. Literary Non-Fiction & Essay .

Your Killer’s Voice - The Baffler, April 11, 2024

Gaza’s Past is Calling - Lux Magazine, Winter Issue 2024

Slow Return - Acacia Magazine, Winter Issue 2024

It Was All Songs: A Letter From Gaza (Bilingual/Translation) - Mizna, February 12, 2024

Letters From the Apocalypse - The Nation, January 29, 2024

The Work of the Witness - Jewish Currents, Janury 12, 2024

Flooding the Heart of Empire (contributor) - The Baffler, November 8, 2023

Doomsday Diaries - The Baffler, October 18, 2023

Peel (poetry) - The Asian American Writer’s Workshop, October 19, 2023

Forest Against the Trees - The Baffler, September 12, 2023

I Make Myself A Channel - Transpacific Literary Project at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop - April 26, 2023

The Time Is Now: Speculative Futures, Reclaimed Histories - CUE Art Foundation, April 5, 2023

The Politics of Retching - Lux Magazine, Winter Issue 2023

Anointing The Dead - The Baffler, May 23, 2022

Terroirs - Asian American Writers’ Workshop, June 6, 2022

The Age of Innocence: An Arab American Upbringing in the Shadow of 9/11 -The Baffler, September 9, 2021

Tea // Time - Lux Magazine, August 2021

Can Palestinian Lives Matter? - The Intercept, May 2021

The Saudi Government’s Global Campaign To Silence Its Critics - The New Yorker, January 15, 2019

Saudi Women Take the Wheel, While Fear Of Backlash Remains - The Atlantic, June 23, 2018

[Letter from Saudi Arabia]: Body Politic - Harper’s Magazine, January 2018

The Body and the Blood - The Rumpus, December 13, 2016

. Journalism .


Cooking Through Gaza’s Food Crisis - Bon Appétit, April 23, 2024

No Taliban, No Empire - Lux Magazine, June 23, 2022

All Quiet On the Eastern Front - The Baffler, May 6, 2021

How UPenn is Failing its AAPI Students - The Daily Pennsylvanian, March 2021

Nothing To Lose: Lebanon’s Women-Led Civil Society Responds To Beirut Blast - The Intercept, October 17 2020

Black Hole Kingdom: Organizing in the Cracks of the Saudi State - The Baffler, November 2020

For Persian Gulf Migrant Workers, the Pandemic Has Amplified Systemic Discrimination - The Nation, October 30, 2020

New Arab Pro-Democracy Group Founded by Jamal Khashoggi Faces an Uphill Battle in D.C. - The Intercept, September 30, 2020

The Saudi Crown Prince’s Digital Iron Fist - The New York Times, September 6, 2019

Fleeing Gender Apartheid - Ms. Magazine, August 2, 2019

U.N. Concludes That Saudi Arabia Needs to Be Held Accountable for Khashoggi. Here’s Why That Won’t Happen - The Intercept, June 20, 2019

Trump’s Veto on Yemen War Is a Sign That the Strongmen in the U.S. and Saudi Arabia Are Winning - The Intercept, April 18 2019

Mohammed bin Salman Is Running Saudi Arabia Like a Man Who Got Away With Murder - The Intercept, February 1, 2019

18-Year-Old Rahaf Alqanun Is The Latest Saudi Women To Attempt An International Escape - The Washington Post, January 9, 2019

Saudi Arabia’s Brutal Treatment of Women Activists Should Have Warned Us Long Before Khashoggi - The Washington Post, December 10, 2018

Yemen’s Human-Rights Defenders Are Fighting Increasingly Desperate Odds - The Nation, November 18, 2018

Don’t Lose Sight of the Real Stakes: Jamal Khashoggi’s Murder Is About Repression of Free Speech in the Middle East - The Intercept, October 25, 2018

The 2018 Midterm Cycle Could Be The Most Islamophobic U.S. Election Ever - The Intercept, October 22, 2018

