Books
2023 Medina By the Bay: Scenes of Muslim Study and Survival. Durham: Duke University Press.
- Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award
Journal Articles
2024 “The Struggle for Abolition,” Frontiers, Volume 45, Issue 1. (forthcoming)
2023 “The Wreck Itself: Between Palestine and American Indian Studies Sovereignty and the Surreal” Critical Ethnic Studies, Volume 8, Issue 1.
“In the Wreck Itself.” We know what it is for, we who have used it, Amy Powell, Ruanne Abou-Rahme, and Basel Abbas (eds.) Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (edited version accepted for online interactive publication of essays related to artwork And yet my mask is powerful).
2018 “Habib in the Hood: Mobilizing History and Prayer towards an Anti-Racist Islam.” Amerasia Journal, Special Issue on Arab American Studies, Volume 44, Issue 1, pp. 61-84.
2014 “A Space for the Spiritual: A Roundtable on Race, Gender, and Islam in the United States,” Roundtable with Su’ad Abdul Khabeer, Evelyn Al-Sultany, and Sylvia Chan-Malik. Amerasia Journal. Volume 40, Issue 1, 2014, pp. 17-33.
Book Chapters
2023 “Islamoscaping Medina by the Bay: The Background of Muslim Life in the San Francisco Bay Area.” Provocative Images in Contemporary Islam. Bart Barendregt, David Kloos, Leonie Schmidt, Mark Westmoreland (eds.). Leiden University Press. (cover image also)
2022 “Once This Was: the Struggles in and for San Francisco.” Hal Fischer Photographs: Critical Essays, Tim Dean (ed.). Gallery 16, San Francisco. (accepted)
2020 “Serving the People and Serving God: The Everyday Work and Mobilizing Force of Dhameera Ahmad” An Afterlife of Black Power: The Enduring Significance of the Black Panther Party Eds., Diane C. Fujino and Matef Harmachis. Haymarket Books, pp. 90-97.
2018 “The Audience Is Still Present: Invocations of El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz by Muslims in the United States.” With Stones in Our Hands: Reflections on Racism, Muslims, and U.S. Empire. Edited by Sohail Daulatzai and Junaid Rana. University of Minnesota Press, pp. 336-353.
2015 “This in the Presence of the World: From March Meeting to The past, the present, the possible.” For Sharjah Biennial 12 catalogue, Sharjah Art Foundation, pp. 28-33.
Film and Book Reviews
2019 Book Review. Neda Maghbouleh’s The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race (Stanford University Press: 2017) and Perin E. Gürel’s The Limits of Westernization: A Cultural History of America in Turkey (Columbia University of Press, 2017) Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Volume 15, Issue 3, pp. 373-376
2017 Film review. Christian Suhr’s Descending with Angels. American Anthropologist, Volume 119, Issue 4, pp. 757-758.
2016 Book review. Ebrahim Moosa’s What is a Madrasa?Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 84, Issue 2, pp. 566-568.
2011 Film review. Roxanne Varzi’s Plastic Flowers Never Die. Visual Anthropology Review, Volume 27, Issue 1, pp. 111-112.
2009 Book review. Claudia Der-Martirosian’s Iranian Immigrants in Los Angeles: the Role of Networks and Economic Interests. For Journal of American Ethnic History. Volume 29, Issue 1, pp. 120-122.