“Stealing Ideas in the Ancient World” | New Lines Magazine, 3 March 2023

“Golden Odes and Ruby-Red Letters: Why Classical Arabic Literature Matters Today” |
BYU Humanities Center Blog, 7 November 2022

“The House of His Desires: The Life and Legacy of al-Hallaj” | Lapham’s Quarterly,
31 October 2022

“What Happens if You Meet a Jinn?” | New Lines Magazine, 31 October 2022

“Tales of Two Jackals” (on Kalila and Dimna) | Aeon Magazine, 11 March 2022

“Humphrey Davies (1947-2021), a Life in Translation” | New Lines Magazine,
7 December 2021

“Will Denis Villeneuve’s Dune Live Up to Frank Herbert’s Novel?” |
Prospect Magazine UK, 11 October 2021

“Women Warriors of the Early Muslim World” | New Lines Magazine, 25 August 2021

“Wounded Privacies: The Writings of Jokha Alharthi” | Sada Magazine
(Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), 24 August 2021

مجلة سرد أدبي الإلكترونية، 30 يونيو 2021 | “في البدء كانت … البداية
(“In the Beginning was … the Beginning”, essay in Arabic, 30 June 2021)

“The Seven Hanging Odes of Mecca” | New Lines Magazine, 28 May 2021

“What a Free-thinking Medieval Muslim Can Teach us about Animal Welfare” |
Prospect Magazine UK, 13 April 2021

“Introducing The Mu’allaqat for Millennials” | ArabLit.org, 19 November 2020

“The Tigers are Loose” | ArabLit Quarterly 2, no. 4 (Fall 2020)

“The Crime of Translation” | ArabLit Quarterly 2, no. 3 (Summer 2020)

“Lost in Translation: Classical Arabic Literature” | The Millions, 26 November 2019

“In Love and Word Ensnared” | ArabLit.org, 19 November 2019

“Rushdie’s Deal with the Devil” | LA Review of Books, 30 January 2019
***Featured in The Banned Books Reader, an anthology of essays from The Los
Angeles Review of Books in honor of Banned Books Week 2020

“The Benefits of a Foreign-Language Tattoo” | The Atlantic, 9 December 2018

“All Men by Nature Desire to Know” | Bridges (BYU Alumni Magazine), Spring 2018