Short Stories
- “Tiresias.” Fit For the Gods, Vintage, edited by S. Zainab Williams & Jenn Northington (2023).
- “The Voyeurs.” Kink: Stories, Simon & Schuster, edited by R.O. Kwon & Garth Greenwell. 2021.
- “Wing.” The Kenyon Review, Jan/Feb 2018.
- “The Peaceable Night.” PANK Magazine, Issue 12.2. 2017.
- Translated into Italian in Pidgin Edizioni by Raffaella Maisto (2017).
- Translated into German in Lichtungen (2019). An excerpt in German can be heard on Radio Helsinki (Dec 2019).
- “Orchard Street Tenement.” Bird’s Thumb, Vol 3, Issue 3. 2016.
- “Two Hikes.” Eleven Eleven, Issue 21. 2016.
- “Everything Blooms.” Mizna, Vol 17.1. 2016.
- Reprinted with an introduction by Sonia Ali in Electric Lit (2017).
- “Samira Halawi.” Clackamas Literary Review, Volume XX. 2016.
- “White Birds.” The Normal School, Vol 9, Issue 1. 2016.
- “Like Fig Trees in Winter.” The Saturday Evening Post, New Fiction Friday series. 2016. Honorable Mention from Glimmer Train.
- “We Will Tell Our Children.” Gulf Stream Literary Magazine, Issue 14. 2015. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
- “Mujaddara and Myrrh.” Mizna, Vol 16, Issue 1. 2015.
Flash
- “The Physicist’s Lover Dies of a Stroke.” Waxwing, Issue 16. 2018.
- “The Boy Has Always Lived Here.” Mizna, Volume 19.1. 2018.
- “Stones Falling.” Third Point Press, Issue 3. 2015. Nominated for Best of the Net.
- “Enough.” Sukoon, Volume 3, Issue 1. 2015.
Essays
- “Enemy of the Mountain” (ENG) / “Il nemico della montagna” (ITA). Thinking Like a Mountain / Pensare come una montagna, GAMeC, Oct 2025.
- “An Incomplete History of Trans Immortality.” Both/And, Electric Literature, 2025.
- “The First Work.” Hello, Goodbye, Hello: The Sally and Don Lucas Artists Residency Program (2024).
- “What Remains of New York’s Little Syria?” The New Arab, 2023.
- “Water With No Center.” Thus Waves Come In Pairs: Thinking with the Mediterraneans, Sternberg Press and TBA21-Academy (2023).
- “On Queerness.” Letters to a Writer of Colour, Vintage (2023).
- “Sea Monsters are Trans, I Don’t Make the Rules.” Oyster River Pages, 2022.
- “What Lies Behind the Words: On Translating While Trans.” Catapult, 2022.
- “Catching the Light: Reclaiming Opera as a Trans Arab.” This Arab Is Queer, Saqi Books (2022).
- “How to Say I Love You In Italian.” Catapult. Feb 2022.
- “Adorning My Trans Body,” essay and photo spread, Just Femme & Dandy, Vol 2. 2022.
- “Starting Testosterone During Ramadan Led Me to the Sacred in My Trans Self.” Catapult, 2021.
- “Pennsylvania, Autumn: the Moment Before the First Draft of The Thirty Names of Night.” Powell’s Books, 2020.
- “Worlds of Our Own Making.” Foreword to Mizna: Queer + Trans Voices issue, 2020.
- “Incantations for Unsung Boys.” Columbia Journal, 2020. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
- “Celebrating Pride Also Means Reclaiming Queer & Trans Power.” Shondaland, 2020.
- “Love Letters to Those Who Came Before Me.” Shenandoah, 2019.
- “Stitching Wounds with Heirloom Thread: Home, Loss, and Forgiveness.” Salon, 2018.
- “The Night in My Hair: Henna, Syria, and the Muslim Ban.” The Paris Review, 2018.
- “Small Acts of Creation: On the Short Story and the Novel.” Bird’s Thumb, 2017.
Interviews & Criticism
- “Decolonial Rearticulations: A Transwomanist Arab Roundtable Dialogue with Trish Salah, Rasha Abdulhadi, Amir Rabih, Zeyn Joukhadar, Joe Kadi, and Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán.” Sinister Wisdom: A Multicultural Lesbian Literary & Art Journal, “Trans/Feminisms” issue (128). 2023.
- “Bishakh Som’s Apsara Engine Envisions the Fantastical Futures That Trans People of Color Deserve.” Lit Hub. 2022.
- “Andrea Abi-Karam Wants to Dance in the Ruins of Capitalism” (interview). them. 2021.
- “Absence Made Present: the Art and Artistic Practice of Diana al-Hadid.” American Craft. 2021.
Poetry
- “timelapse with uprooted trees and disembodied animals” & “after christchurch.” We Call to the Eye and the Night: Love Poems by Writers of Arab Descent, Persea Books (2023).
- “Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty).” The Fairy Tale Review, Vol 17, The Gold Issue. 2021.
- “Trans heaven is a house full of flowers & no word for shame” / “Il paradiso trans è una casa piena di fiori, dove la parola vergogna non esiste.” Isuleddas, Cherimus. 2020.
- “litany for the morning after.” Les Carnets de Camargo. 2020.
- “love poem for the newly out.” Cordite Poetry Review 94: BAYT. 2019.
- “Syria” (excerpted from The Map of Salt and Stars, Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 2018). Panorama Journal, Issue 5. 2018.
- “drone footage of Homs, twenty sixteen.” Kweli Journal, Spring 2018 issue. 2018.