

The Bereavers at the Crying Competition




X Cuntry, in Nasty Women, Picador

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot & the Problem of Empire, LARB’s Avidly, March 2016
Biblioclast, The Sun, March 2016

A Field Trip, Kweli Journal 2015

Why I Can’t Stand White Belly-dancers / I Still Can’t Stand White Belly-dancers, Salon, March 2014

How Can I Be of Use to You?, Booth, January 2014

Two Sentence Story, Salon, December 2013

Boaters, The Rumpus, April 2013

A Sailor, PEN Flash Series, April 2013
Building Girls, in MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine, Spring 2013
Imagining Myself in Palestine, Guernica, May 2012

The Gift, published as “Eighteen and Pregnant,” New York Times Magazine, April 15 2012
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 Story of My Building, Hunger Mountain, Fall 2007 and in Beirut 39: New Writing from the Arab World
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