Journalist and former civil rights lawyer. She is the author of A Country Called Amreeka: US History Re-Told Through Arab American Lives (Simon & Schuster 2009) and editor of Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post 9/11 Injustices (McSweeney’s 2011).  Her narrative nonfiction book, The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria, was released on February 28, 2017, and has been translated into Italian, Turkish, and Romanian. Her reportage has appeared in the New York Times, Foreign Policy, The New Yorker, Guernica and other publications.

The Struggle for Home – The Question of Syria 2019