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Conclusion: Wounds Unwound
Can I write 25,000 words? Yes. Did I learn anything? Also yes.
The Wound That Returned
So what about this AI stuff? Or, “yet another Islam and AI essay.”
The Long Version
A guy with my name won a senate primary.
The Wound That Waited
Islam puts Freud on the couch.
The Edge of American Socialism
How Palestine became a door into American socialism.
Own Goal
A “Zionist” World Cup conspiracy?
The Wound That Landed
The dramatic dilemma of Darwin.
The Wound That Missed
Why Copernicus was a dud.
Introduction: The Four Recenterings
Copernicus, Darwin, Freud, and AI.
The Children's Games
Texas linked a Muslim sports event to a terror network. The history is more complicated.
The First Frame
Reconstructing a week in October.
Notes
The Rooms
I don’t speak Arabic to my son, and can't fully defend the choice.
Essays
What Peace Asks of Us
A reflection on The Future is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land by Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon.
Essays
Reading the Future in Someone Else's Past
Reflections on Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries by Nicholas Lemann.
Notes
Who Counts as Innocent
I dismissed the claim that some don’t see Israelis as civilians. I was wrong.
Essays
Who Gets to Be Egyptian?
A personal and historical essay on how Egyptian identity was built, narrowed, and enforced.
Notes
Dual Disappointment
Why the same war produces incompatible meanings.
Notes
That Texani Piece was AI
Do I use AI to write? Yes. Here’s how.
Essays
Theatre and the Muslim Imagination
I've been sitting in the same theatre for years, never hearing “Salam.” So I went looking.
Essays
I’m Moving to Bellaire
What does it mean for Muslims to move to previously segregated neighborhoods?
Essays
World’s Best Brownie
Beyond “is gelatin halal?” My journey with brownies, gelatin, and Impossible pork.