Forthcoming

[short fiction] Confound (The Dial, August 2026)

[short fiction] Flower and Pot (co-written with Vidhi Doshi, AGNI, October 2026)

[short fiction] The Fruit Tree (third-place winner, The Azhar Writing Prize 2026)

Published

[essay] Winter (AGNI, 2025)

[essay] Stranger Kin (The Sun, 2024)

[essay] Wake (Ploughshares, 2023)

[essay] 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)

[essay] Cairo Song (Granta, 2023)

[essay] Things I Didn’t Know (Granta, 2017)

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

[essay] 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)

[essay] Cairo: September 2014 (Granta, 2015)

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

[essay] This July (Granta, 2013)

[essay] To Willingly Enter the Circles, the Square (Jadaliyya, 2013)

[essay] Revolution Revived (Granta, 2011) 

[short fiction/memoir] A Taste of Four Cities (A Sea of Words, Barcelona: IEMed/Icaria, 2011)