FICTION

 

Emissaries, London: Barakunan, 2023. ISBN 978-1-3999-3363-6

 

Paolo (Arabic: باولو), novel, Cairo-Beirut-Tunis: Dar Al-Tanwir, 2016. ISBN 978-977648-358-3

 

The Crocodiles (Arabic: التماسيح), novel, Beirut: Dar Al-Saqi, 2013. ISBN 978-1-85516-878-7. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2015. ISBN 978-160980-571-5

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The Book of the Sultan’s Seal: Strange Incidents from History in the City of Mars (Arabic: كتاب الطغرى: غرائب التاريخ في مدينة المريخ), novel, Cairo: Dar Al-Shorouk, 2011. ISBN 978-9-77092-988-9. Beirut: Arab Institute for Research and Publishing, 2018. ISBN 978-6-14419-868-1. USA: Interlink, 2015. ISBN 978-1-56656-916-3. Geneva: Éditions Zoé, 2016. ISBN 978-2-88927-378-2

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Azhar ash-shams (Arabic: أزهار الشمس; Flowers of the Sun), short stories, Cairo: Dar Sharqiyat, 1999

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POEMS, ESSAYS

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Walakinna Qalbi: Ma ba'd al Mutanabbi (Arabic: ولكن قلبي: ما بعد المتنبي; And Yet My Heart: Post Mutanabbi), essays and poems, with illustrations by Walid Taher, Dammam: Dar Athar, 2022. ISBN 978-603-91904-5-5

 

Walakinna Qalbi: Mutanabbi al Alfiya al Thalitha (Arabic: ولكن قلبي: متنبي الألفية الثالثة; And Yet My Heart: Third Millennium Mutanabbi), 20 poems and a personal essay, with illustrations by Walid Taher (on a grant from the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture), Cairo-Beirut-Tunis: Dar Al-Tanwir, 2021. ISBN 978-977-828-060-9

 

Barra and Zaman: Reading Egyptian Modernity in Shadi Abdel Salam’s The Mummy, Palgrave Macmillan (Pivot): Arab Cinema Series, 2020. ISBN 978-3-030-61353-2

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Arab Porn, essay (ebook only), 60Pages (long-form collective), 2016. ASIN B01J4YMPZK. Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2017. ISBN 978-3-95757-382-7

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Diwan 90: Articles on Arabic Literature, ebook only, 2014

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Yadhhar malak (Arabic: يظهر ملاك; An Angel Appears), poems, ebook only, 2011

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Kull amakinina (Arabic: كل أماكننا; All Our Places), poems and essays, Cairo: Dar Al-Ain, 2010. ISBN 978-9-77490-022-8

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Shamal al qahira gharb al filibbin (Arabic: شمال القاهرة غرب الفلبين; North of Cairo, West of the Philippines), travel essays, Beirut: Riyad El-Rayyes, 2009. ISBN 978-9-95321-422-1

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Bourguiba ala madad (Arabic: بورقيبة على مضض; Bourguiba Reluctantly), part two of Beirut shi mahal (without photos), Beirut: Riyad El-Rayyes, 2008. ISBN 995-3-21334-8

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Beirut shi mahal (Arabic: بيروت شي محل; Beirut Some Place), photo travelogue, Alexandria: Amkenah Books, 2006

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BYLINES

3:AM Magazine
60Pages

Aeon
Al Ahram

Angry Voices (University of Arkansas)
Arab Pop
Asymptote
The Atlantic
Banipal

Beirut 39 (Bloomsbury USA)
Berfrois
Bidoun
BOMB

Brains Confounded (NYU Library of Arabic Literature)
BULL

The Collagist
The Chattahoochee Review
Chimurenga
The Common
The Daily Telegraph
Doek!
Exchanges

A Face in Time (Zeitouna)

Figli del Nilo (Mesogea) 

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Quarterly
GQ Middle East
Guernica

Internazionale
The Kenyon Review
KGB Bar
Jadaliyya
AlJumhuriya
Lettre International
Literary Hub
Litro
Los Angeles Review of Books
Mada Masr
The Markaz Review
Mashallah News
Michigan Quarterly Review
Middle East Eye Discovery
Minor Literatures
Miranda
The National Abu Dhabi
New Lines
The New York Times

The Ordinary Chaos of Being Human (Penguin India)
Parnassus

Der populistische Planet (C. H. Beck)
Queen Mob's Tea House

Reflections (Bloomsbury USA)
Reportagen
RIC Journal

Rowayat
SALZ

Sherif Street Studio (Look Studios)

Súcasná egyptská literatúra (Veda)
The White Review

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