Seven Lists
It took seventeen minutes for the policemen to arrive.
What Does It Mean to Be a Muslim Writer?: What Does It Mean to Be a Muslim Writer?
Introduction
Some Notes Against the Burden of Representation
In the 2018 biographical film MANTO, directed by Nandita Das, the Urdu fiction writer Ismat Chughtai selects a pine nut from the handful in her palm and cracks it open with her teeth.
Fiction
Excerpt from Blood Towers
Of all the things he said I can recall only two: He said it all begins at the churning He said this world and its inhabitants are the color of half-baked bricks because the brick maker was distracted and left his task unfinished.
Our Place
There are only a few days in town that really blister, the kind of days that smell like hot garbage.
Poetry
Two Poems
In the streets of Al Nasiriyah / or was it Al Nassriyah?
Essays
Making Peace With English: What I Learned from Reading in French
On his release from prison in the spring of 1962, Ahmed Ben Bella proclaimed: “Nous sommes des Arabes! [We are Arabs!]”
