Writings

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

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Finding Courage During Challenging Times, PRsay, July 2025

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

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

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All I Want for Christmas Is a Ceasefire, Arab America, Yes! Magazine and Truthdig, December 2023

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This Year, Consider Skipping the Holiday Cheer, PRsay, December 2023

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Being Thoughtful During Ramadan, PRsay, March 2023

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Communicating Thoughtfully About Suicide, Strategies & Tactics, July 2020

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Which Box Should Arab Americans Choose on the 2020 Census?, Arab America, May 2020

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In the World to Change it, Los Angeles Review of Books, April 2020

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“Ramy” Will Get You Laughing—and Thinking, Ms. Magazine, April 2019

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Social Strategy: Telling Stories That Matter for an Increasingly Influential Generation, Strategies & Tactics, April 2019

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“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.

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Indicting the System, Los Angeles Review of Books, February 2018

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My Brother Took His Own Life. Please Don’t Ask If He Left a Note, Bright Magazine, November 2017

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Shine Brightly: On Literary Citizenship and Class, Women Who Submit, May 2016

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After Your Great-Grandmother Tita, Exposition Review, March 2016

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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

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

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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

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Homeland Hacker Challenges Media Portrayals of Muslims, Al Jazeera, November 2015

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Jeannie’s American Dream: The Assimilation of an American Icon, Bitch (print edition), Winter 2015 (Click for a PDF)

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The Moment I Became My Mother, Role Reboot, March 2014

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“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.

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“Model vs. Feminist: Seeing Beyond the Binaries” in the anthology We Don’t Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists, Ed. Melody Berger, Seal Press, 2006.