Muslims are terrified, but we won’t be intimidated by Trump
Once the election results became terrifyingly clear, I wrote this for The Guardian. Early on election evening, my Muslim friends and I …
Donald Trump has made it clear: in his America, Muslim citizens don’t exist
In The Guardian, I argue that while Trump will court other voters, he ignores Muslim Americans completely. The 2016 American presidential election …
The US just bombed Yemen, and no one’s talking about it
The election is blinding us to other realities. This is one of them. I wrote about it for The Guardian. What if …
Guess what? You can be a Muslim American and oppose misguided wars
I wrote this piece for The Guardian. Khizr Khan very nearly stole the show from Hillary Clinton at last night’s Democratic national …
Donald Trump doesn’t scare me
I wrote this essay for The Guardian, part of which is below: This is a different country than Trump voters understand it …
Islamophobia and the American Election
I wrote this essay on Islamophobia and “white anxiety” shortly before the November 2012 US election, and it was published in The …