In Zohran Mamdani's remarkable speech on the 24th of October 2025 the candidate for the mayor of New York city brought to bear the rigour of his academic father to understand and define a pressing problem and the artistry of his filmmaker mother to, in less than 10 minutes, communicate it.1 Which is not only the reality of Islamophobia...
It is surprising how little has changed in the world's first livestreamed genocide despite the loud proclamations of 'ceasefires' on the 10th of October 20251 and a 'peace summit' on the 13th2.
I saw a video of a Palestinian man released from Israeli torture who found out that his family had been murdered by Israel. He was besides himself with grief; the small little gift he had made for his daughter now useless.1
Let us talk about the civilians murdered on the 7th of October 2023. Civilians such as Awni El-Dous.
October is Islamic History Month or so I'm told and what better way to celebrate than picking up my novel that's based on Islamic history!
The history of West Asia after WWI is not complicated. It's a very straightforward story...
I have been wearing a kuffiyeh or a free Palestine scarf since the early days of 2024, back when they were hard to find. What makes me angry is that I am still one of the only ones that does so in my area.
So it's been a week since my book "Under The Full and Crescent Moon" launched and the question becomes, What's next?
The fight for the liberation of all Palestinians in all of Palestine has seen some major victories lately
So today I became a published author and it is with incredible gratitude that I had the opportunity to use this new status to sign an open letter condemning the Zionist and genocidal state of Israel's murder of more than 244 Palestinian journalists. The number has grown since the time signatures started being collected.
The open letter states...