Below you’ll find some recent work and some oldies but goodies.

Finding Courage During Challenging Times, PRsay, July 2025

All I Still Want for Christmas Is a Ceasefire, Arab America, December 2024

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
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

“Basking Underneath the Lebanese Sky” in the anthology Feminisms in Motion: Voices of Justice, Liberation, and Transformation, Eds. Jessica Hoffmann and Daria Yudacufski, AK Press, 2018.
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
Shine Brightly: On Literary Citizenship and Class, Women Who Submit, May 2016

After Your Great-Grandmother Tita, Exposition Review, 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
Homeland Hacker Challenges Media Portrayals of Muslims, Al Jazeera, November 2015
Jeannie’s American Dream: The Assimilation of an American Icon, Bitch (print edition), Winter 2015 (Click for a PDF)

The Moment I Became My Mother, Role Reboot, March 2014
“No Longer Just American” in the anthology Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity, Ed. Matt Bernstein Sycamore, Seal Press, 2006. For a PDF of the essay, click here.












