Essays & Stories
- Forthcoming: Building Girls, in MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine
- The Gift, published as “Eighteen and Pregnant,” New York Times Magazine, April 15 2012
- The Forsaken, Salon.com, August 2011
- From Alienation to Belonging: Guest-Editor, Arab-American Fiction Issue, Guernica, June 2011
- ReWriting the Story, UTNE Reader, March 2011
- Loosely Based, UTNE Reader, July 2010
- Him, Me, Muhammad Ali, Guernica Magazine, June 2010
- Deportation Order, The Progressive, March 2010
- The Missing Piece Son, New York Times Magazine, December 2009
- Accidental Transients, Five Chapters, December 2009
- The Life, Loves, and Adventures of Zelwa the Halfie, The Oxford American, Feb 2009
- Grace, Skive Magazine, Winter 2008
- The Story of My Building, Hunger Mountain, Fall 2007 and in Beirut 39: New Writing from the Arab World
- Barefoot Bridge, Qissat: Stories by Palestinian Women, Telegram Books, 2007
- You Are A 14-Year-Old Arab Chick Who Just Moved To Texas, (a chapter from A Map of Home) Eyeshot
- The Lunatics’ Eclipse, Ploughshares, Fall 2004
- A Frame For the Sky, Dinarzad’s Children, UArk Press
- Encounters with Celebrities, Duck and Herring
- Hungry Holly, Consumed: An Anthology
- Lost In Freakin’ Yonkers, Dinarzad’s Children, UArk Press
