I’m writing so we can meet in a better world.

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2023 Short Story | “Too Much Freedom,” Mudun Short Story Anthology, Barjeel Art Foundation
TBD Essay | Caught Between SZR and Al Seef, Living Continuity Publication, Sharjah Architecture Triennial

Jan 2021: Karama: An immigrant neighborhood transformed on Jadaliyya

Editors: Dr. Neha Vora & Dr. Rosie B’sheer. Link.
(Now included in Dr. Rana AlMutawa’s syllabus for NYUAD Social Research & Public Policy)

One of Dubai’s oldest neighborhoods, important to several expat communities, has undergone massive redevelopment in the last few years, causing physical, economic and cultural expulsions of middle-class South Asian residents. Dubai’s urban branding strategy has altered Karama’s physical landscape, demographic composition, and cultural identity.

Feb 2022: Structural Issues & Responsibility in the UAE’s Art Scene on Medium

I wrote this because I could no longer avoid writing it. If you live and work in the UAE (in the arts or outside it, within an institution or outside it), this is worth a read.

Fiction

July 2022: Too Much Freedom on Rusted Radishes (Winner of the Mudun Short Story Prize by Barjeel Art Foundation)

Nov 2021: Advocating for men I cannot look at on Unootha Mag

Jan 2022: I hate rides. Stop trying to convince me otherwise on Medium.

Non-Fiction

Apr 2021: A Gulf Between Me & My Father on Postscript Magazine.

Aug 2021: UAE Neighborhoods, Fetishization & Gendered Middle Class Memories on Medium

Dec 2017: It’s not female competition; it’s self-abuse on Chicks & Balances

Art Writing:

Feb 2023: Through Seeing & Beyond Sight: Exhibition text for Alonso Guevara’s Counting Leaves at Tashkeel AlSerkal

Jan 2023: What will we leave behind? Only tenderness: Exhibition text for Natalya' Konforti’s Rainbows Under Their Feet at Tashkeel AlFahidi

Jan 2023: Three friends visit an exhibition: Exhibition text for Shazia Salam’s Voice-Over-Voice- at Tashkeel