Articles
"Looking Past Clichés"
The Nation
May 2008
"The fear factor in the campaign"
The Boston Globe
April 2008
"Turning Tide"
Elle Magazine
April 2008
"The Fake Prince of Facebook"
The Nation
February 2008
"Bound by tragedy"
Los Angeles Times
January 2008
"The Dot Matrix"
The Nation
January 2008
"Turning Tide"
Internazionale
December 2007
"Beyond the Veil"
The Nation
December 2007
"Revenants"
The Nation
November 2007
"Holy Wars"
Chicago Tribune
September 2007
"Censorship's New Clothes"
The New York Times
February 2007
"Examining a reason to live, in and beyond Iran"
The Boston Globe
January 2007
"It's still by the book"
The Guardian
January 2007
"Native Speaker"
Boston Review
September 2006
"Cliches and capital letters"
The Guardian
September 2006
"Naguib Mahfouz: An Appreciation"
The Nation
August 2006
"'Home' is where the art is."
The Boston Globe
July 2006
"Survival Skills"
The Huffington Post
July 2006
"The Missionary Position"
The Nation
June 2006
"A Whole New World"
The Washington Post
May 2006
"Days of Terror"
The Huffington Post
May 2006
"Exile and the Kingdom"
The Nation
March 2006
"Turmoil at Heart of Essay Collection"
The Oregonian
March 2006
"Scheherazade Has Left The Building"
The May Queen
March 2006
"An Immigrant's Take"
Proud to Be Liberal
February 2006
"Seth's Portrait of an Improbable Marriage"
The Boston Globe
January 2006
"Review of Shadow of the Wind"
The Los Angeles Review
January 2006
"El Dorado"
First Intensity
November 2005
"Smith Takes on Subject of Beauty"
The Oregonian
October 2005
"Fiction in the Age of Poverty"
Powells.com
October 2005
"Rushdie the Writer Can't Shake the Cloud of Celebrity"
The Oregonian
October 2005
"Love and Betrayal in Colonial Africa"
The Nation
September 2005
"Rushdie Pits God and State"
The Oregonian
September 2005
"In Mexican Saint's Story, the Logical and Divine Coverge"
The Oregonian
June 2005
"Tradition, Reform and the Future of Islam"
The Oregonian
May 2005
"Better Luck Tomorrow"
The Baltimore Review
January 2005
"The Lessons"
Mizna
December 2004
"A Nice Young Man"
Pindeldyboz
November 2003
"The Cult of the Ethnic Writer"
Moby Lives
October 2003
"Arab-Bashing For Fun and Profit"
The Los Angeles Times
July 1997
"Bride Walks Down Aisle of Stereotyping"
The Los Angeles Times
January 1996