Jamal Khashoggi Wasn't The First - The Intercept, October 12, 2018

Crackdown Kingdom: The Saudi Women Who Fought For the Right To Drive Are Disappearing - The Intercept, October 6, 2018

How Donald Trump Is Dismantling The Entire Refugee Resettlement System - The Intercept, August 15, 2018

Jordan's Prime Minister Ousted, Protests Continue - The Intercept, June 5, 2018

As Medical Aid Dwindles, Some Syrian Refugees May Be "Too Expensive" To Keep Alive - The Intercept, May 10, 2018

The Epidemic of ISIS-planted Mines - The Intercept, May 1, 2018

Bigger Than A Travel Ban: Trump’s Anti-Muslim Agenda Proceeds -The Intercept, April 27, 2018

Left Behind: Iraqis Who Aided US Troops Abandoned To Isis Threats - The Intercept, April 15, 2018

New Yorkers Vow To Block Census Citizenship Question - The Village Voice, March 28, 2018

Three Years Into Yemen War, A Collective of Women Street Artists Cope With the Destruction - The Intercept, March 26, 2018

Palestine’s First Intifada Is Still a Model for Grassroots Resistance - The Nation, December 8, 2017

Trump's Travel Ban in Full Force as Litigation Goes On - The Intercept, December 5, 2017

Anthologized in “What Future?” The Year's Best Ideas to Reclaim, Reanimate, & Reinvent Our Future - November 7, 2017

The Courageous Woman Who Is Standing Up To All Sides of the Yemen Conflict - The Nation, November 10, 2017

US Refugee Acceptance To Hit Record Low - The Intercept, October 23, 2017

How Long Can Supreme Court Hold Muslim Ban At Bay? - The Intercept, October 21, 2017

Syrian Widows In Jordan Take Charge of Their New Lives - The Intercept, September 24, 2017

What Would Amazon’s Arrival In Sunset Park Mean For Locals — And City Taxpayers? - The Village Voice, September 19, 2017

Meet the Socialist Who Hopes to Become New York’s First Arab-American Elected Official - The Nation, September 8, 2017

GOP Healthcare Repeal Would Be A Disaster For Women’s Health - The Village Voice, July 27, 2017

Meet the Syrian Activists Fighting ISIS—With Cameras - The Nation, July 12, 2017

Sunset Park’s Union Power - The Village Voice, March 22, 2017

Muslim Activists Organize, Brace for Trump’s Proposed Muslim Registry - Waging Nonviolence, December 14, 2016

Saudi Women Push for End to Guardianship System - Waging Nonviolence - September 29, 2016

Syrian Women Mark Another Eid in Exile - Muftah, July 8, 2016

Local Historians Fight To Commemorate Manhattan’s “Little Syria” - The Gothamist, August 5, 2016

What Will Self-Driving Cars Mean for Saudi Women? - Slate, June 23, 2016

NYC Prison Union Boss Faces $60,000 Scandal - The Gothamist, June 9, 2016

. Reviews .

New Book Highlights Arab Women Reporting From the Arab World - The Nation, September 3, 2019

A Syrian Mother’s Letter to Her Daughter - The Intercept, July 27, 2019

Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman Defies The Patriarchy - Muftah, July 26 2019

On the Courage and Tenacity of Nobel Peace Prize Winner Nadia Murad- The Nation, October 18, 2018

Ai Weiwei’s Human Flow Eloquently Calls the West to Account for Refugee Crisis - The Nation, October 24, 2017

Sconey Island: A Brooklyn Bakery Struggles With Its Role As In Gentrification - The Village Voice November 16, 2017

Michael Robbins Reflects on Poetry, Pop Music, and Politics - The Village Voice, July 11, 2017

A Neighborhood Guide To Sunset Park - The Village Voice, March 22, 2017

To have humour you have to have hope': Palestinian funny man Sayed Kashua - The Middle East Eye, March 25, 2016

Artist Manal al-Dowayan on art, class and a budding feminist consciousness in Saudi Arabia - The Middle East Eye, March 2, 2016