Fiction
“For Want of Milk,” Flash Fiction Magazine (forthcoming).
“The Struggle Before,” Ivo Review, Vol 2: Lost, December 2025.
“Seeking Citrus,” Muleskinner Journal, Vol 15: Tension, October 2025.
“Fly Away,” Boudin by McNeese Review, Finding Home: Immigration and Displacement; May 2025.
“Mother. Land.” (flash) #Genocidal Anthology, Culture Cult Press, March 2025.
“Men at Work,” Flash Fiction Magazine, April 20, 2024.
“Trusting Sayf,” Newfound, March 2017.
Poetry
“Obituary of a Clan,” #Genocidal anthology, Culture Cult Press, March 2025.
“Web of Resistance,” #Genocidal anthology, Culture Cult Press, March 2025; first appeared as the Poetry Competition Winner, Shooter Literary Magazine, 2024.
“a mediocre white man” (prose poem), Tiferet Journal‘s Community blog, April 2019.
“What To Do In a Terror Alert,” The Poeming Pigeon: In the News edition, September 2018; first appeared in Forage Poetry Journal (now defunct), vol. 1, no. 4, Fall 2016.
“Feast Days / أيام الأعياد” (self-translated poem), Lunch Ticket, Issue 12, Winter 2017.
Creative Nonfiction
“Fighting Mad, Crying in the Dark” (flash), Covid Diary anthology, Two Shrews Press (forthcoming).
“Becoming Bedouin: Daughter, Teacher, Sister,” Being Home anthology, Madville Publishing, October 2021; first appeared in Silk Road Review: a literary crossroads, University of the Pacific, no. 18, Fall 2017.
“Sid Ismahan’s Brothers and Daughters,” Flip Sides anthology, Wising Up Press, Spring 2021; first appeared in CONSEQUENCE magazine, Volume 12, Spring 2020.
“Cold Comfort,” Doubleback Review, Volume 2, October 2020; first appeared online in the Varnish – A Journal of Arts and Letters (now-defunct), Issue 2, January 2018.
“Halfway ‘Cross the World: Pandemic Missives from my Jordanian Family,” winner, Sacred Essays contest, Center for Interfaith Relations, June 2020.
“The Peace of Iraq’s Mothers,” Re-Creating Our Common Chord anthology, Wising Up Press, September 2019; DoveTales, An International Journal of The Arts, May 2017; first appeared in New Madrid, Journal of Contemporary Literature vol. 7, no. 1: Winter 2017.
“That Other Hijab Story,” Culture and Ideas Gold Winner, Thirteenth Annual Solas Awards, April 2019; first appeared in From Sac, Volume 4, 2016.
“Taxi, Train and Felucca: Trust on the Nile,” Shooter Literary Magazine, Issue 9: Rivalry, Feb 2019.
“Bringing Umm Saleh Home,” Michigan Quarterly Review, University of Michigan: Fall 2018.
“Friends With Goats,” L’Éphémère Review, Issue 12, September/October 2018; first appeared online in the Amsterdam Quarterly, Issue 19, June 2017, and in print in the Amsterdam Quarterly 2017 Yearbook in December 2017.
“Panic Attacks,” pacificREVIEW, San Diego State University: 2018.
“The Worst Tenth Grader,” The Font – A Literary Journal for Language Teachers, 2018, Volume 2; an abridged version was recorded at the 6th annual Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of New York story slam.
“Khawaaga: Eyes Always Watching,” Duende, Spring 2018: States of Mind.
“Say Praise God: Learning to be a gracious guest in someone else’s language,” BLYNKT (now defunct), vol. 2, 2017.
“Neither of Us Quite Bedouin,” The Matador Review (now defunct), Summer 2017.
“Snapshots of the Globalized Generation,” Stoneboat vol. 7.2, April 2017.
“What Never Happened With Ahmed,“ Pilcrow and Dagger (now defunct), vol 3, no. 1, January 2017.
“Terrorist or Tragedy? My Struggle with the Tale of Sajida al-Rishawi,” Gulf Stream Literary Magazine, Online Issue #16, Winter 2016.
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