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 …
My latest book, This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror, wins award!
I‘m thrilled and delighted to announce that This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror, has just been awarded an Arab …
How we learned all the wrong lessons from 9/11
This is another piece for the The Guardian. I hope you find it worthwhile: I was in New York City 15 years …
Don’t worry! Trump and Clinton will fix Israel/Palestine.*
I wrote this piece for The Guardian, and I hope you like it. In 2017, several months after the United States swears …
On burkinis in France and hijabs in Canada and Scotland: why so different?
Much has been said about the outrageous French burkinis bans that have just been overturned by the French Conseil d’État (which characterized …
Trump has made it clear exactly who should be barred from the US: himself
I wrote this piece for The Guardian. In his major policy speech on foreign policy delivered yesterday in the battleground state of …
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 …
A Handy Pocket Guide of Ten Things Not to Do in Public if You’re Arab in America
As tensions between police and people of color escalate, and as hostility against Arabs and Muslims in the United States rises again …
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 …