Essays and Reviews
“Ehna rajiun”—a review of Hannah Assadi’s Paradiso 17 — The Markaz Review
In Nasser Rabah’s Poetry, تقول القصيدة كلمتها — The Markaz Review
Palestinian Equals Arab Equals Human: on Najwan Darwish — The Markaz Review
A glimpse of Gaza in Mosab Abu Toha’s Forest of Noise — The New Arab
Birth in a Poem: Maram Al-Masri’s The Abduction— The Markaz Review
Fady Joudah’s […] Dares Us to Listen to Palestinian Words—and Silences — The Markaz Review (reprinted in Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader and excerpted in Literary Hub)
I was a working mom with a NICU baby — USA Today
What We Write About When We (Arabs) Write About Love — The Markaz Review
Inspired by my illiterate grandmother: Writing toward a bilingual, bicultural literature and identity — Women Writers, Women[’s] Books
On Teetotaling in America — JMWW
Conflict and Freedom in Palestine, a Trip Down Memory Lane — The Markaz Review
I don’t drink. Don’t hold that against me this holiday season. — USA Today
After Marriage, Single Arab American Woman Looks for Love — The Markaz Review
‘We do tell you the best of stories’ — Kweli Journal
With Matrilineage as a Map — Guernica (featured in Memoir Monday)
Poems of Palestinian Motherhood, Loss, Desire and Hope — The Markaz Review
A Poet and Librarian Catalogs Life in Gaza — The Markaz Review
Songs From My Father — ArabLit Quarterly FOLK issue
In Search of Knowledge, Mazid Travels to Baghdad, Jerusalem, Cairo, Granada and Córdoba — The Markaz Review
Eman Quotah’s Playlist for Her Novel Bride of the Sea — Largehearted Boy
Research Notes: Eman Quotah on Bride of the Sea— Necessary Fiction
Writing a Saudi American Novel When No One Has Done It Before — Literary Hub
8 Books About Mothers Separated From Their Daughters — Electric Literature
Reclaiming Ramadan, at home with my daughter — Bethesda Beat
Not all Muslim women wear hijab — USA Today
The last poem I loved: “The Cinnamon Peeler” by Michael Ondaatje — The Rumpus
Yes, letting women drive in Saudi Arabia is a baby step — The Washington Post
More Muslim stories were always needed — The Establishment
The truly useful lessons I learned working as a museum guard — Hello Giggles
Tocolytic — The Toast (reprinted in the anthology Excavating Honesty)
Start Here: Michael Ondaatje — Book Riot
Short Stories
Struggle in the Valley — Kweli
Istanbul — The Rumpus
The Woman in the Well — Necessary Fiction, Dangerous Creatures Series
Eternal Male — Mizna, The Cinema Issue
Only Humans — The Rumpus
Redacted from the Minutes of the Saudi Communist Party, Circa 1950s — Jellyfish Review
You Drive Me Crazy — The Markaz Review
The Comedian’s Incarceration, in Fifteen Jokes — Jellyfish Review (Pushcart nomination)
Blood Qur’an — Witness
The Women Bury Qays Forever — Necessary Fiction
Hyperthymesia — Ms. Aligned: Women Writing About Men
London Fog — Amazing Graces: Yet Another Collection of Fiction by Washington Area Women (also, Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers Top-25 Finalist)
Old Glory — Gargoyle, Vol. 56
The Man with the Scale in his Head — Pindeldyboz (Million Writers Award Notable Stories)