WRITING

THE DOCKET 

 

My examination of U.S. immigration detention included court monitoring at the Cleveland immigration court and observing deportation proceedings for a report put together by a migrant legal defense organization. Witnessing the ways in which bureaucracy is weaponized and used to gratuitously punish and entrap people in an impossible labyrinthine system with no likely exit but deportation led to my writing this personal essay. This is a performance of the essay I delivered for the 2020 Tint Journal Literary Festival, Tinted Tales. 

POEMS

In the Passing + Past Tense + Rooted, Apofenie, July 2025. 

Three Stages of Intimacy, Tint Journal, Spring 2020.

ESSAYS

On Arab American Women's Anti-War Poetry, Michigan Quarterly Review Online, December 2023. 

The Docket, World Literature Today, May 2020. 

FICTION

On the Edges of Sunlight, Story, forthcoming.

The Visit, Sundial Magazine, August 2025.

Thirty Days of Oranges, the other side of hope, December 2023. 

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

Governing Through the Language of Vulnerability: IOM’s Role in EU Border Externalization, Border Crossing, vol. 15, no. 4, 2025.

Subaltern Aurality: Listening to Algerian Women's Voices in Assia Djebar's Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade, Women's Studies: An Inter-disciplinary Journal, vol. 50, no. 4, 2021.

Torture and Traumatic Dehiscence: Améry and Fanon on Bodily Vulnerability, Phenomenology of the Broken Body, edited by Espen Dahl, Cassandra Falke and Thom Erik Eriksen. Routledge, 2019.

A Phenomenological Reading of Gendered Racialization in Arab Muslim American Women’s Cultural Productions, The Comparatist 42, 2018.

The Transversalization of Wildness: Queer Desires and Nonhuman Becomings in Djuna Barnes' Nightwood, Ecosophical Aesthetics: Art, Ethics and Ecology with Guattari, edited by Patricia MacCormack and Colin Gardner. Bloomsbury, 2018.