Ilhan Omar has become the target of a dangerous hate campaign
I wrote this essay for The Guardian regarding the recent attacks on Representative Ilhan Omar. Here’s a question for you. Which American …
Massacre in New Zealand
Iwrote two pieces in response to the horrific mass shooting of 50 Muslim worshipers in New Zealand by a white supremacist. In …
The Muslim ban ruling legitimates Trump’s bigotry
I wrote this for The Guardian. The US supreme court has upheld the Trump administration’s Muslim ban. By doing so, the court has …
The Year I Stopped Breathing: On Being Muslim and American in the Age of Trump
I wrote this essay for The Nation, reflecting on what life is like one year after the Trump presidency. It took a …
The supreme court upheld bigotry before. Its Muslim ban ruling does it again
At The Guardian: The US supreme court has decided that the Trump administration’s Muslim ban can proceed in full, even as legal …
What’s a ‘lone wolf’? It’s the special name we give white terrorists
I wrote this essay for The Guardian on the Las Vegas shooting and why we treat domestic and foreign terrorism differently. We …
How the ‘homophobic Muslim’ became a populist bogeyman
The latest Pew Research Center survey had many interesting results. In this article for The Guardian, I examine one of them, and …
More on the Muslim Ban
In this essay, written for The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, I look at Trump’s Muslim ban in some more depth. I’ve …
On the Supreme Court’s ruling re: Trump’s Travel Ban
I wrote this piece for The Guardian, wherein I argue that the Supreme Court’s decision to lift many of the injunctions on …
Trump’s Twitter attacks on London Mayor Sadiq Khan
In this piece, written for The Guardian, I argue (among other things) that “Trump’s own statements so often contradict his own stated …