Zaina arafat
AUTHOR, JOURNALIST, PROFESSOR
Selected Essays, Stories & Articles:
The View From Palestinian America, The New Yorker, May 2024
Fasting for Ramadan While Gaza Goes Hungry, The New Yorker, March 2024
Witnessing Gaza Through My Instagram Feed, New York Magazine, November 2023
Into the Weeds, Serviette, November 2023
The Year I Learned What Fashion Is Really For, Harper's Bazaar, December 2021
From Child Soldier to Children's Advocate, Fordham Lawyer, July 2021
The Delightful Mess of Offline Human Interaction, Xtra Magazine, July 2021
How A Revolutionary Turned A Berlin Mosque Into A Declaration of Love, Xtra, May 2021
Living in a Post-Pandemic Theatre of the Absurd, Xtra, April 2021
The New Normal-not-Normal of Amanda Gorman and Kamala Harris, Xtra, January 2021
From the Frontlines of Democracy in D.C., Xtra, January 2021
"Fashion in Isolation: T-Shirt," Guernica, June 2020
"Writing A Novel of Things Unattained," Literary Hub, June 2020
"You Exist Too Much," Guernica, June 2020
"Our Arab," The Believer, June/July 2018
"When Getting a College Degree Requires Self-Exile," The New York Times, Sept. 2017
"American Dystopia: An Interview With Omar El-Akkad", The Margins, Feb. 2018
“Power Jam: Roller Derby as Political Act,” Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 2017
“Asking Jihadists Why They Hate Us,” Vice, June 2017
“Imagining Trump’s Border Plan as a Guantánamo,’” Vice, May 2017
“Fitzgerald Will Never Die: Review of I’d Die for You, and Other Lost Stories, Vice, April 2017
“Refugees Want to Fall in Love, Just Like Everyone Else,” Vice, March 2017
“This Refugee Is 3D-Printing Lost Limbs for Syrian War Survivors”, Vice, Feb 2017
“Dear Students: A Letter From Your Muslim-American Teacher,” Vice, Nov. 2016
“Wrap Star,” BuzzFeed, Sept. 2016
“Resist,” Iowa Review, Fall 2015
“The Problem With Being Palestinian on Thanksgiving,” BuzzFeed, Nov. 2013
“Are the Rights of Some Citizens Worth More than those of Others?” Huffington Post, Dec 2012
“Obama Avows ‘A New Beginning’ To Muslims,” NPR, June 2009
“Being A ‘Hyphenated American’ Opens Two Worlds,” Christian Science Monitor, Feb 2009
“Life in the Spies’ Back Yard,” The Washington Post, May 2008
“Iraq: Is Partition the Answer?” The Atlantic, Nov. 2006
“In the Face of Genocide,” The Atlantic, Oct. 2006
“Hizbullah Doesn’t Speak for Lebanon,” The Christian Science Monitor, Aug.16, 2006
Selected Portfolios
"Bona Fide Relationships," The Margins.
Through stories, essays, and poems, writers imagine new narratives that speak to Trump’s Muslim ban.
Old School: The Optimistic Hour
