Index

2026/Feb/7
in Book, Review
3 min read

Review of The Unravelling of Ou

It's an strange thing to wonder if a sock puppet is a reliable narrator, but that's just one of the many thoughts raised by The Unraveling of Ou by Hollay Ghadery which is a novel narrated entirely by a sock puppet named Ou. This seemingly silly premise is used to great effect to tackle themes of mental illness, generational trauma, and internalized misogyny. It's an easy four out of five stars for me and easy to recommend to anyone interested in these sadly timeless issues. Or just wants to experience an incredibly beautifully written and insightful introspective tale about the mental prisons that we build for ourselves or are built for us by our circumstances.

2026/Feb/1
in Book, Islam
1 min read

World Hijab Day

So as it's #WorldHijabDay, I figured it was a good opportunity to talk about my novel "Under The Full and Crescent Moon" which, as you can see features hijabis, and actually the characters do discuss the practice.

And you might say

2026/Jan/30
in Current Events
3 min read

International Law doesn't apply

International Law doesn't seem to matter one bit when it comes to attacks against Muslim majority parts of the world. There's no better current example of that here on the 30th of Jan 2026 then

2026/Jan/22
in Book, Review
2 min read

Review of In the Country I Love

In The Country I love by Alaa Al-Barkawi is a messy family drama which isn't really my genre but perhaps it should be because this is a wonderful novel, the tl;dr is five stars, go preorder and/or buy if you're reading this after May 2026. Or find it in a library.

2026/Jan/20
in Current Events, Canada
3 min read

Mark Carney doesn't care about International Law

Mark Carney, the Prime Minister of Canada, has been in the news lately. First for

2026/Jan/15
in Current Events
3 min read

Iran's Affairs

The future of the Iranian people should be only for Iranians to decide. Since I am not Iranian I'm not going to say anything more about that.

But

2026/Jan/4
in Current Events
2 min read

Turmoil in Venezuela and Iran

There is a lot of turmoil in Venezuela and Iran here at the very start of 2026 and let me be clear. It is only the people of those countries that have the right to determine their future and they deserve to do so without outside intervention.

But...

2026/Jan/1
in Current Events, Islam
3 min read

Mamdani, Khan, Nenshi

Zohran Mamdani¹, who recently took office as Mayor of New York City is a very exceptional individual. But he's not all that unique.

2025/Dec/31
in Book, Writing
2 min read

Personal Thankfulness

A lot happened in 2025 and, it's just who I am to be focused on the terrible things that are happening in the world.

2025/Dec/27
in Current Events, Palestine
2 min read

Hasbara strategy 2026

Hillary Clinton, on the 2nd of Dec 2025, at a summit setup by pro Israel billionaire Miriam Adelson, complained about young people getting their news from social media.¹

Sarah Hurwitz, former speechwriter for the Obamas offers a solution to this apparent problem by suggesting young Jewish people be prevented from accessing social media until they have been properly groomed to justify unjustifiable Israeli war crimes.²

Self identified Zionist Bari Weiss, now head of CBS news, wants to define the lines of acceptable debate in politics.³

All three obviously want to control what people are allowed to see and say, but what message do they want to allow in their stated desire to shift public opinion back towards being pro the genocidal apartheid Zionist state of Israel.