Winter (AGNI, 2025)

Stranger Kin (The Sun, 2024)

Wake (Ploughshares, 2023)

This Shattering (CRAFT, 2023 — finalist for the 2023 Disquiet Prize, shortlisted for the 2023 CRAFT Creative Nonfiction Award, and nominated for the 2024 Pushcart Prize)

Cairo Song (Granta, 2023)

Things I Didn’t Know (Granta, 2017)

Life after the Squares: Reflections on the Consequences of the Occupy Movements (Social Movement Studies, 2016 and Alexia in Spanish translation, 2016)

A Wish Not to Betray: Some Thoughts on Writing and Translating Revolution (Translating Dissent: Voices from and with the Egyptian Revolution, London: Routledge, November 2015)

Cairo: September 2014 (Granta, 2015)

To Get to Other Places You Lost (The Abraaj Group Art Prize, 2014)

This July (an essay on collective heartbreak, Granta, 2013)

To Willingly Enter the Circles, the Square (an essay on a volunteer taskforce combating sexual violence in Tahrir Square, Jadaliyya, 2013)

Revolution Revived (Granta, 2011) 

A Taste of Four Cities (A Sea of Words, Barcelona: IEMed/Icaria, 2011)