Selected Essays and Reporting

For Palestinian Oudist Huda Asfour, performance brings catharsis — and frustration / The Guardian

An interview with Najwan Darwish about writing in times of war / The Guardian

A “hidden and deliciously obvious” history of Levantine cuisine / The Nation (print and online)

After divorce, finding comfort in cohousing / Catapult Magazine

My great-grandmother’s struggle with mental illness — and the therapy that changed her life / Vox

An art exhibit that wants to change the way you think about the Syrian refugee crisis / Vox

Sisi won Egypt’s election. That doesn’t mean he’s safe / Vox

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s mysterious disappearance, explained / Vox

How Ahed Tamimi became an international icon / Vox

The controversial US Jerusalem embassy opening, explained / Vox

The US Jerusalem embassy opening and Gaza border protests, in photos / Vox

Meet the Bay Area residents fighting discrimination on public transit / The Atlantic’s CityLab

Breaking through the din / Guernica Magazine

Cairo’s day of rage / Bloomberg Businessweek

Shocked, scared, and still divided / Bloomberg Businessweek

Waiting for Egypt’s next revolution / Los Angeles Review of Books

So many ways of knowing / Los Angeles Review of Books

In Pro-Sisi Mansoura, youth avoid the polls / Mada Masr

Bahrain and the Kissinger Cables / Jadaliyya

The Bahrain uprising, in pictures / Jadaliyya

An interview with Mona Prince, author of Ismi Thoura / ArabLit

Riverbank, California / Orion Magazine

The Iraq war is not done / East Bay Express

Fiction

Not Our Fight / Fourteen Hills (Spring 2024 issue)

This Is Fine / The Carolina Quarterly (Spring 2023 issue)

Two Doormen / Cleaver Magazine

Podcasts

Vox’s Worldly podcast — The Syrian crisis (2018)

Vox’s Today, Explained podcast — Journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s mysterious disappearance (2018)