WRITING

A selection of fiction, essays, scholarship and opinion pieces

Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Publications

Exclusion, empathy, and Islam: The Runaways in the literary marketplace (Journal of Postcolonial Writing, May 2023)

“A Different Kind of Humanism”: Edward Said’s Césairian Critical Humanism” in The Routledge Companion to Humanism and Literature Ed. Michael Bryson (New York: Routledge, March 2022)

“Picturing Female Followers of Mahomet as Veiled Maids: Muslim Women and the Victim/Seductress Binary” in Postcolonial Text (Vol. 13, No.1, 2018)

The New Yorker

Following the Success of Twitter for Instagram People, We Bring You Other Meta Versions of Apps You Already Have (HUMOR/SHORT FICTION)

Catapult

Hopscotch & Hellfire (FICTION)

The Belladonna

Male Loneliness Epidemic Upgraded to Male Loneliness Pandemic: FAQs (HUMOR/SHORT FICTION)

Rich Cat, Poor Cat: What the Rich Know and Other Lessons from a Ten-Year-Old Multi-Millionaire (HUMOR/SHORT FICTION)

David Attenborough Narrates the Great Twitter Migration (HUMOR/SHORT FICTION)

We Are Unable to Offer You the Position Because That’s Never What Anyone Means by Swift Scholar (HUMOR/SHORT FICTION)

I Am Your Dating App and I Am Hiding Your Soulmate (HUMOR/SHORT FICTION)

Little Old Lady Comedy

Excerpts From The 2050 Gossip Girl Reboot (HUMOR/SHORT FICTION)

Weekly Humorist

Zillow Listings for Literary Properties (HUMOR/SHORT FICTION)

The Atlantic

The Character Who Made Me Love Brooklyn Nine-Nine (ESSAY/CULTURAL CRITICISM)

Generations Now

Tomato Season (PERSONAL ESSAY)

Contributions to Anthologies

“The Spaces in Between” in The Feminism of Our Mothers, 2023/2024 (PERSONAL ESSAY)

“Paye, Pressure and Patience: A Life in Pakistani Cooking” in Dastarkhwan: Food Writing from Muslim South Asia ed. Claire Chambers, 2021 (also known as Desi Delicacies) (PERSONAL ESSAY)

“Twenty-six Seconds” in I’ll Find My Way: An Anthology of Short Stories ed. Maniza Naqvi. Publisher, Oxford University Press, 2014 (FICTION)

DAWN

Making a Misogynist (OPINION)

Women Workers (OPINION)

Empathy Over Empty Gestures (ESSAY)

Has corporate feminism come to solve Pakistan’s social problems? Not quite (ESSAY/CULTURAL CRITICISM)

Pakistani English Novel’s Ceaseless Quest for Identity (ESSAY/CULTURAL CRITICISM)

3 Quarks Daily

From Anglicists And Orientalists To English-Medium And Urdu-Medium: Review Of “The Identity Reconstruction Of Subaltern English Learners” (REVIEW)

Review of Muneeza Shamsie’s Definitive Anthology of Pakistani Literature (REVIEW)

In Defense of the MFA: A Review of “Narrating Pakistan” (REVIEW)

The Missing Slate

Write What You Know? (ESSAY)

Age of Blight by Kristine Ong Muslim (BOOK REVIEW)

Editors’ Picks 2015: The Daughters by Adrienne Celt (BOOK REVIEW)

Editors’ Picks 2014: The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell (BOOK REVIEW) 

Panel Discussion with Arno Camenisch in New York

Coverage of The Muslim Protagonist Literary Symposium at Columbia University

Interview with Arthur Davis

Interview with Madeleine Lee

Interview with Anis Shivani

PROTAG

The War Correspondent (FICTION)

Blue Minaret

Eclipse (FICTION)

The Express Tribune

The Politics of US Aid to Pakistan (OPINION)

Altmuslimah

When Reason is Unreasonable (ESSAY)

Columbia Daily Spectator

How Do I Look? (OPINION)

Dreaming Again (OPINION)

Best of Brooklyn Bookstores

CU Bellydance Shakes off Stereotypes with Weekly Workshops