photo by: Usama Alshaibi

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Recent publications:​

• I have two poems published in the first issue of Nerve to Write.
• My manifesto i will not break my bodymind for my art is published in Wordgathering.
• My poem everything is all at once was published in Rituals of Belonging: Trans/Space is Expanding. view the digital anthology here.
• An excerpt of like a dog was reprinted in the second volume of the East Window Journal of Written and Visual Arts. you can purchase a copy here.
• My first book, like a dog, is now available from punctum books!

Upcoming events and publications:

• I co-produced Trip Ziggurat, a new short film by Usama Alshaibi. The film will be screening at several upcoming film festivals: ACT Human Rights Film Fest, Fort Collins, CO: Screening Date 4/10 at 7:15pm | Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Fest, Minneapolis, MN: 4/18 at 11:10am | Chicago Palestine Film Fest, Chicago, IL: Screening Date 4/18 from 6pm | Arab Film Festival at Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI: Festival Dates 5/5-5/10 | Mountain Film Fest, Telluride, CO: Screening Date 5/23 at 3pm.
• In collaboration with Usama Alshaibi and East Window Gallery, we will have a community engagement event for Trip Ziggurat on June 12, 2026 at 7pm at East Window in Boulder, CO. This event will feature a Q&A with Usama Alshaibi, lauren samblanet, and Ramzy Abueita, Readings from Carolina Ebeid and dena harry saleh, and a presentation by Boulder-Nablus Sister City Project.

news:

• I was named a finalist for ALOCASIA’s microgrant for queer nature writers.
• You can now watch the recording of the Punctum Books reading fundraiser: Crips for Esims for Gaza which includes readings from Ammiel Alcalay, Marta Cariello, Iain Chambers, Alexandra Juhasz, Lauren Samblanet, Léopold Lambert, & Jay Schaffner.

Upcoming workshops/teaching events: