The Weapon That Doesn’t Stop Cluster munitions don't discriminate by design. The law against them is real. The states that matter most never signed it — including ours.
Who Counts as Innocent Until now, I dismissed the claim that some people don’t see Israelis as civilians. Then I was in a discussion where no one disagreed with it.
Who Gets to Be Egyptian? A personal and historical essay on how Egyptian identity was built, narrowed, and enforced—traced through one family across five generations.
Dual Disappointment Why the same war produces incompatible meanings — and why, for some, those meanings don't split across a debate. They split inside a single mind.
Theatre and the Muslim Imagination I've been sitting in the same theatre for years, never hearing “Salam.” So I went looking: Cairo, Karbala, Indonesia, Pakistan, Los Angeles. We were always on stage.
I’m Moving to Bellaire What does it mean for Muslims to move to high-income neighborhoods that were previously segregated?
World’s Best Brownie Beyond “is gelatin halal?” What does it mean for a thing to be itself? My journey with brownies, gelatin, and Impossible pork.
