Transposition
Harper's Bazaar
A short story about departure and return.
A short story about departure and return.
A short story about two women living in the same house.
An essay about Lebanon's ever‑repeating cycles of war and loss. Excerpted in Rania Matar's Where Do I Go? (Kaph Books, 2025).
An essay about returning to Baalbek to find an old hotel entwined with my family's past.
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.
A short essay about the August 4th blast in Beirut.
On Mohammed Kheir’s Sleep Phase (Two Lines Press, May 2025).
On Charif Majdalani’s Le Nom des Rois (Éditions Stock, August 2025).
Documentary photographer Showkat Nanda on buried archives, generational memory, and dreaming against forgetting in his native Kashmir.
Lebanese artist and filmmaker Ali Cherri takes the Reclus Questionnaire.
Short stories penned while going up the stairs of KGB Bar. Featured in Issue 27: Happiness, Good Advice Land.
On irrational fears, wasting time, God, and how a raven is like a writing desk.
Graduation speech for Harvard Class Day.
Vanitas, The Black Death, Sunset Comix, and more.