
Rethinking Arab American Heritage Month, Yes! Magazine, April 2024

All I Want for Christmas Is a Ceasefire, Arab America, Yes! Magazine and Truthdig, December 2023
This Year, Consider Skipping the Holiday Cheer, PRsay, December 2023

Being Thoughtful During Ramadan, PRsay, March 2023

New Ethnic Studies Office at Cal Poly Pomona to Support Faculty, Promote Belonging, PolyCentric, December 2022

10 Tips for Higher Ed MarCom Campaigns, Strategies & Tactics, September 2022

Scholarship Fest Launches, Aims to Award Millions, PolyCentric, December 2021
Scholarship Fest Increases Applications, Money Awarded, PolyCentric, May 2021

Inclusive Campus Survey Launches: Share Your View, We’ll Follow Through, PolyCentric, February 2021
Communicating Thoughtfully About Suicide, Strategies & Tactics, July 2020
Which Box Should Arab Americans Choose on the 2020 Census?, Arab America, May 2020
In the World to Change it, Los Angeles Review of Books, April 2020
“Ramy” Will Get You Laughing—and Thinking, Ms. Magazine, April 2019
Social Strategy: Telling Stories That Matter for an Increasingly Influential Generation, Strategies & Tactics, April 2019
Indicting the System, Los Angeles Review of Books, February 2018

My Brother Took His Own Life. Please Don’t Ask If He Left a Note, Bright Magazine, November 2017
Chess Master: “Queen of Katwe” Is Disney’s Greatest Feat, Bitch, September 2017

Honoring Petey’s Life: My Beloved Brother’s Eulogy and Obituary, August 2017
Imperialist Feminism 101: “Megan Leavey” Uses War to Help White Women Figure Themselves Out, Bitch, June 2017
Slavery Never Ended: Prison as Punishment in “13th”, Bitch, May 2017
What’s Not Being Said About “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Ms., May 2017
Take Back the Night: The Most Important Night of the Year, University Times, April 2017

When Fashion Makes a Statement, Ms., April 2017
Does the “Collateral Beauty” of Fatherhood Come at the Expense of Mothers?, Bitch, December 2016
Oscar Contender “Jackie” Is Good, But Not Good Enough, Bitch, December 2016
Loving v. White Anxiety: “Loving” Tells the Story of the Couple Who Challenged Racist Marriage Laws, Bitch, November 2016
Life-Affirming Narratives: Author Randa Jarrar Talks Arab American Identity and Survival, Bitch, September 2016
Shine Brightly: On Literary Citizenship and Class, Women Who Submit, May 2016
As Hollywood Turns Its Eyes to Cuba, Will the Island Be More Than Just a Prop?, Bitch, May 2016
The Orientalist Narrative and Erasure in “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot,” Bitch, March 2016

After Your Great-Grandmother Tita, Exposition Review, March 2016
New Documentary “Equal Means Equal” Exposes Why We Need an Equal Rights Amendment, Bitch, March 2016
Questions I Would Have Preferred to Have Been Asked in My Thirties in Lieu of “Why Don’t You Want Kids?”, McSweeney’s, March 2016

Less Is More: On Decluttering Our Lives & Writing, Women Who Submit, January 2016

Stop Blaming the Alcoholic: What I’ve Learned from Being My Brother’s Health Advocate in a System Filled with More Stigma Than Compassion, Medium: The Development Set, December 2015
New Film “Mustang” Explores Young Women’s Vitality—And Patriarchy’s Brutality, Bitch, December 2015
Homeland Hacker Challenges Media Portrayals of Muslims, Al Jazeera, November 2015
The High Stakes for “Quantico” and its South Asian Star, Bitch, October 2015
From Producer Salma Hayek, “The Prophet” Focuses on the Political Power of Poetry, Bitch, August 2015

16 Writers Take on the Stigma of Not Having Kids, Bitch, March 2015
Katy Perry’s Extremely Straight Performance of “I Kissed a Girl” at the Super Bowl, Bitch, January 2015
Jeannie’s American Dream: The Assimilation of an American Icon, Bitch (print edition), Winter 2015

Passing as White, Flaming as Arab: Why Mixed-Heritage Arab American Women Writers Choose Not to “Pass” as White and Instead to “Flame” as Arab, Mizna (print), Volume 15, Issue 2, 2015

Hello Kitty Is Not A Cat, But A Girl…Without a Voice, Role Reboot, August 2014
The First TV Drama About an Arab American Family Debuts—And it’s Got Some Problems, Bitch, June 2014

Alice in TV Land, Bitch (print edition), Summer 2014
Arab American Romantic Comedty “Detroit Unleaded Will Make You Shout, “Hell, Yeah!”, Bitch, May 2014
How Is This Dutch Company Using a Harem to Sell Chocolate Milk?, Eutopia, April 2014
Disney’s Missteps on “Alice in Arabia” Show the Need for Complex Muslim Characters on TV, Bitch, March 2014
































