Essays and Reviews

Fady Joudah’s […] Dares Us to Listen to Palestinian Words—and Silences — The Markaz Review

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

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

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 (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)