“Web of Resistance”

2024 Shooter Poetry Competition Winner

“Men at Work”

Flash Fiction Magazine, Apr 20, 2024

“Cold Comfort”

Doubleback Review, Volume 2, October 2020;
first appeared online in Varnish – A Journal of Arts and Letters, Issue 2, January 2018

“Halfway ‘Cross the World:
Pandemic Missives from my Jordanian Family”

winner in the Sacred Essays contest of the Center for Interfaith Relations, June 2020

“a mediocre white man”

(flash memoir)
Tiferet Journal‘s Community blog, April 2019

“That Other Hijab Story”

Culture and Ideas Gold Winner in the Thirteenth Annual Solas Awards
appears on the blogs of both TravelersTales.com and BestTravelWriting.com, April 2019;
first appeared in From Sac, Volume 4, 2016

“Friends With Goats”

reprinted in L’Éphémère Review, Issue 12, September/October 2018;
first appeared online in the Amsterdam Quarterly, Issue 19, June 2017,
and in the Amsterdam Quarterly 2017 Yearbook in December 2017

“The Worst Tenth Grader”

The Font – A Literary Journal for Language Teachers, 2018, Volume 2;
a 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

“Feast Days / أيام الأعياد”

(self-translated poem)
Lunch Ticket, Issue 12, Winter 2017

“Trusting Sayf”

(fiction)
Newfound, March 2017

“Terrorist or Tragedy?
My Struggle with the Tale of Sajida al-Rishawi”

Gulf Stream Literary Magazine, Online Issue #16, Winter 2016