I write poetry, fiction, essays, dreams, lists. Here’s a non-expansive list of things I’m writing and thinking about:

• shame / pleasure

• memories (repressed, trapped, forgotten, repeated)

• sisterhood

• mothers / daughters

• Palestine and Iraq

• sex

• portals & openings

• time (travel, waiting, non-linearity)

• spirals

• sand

• censorship & surveillance

• trauma / healing

My first book, Revolutions, is an experimental collection of poems and poetic sequences that explores how young Arab women make and unmake their identities as they navigate borders between self and community. How can we honour ourselves and our families? How do we make space for pleasure when everything is deemed 3aib? As I made these revolutions, I practiced writing towards the homeland and the body and learned how intertwined they are. I tried to escape the immigrant writer trap and realized it wasn’t a trap at all.

I see Revolutions as the beginning of my observations/examinations of shame trapped deep in the subconscious and traveling across lineages. I’m interested now in other questions: What does it mean to access or experience my full womanhood? Do dreams and memories hold truth? How do we write stories that are language-less (i.e. How do we access the “language” of the body?)?

I’m interested in creating a life-project that grows and expands with me. I’m interested in procedural, collective, and community-building writing.