Transposition, Harper's Bazaar
A short story about departure, published in the July/August 2023 print issue of the magazine for its annual contest.
Solomon's Mother, Zoetrope
A short story about two women living in the same house, awarded an honorable mention in Winter 2021 by Francis Ford Coppola's annual story contest.
Stairway Stories, KGB Bar Lit
Short stories penned while going up the stairs of KGB Bar. Featured in Issue 27: Happiness, Good Advice Land.
Li Beirut, Again, Financial Times
A personal essay about Lebanon's ever-repeating cycles of war and loss. Published in November 2024.
Heliopolis, Harper's Magazine
An essay about returning to Baalbek to find a mysterious hotel entwined with my family’s past. Published in January 2025.
Writing Samer, Financial Times
A meditation on illness and time, co-written with my friend and mentor Samer Iskandar, a former FT journalist whose brain cancer diagnosis eroded his ability to write and began our collaboration. Published in February 2024.
Bidding the Phoenix Goodbye, British Vogue
A short essay about the August 4th blast in Beirut that won the 2021 Vogue Talent Contest. Published in September 2021.
Monthly Spotlight, Other Voices Other Geniuses
On irrational fears, wasting time, God, pet peeves, and how a raven is like a writing desk.
I Am Your Body, and I'm Not Too Crazy About You, Either, Byline
Thoughts from your body after years of enduring you, too. Published in September 2024.
Ivy Oration, Harvard Class Day 2022
Graduation speech for Harvard Class Day, 2022.
Author Page, The Harvard Lampoon
Vanitas, The Black Death, Office Crush, Finals at Film School, The Time I Got Caught Milking, Recovery Clinic, Sunset Comix, and How Cancer Eventually Got Cured.
Author Page, Points In Case
- "The Book of Genesis, If God Was Creating a Party"
- "My Day as an Intern, as Imagined by My Exceedingly Optimistic Parents"
- "Five Turtles You Saved to Get into College and the Spine-Chilling Deaths They’ve Died Since"