Poetry

2024

“The Sleeper,” & “The Days Are Coming in Abundance,” Southeast Review

On Every Night,” & “The Nights Are Coming in Abundance,” Waxwing

“I, Bride of the Nile,” Muzzle Magazine

“Things Seen Right & Left Without Glasses,” Rusted Radishes

2023

“In the Footsteps of Enayat Al-Zayyat,” Michigan Quarterly Review

“Cairo After You,” Freeman’s: Conclusions

“That Rises Again,” Mizna

“Renovation,” Baltimore Review

“Responsibility,” “Nuweiba,” & “In My Earliest Fear,” Evergreen Review

“Saturday,” Frontier Poetry

“Mausolus,” & “Artemisia,” Poetry Online

“Containment,” Koukash Review

“Pentimento,” Ploughshares

2022

“I Have Not Been a Child in Years,” Tinderbox (2022 Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize Winner)

“Garden City, Cairo,” Redivider (2021 Blurred Genre Contest Winner)

“On a Film Set In the Heart of the City,” Bennington Review

“Girl,” with Yasmine Zohdi, HAD

“Lake Qarun,” Sundog Lit

“Swim in your dream as far as you can until you find an island. Tell us the results.,” Canthius

“Friday Market,” The Iowa Review

“78 Mountgrove Road,” and “78 Mountgrove Road,” Poetry Northwest

“The Choreography of Grief,” Salt Hill Journal

“An Essay on the Road to the End of Jordan,” HAD

“October in Too Many Syllables,” and “Mediterranean, 2004,” The Rumpus

“Desert Prison: A Testimony,” Poetry Magazine

In This Town We Rescue Cats” & “Forbidden Fruit Picker,” Salamander Magazine

“Backstage at the Cairo Opera House,” Split Lip Magazine

2021

“Flood God Virgin: Testimony,” Muzzle Magazine

“Vulnerability Study,” The Puritan

“Dreams of the Detainee,” Poet Lore

“Before the Wedding” and “Is it an imposition if I write poetry about your mother?,” Great River Review

“Bad Temple,” Booth

“Separation Calls,” Poetry London

“Cold Feet,” The Cortland Review

“Night Vision,” Gulf Coast

“I Speak From the Deep End of Night: A Cento,” Columbia Journal

Nile Nuptials” and “I Can’t Stop Seeing Flies,” Mizna

“The Eye Theater Closes Its Doors, and Opens Them Again,” The Yale Review

“jumping off bridge” and “Anxious River,” BAHR // بحر

New Forest Mirror” and “Workshop,” the lickety~split

“Sugar Song,” Barren Magazine

House Arrest” and “Self-Portrait With Anxiety,” Hooligan Magazine

“The Future at My Father’s Feet,” Palette Poetry

“A Bride for a Flood,” Longleaf Review

“Maybe the Lover Doesn’t Return” & “Possible Last Lines,” Honey Literary

“The Next Time I Fall in Love I’ll Bring a Camera,” Half Mystic Journal

“The Most Unlikely of Passages,” The Cincinnati Review

“Amman, 2018,” EX/POST

“Of Course Not All Men Find Music Again,” Hobart

“What This Elegy Wants,” Narrative Magazine

“The Battle of the Camel,” The Common

“When Deer Sleep,” Verse of April

“Now I Have No Book of Dreams,” Tinderbox Poetry Journal

“Mythical Flood” and “Ending,” Menacing Hedge

“August,” The Los Angeles Review

“The Language of the Body,” The Common

“Buried at Sea,” Best of the Net 2020

“I Make Myself Mad, Pluck My Feathers,” The Quick and the Dead: Alejandra Pizarnik Edition, Wendy’s Subway

2020

Minor Detail,” Memorious

Vortex,” wildness

Field of No Justice,” “Fear & Irrigation” & “Scheherazade as Nile Bride,” Four Way Review

Search & Rescue” & “White Desert,” The Boiler

The Book of Two Experiences,” finalist for Breakwater Review’s Peseroff Prize in Poetry

She Was Made Out of Wax,” Barzakh Magazine

[Architecture]” & “Tablets I,” The Sultan’s Seal

The Way Cacti Quiver,” The Common

Mythical Flood,” Michigan Quarterly Review

Buried at Sea,” “Taha,” “Migrant of Love,” & “Sight Lines,” The Adroit Review

Maskoon,” Sukoon

By the Time God Found Us It Was Spring,” The Offing

2019

Drone Fiction,” 20.35 Africa: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry Vol. 2

Skin Without Yours,” The Rumpus

[Heaven],” The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts

Instructions for getting around a desert,” The Common

Half Brides,” American Chordata

Come Here Where Are You Going Come Here,” The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 3: Halal If You Hear Me

Welcome the Night, in Which We Are Hidden,” & “Ways of Entering”,
Nimrod International Journal

Oh master of two worlds,” “Wet and wanting,” & “The other side of everything,”

Scarlet: Jaded Ibis Press

Oud through Nejmah's door,” SOFTBLOW

2018

Balding the Desert,” & “Finally the land is surrounded by seeds,” Jet Fuel Review

Hate,” & “All my life I wanted to be a gift to the Nile,” Anomaly

Besmellah,” The Common

The Prestige of Terror,” Winter Tangerine