalil had an idea and a piece of wood — part of a stump — that he had found close to a park a few blocks away from his small storefront studio in Bayonne, N.J. Over the next six months, he plotted and created his sculpture. By @dodai.bsky.social

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He’s a Security Guard at the Met. Now His Work Is Showing There.

How the dream of a lifetime became reality for a sculptor from Egypt.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

On this day of horror and impending chaos, a wonderful NYT story by Dodai Stewart of an immigrant from Egypt, now U.S. citizen, who found his dream job as a security guard at the Met Museum, and now has his sculpture featured in one of the its major exhibitions. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/n...

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He’s a Security Guard at the Met. Now His Work Is Showing There. (Gift Article)

How the dream of a lifetime became reality for a sculptor from Egypt.

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dodai @dodai.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

In 2023, Armia Khalil, a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, saw a visitor wandering through a gallery, clearly looking for something specific. The encounter was brief — five minutes, maybe less — but it changed Khalil’s life… nyti.ms/3Wcevnr

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A Security Guard, a Chance Encounter and a Sculpture Called ‘Hope’ (Gift Article)

How the dream of a lifetime became reality for a sculptor from Egypt.

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Jennie Coughlin @jenniecoughlin.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I'd heard @dodai.bsky.social was working on this story, then found myself in the exhibit one day a few weeks ago while trying to get someplace else in the Met, so stopped to find the sculpture and was quite taken with it. I'm looking forward to reading the full story over my morning coffee.

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A Security Guard, a Lucky Break and a Sculpture Called ‘Hope’ (Gift Article)

How a chance encounter led to the dream of a lifetime for a sculptor from Egypt.

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

as a user, i am having an experience

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