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My book, Muslimness in Contemporary Literary Imaginations: Twenty-First-Century Muslim Women’s Writing in the Diaspora, has now been released by Routledge under the Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literature series. Continue reading On Writing a Book & a Summer of Many Edits
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Sure, I had the privilege of choosing to leave my homeland, but how much of that choice was really mine to begin with? Continue reading Dear Europe: I Promise I’m Not Staying (On Having a Turkish Passport & Nazlı Koca’s Novel The Applicant)
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Felix Natalis, Virginia Woolf. Continue reading “Into the River”: A Tribute to Virginia Woolf
What role does memory play within a state of perpetual displacement? How does one resist forgetting under this precarity? And what does it mean to truly remember when memory is the space where catastrophe and pain reside? Continue reading “We are Guardians of Memory”: On Sara Abou Ghazal’s Dreams of Ayn Ara
Looking for your next powerful read? Discover how Elif Shafak’s There Are Rivers in the Sky, Tahmima Anam’s Uprising, and Carolina Pihelgas’s The Cut Line offer hope in a world defined by chaos and instability. Continue reading The Quiet Rebellion: On Hope, Despair, and How the 21st-Century Novel Offers a Way Out
This morning, I sat down at my desk, ready to write about the upcoming novels I’m excited for– gifts, if you will, to help me get through the long, lingering months of February and March. Continue reading Upcoming Novels, Snowstorms & the Infinite Oddity of the Human Condition
Sitting here at this coffee shop in Batumi, surrounded by books, warm coffee, and flickering lights, I realize how much we take for granted—how fleeting stability can be and how deep the pain of displacement must feel. Continue reading Of Fireworks & Fears: Meditations on Home, Belonging, and the July 15 Coup
Politics cannot be trusted, I know, but this week and until it lasts I only want to bask in the light of hope and in the possibility of change. Continue reading Elections, a Beam of Light, and Woolf: Finding Hope in Political Despair
And one question that comes to me in waves, along with grief, is this: How do we make sense of an absence that remains perpetually present? Continue reading On Presence of Absence, Grief, and Magical Thinking
The world needs individuals who are unafraid to question, challenge, and think independently—a seemingly silent yet potent form of activism. Continue reading “For the Love of the Books”: A Reflection on Resistance and Literature
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