Updated: October 10, 2012
After being arrested last week for allegedly vandalizing a controversial ad likening Muslims to "savages," Emmanuel Pardilla, Fordham College at Lincoln Center (FCLC) ’14,...
“Innocence of Muslims,” an anti-Islam video, made a drastic leap from YouTube to the Arab media in recent weeks. This video, shot in front of a green screen in a California studio, mocks Islam...
As a white Muslim woman who does not wear a headscarf, I have been able to avoid many of the humiliating and scarring experiences that my Muslim peers have faced simply because my appearance...
I am the white wash her,
blending in with the walls.
Not tall or broad,
you can fit me
onto a flat hand
like a saucer
a receptor
passive, nice.
I will meet you
with a quiet smile,
my...
Eve squints her new eyes.
The trees, glimmering
in their fresh bark suits,
want to know her name.
The sharpened grass blades
at her feet, white as pear juice,
want...
When we handed our bodies back to each other:
mine, unsure of its new weight,
felt like a thank you note.
Your hands signatured across my back,
like a downpayment on my sorrow.
I...
A stranger feigning patriotism waves a white flag;
he is in my body, his front teeth curve into white flag.
Over there is my country, its limbs crooked
and warped like a tree’s...
Published: April 20, 2011
“Miral,” a film by Julian Schnabel and Rula Jebreal, has sparked controversy ever since its worldwide debut at the Venice Film Festival. “Miral” has been demonstrated...
Published: November 17, 2010
For it, I am a Martian—
Rowing a coracle
Shaped like a ribcage, wish bones for oars.
A goat thief, extracting ovaries
For my lover’s child, I give...
Co-winner Ully Hirsch/Robert F. Nettleton Poetry Prize
Published: April 22, 2010
I. Suicide
In desert cities,
housewives wear head scarves and rubber slippers.
At noon,
army tanks parade...
