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Creative Nonfiction

  • Street View (The Bellingham Review, 2023)

  • Sunday School (Black Warrior Review, 2021)

  • Fluency (Brevity, 2018)

  • Bone Ghost (Diagram, 2017)

  • A Map of Lost Things (Catapult, 2017)


Essays

  • From Somalia to south Oregon— How Basketball Reunites Civil War Survivors (Al Jazeera, 2024)

  • The Crack Down on the Stop Cop City Movement Is a Warning Sign (Teen Vogue, 2024)

  • The Guerrilla Is Like a Poet (till we free, 2024)

  • National Islamophobia Strategy Is PR Stunt to Protect Biden’s Political Future (Truthout, 2024)

  • For Somali Immigrants, Trucking Life Echoes Traditional Nomadism (Atlas Obscura, 2023)

  • African People Bear the Weight of the US’s Failed War on Terror (Truthout, 2022)

  • Love Island’s First Black Winners: A Summer of Love and Protest (Slate, 2020)

  • Colonialism, Explained (Teen Vogue, 2020)

  • A Second Chance at Sisterhood (The New York Times, 2019)

  • Do Black Lives Matter in the Immigrant Rights Movement? (Al Jazeera, 2017)

  • A Child of Refugees on the Front Lines of the U.S. Border War (The Establishment, 2016)

  • When We Criminalize Students, African-American Kids Suffer (Pacific Standard, 2016)


Anthologies

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