Selected Writings

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Death of the Author

 

Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature, June 2021.

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Staying and Witnessing

 

Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature, June 2021.

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The Illusion of Us

 

A short story in the collection Arab Women Voice New Realities edited by Dima Nasser and Roseanne Khalaf.

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Teta and me(her)mories

 

Creative nonfiction in João Roque Literary Journal. 2021.

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Cartographically Speaking

 

Creative nonfiction in Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature.

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“Feminine”

 

Poem in Sukoon Magazine. Issue 6. 2015

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Ishq and Bodies Who Falter

 

Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature

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A Manifesto for a Lost Cause

 

In Pomona Valley Review

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Black

 

Poem nominated for ‘Best of the Net Anthology’ 2018

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Activism inside a Kuwaiti Classroom

 

An academic essay about teaching literature and disability studies. In The St. John’s University Humanities Review. 2017.

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Why More of Us Should Study Literature

 

Opinion piece in Sekka Magazine.

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On Writing the Disabled Body

Women and Madness

Who is the Audience?

 

In Arablit.

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In The Markaz Review

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In The BookSeller

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