

Eulogy for Emily
My mother died on August 23, 2022, at the age of 88. A long life, dementia at the end to allow her to go out in style. Fuck dementia....
Sep 7, 2022


Where is My Country
This poem was published in the April 2022 edition of Font (fontmag.ca). The accompanying photo is a something I took in Egypt many moons...
May 1, 2022


Review: "A story that asks to be heard"
I sent my novel to the reviewer at Seven Circumstances a couple of years ago. She has reviewed several LLP books and I like her honest...
Aug 22, 2021


Where Trend Meets Tradition
North American Podcast looks at the overlapping phenomenon and cultures between the US and Canada. In September, Lia Grainger contacted...
Dec 14, 2020


BlueMet: Love Came Here
The festival Metropolis Bleu asked me and a handful of other writers to write about a place, landmark or monument in Montreal. I chose...
Jul 27, 2020


Review: "Art, Love, Family in Cairo and Palestine"
This review is among the best I've ever received for The Philistine. It's kind of left me breathless. How honoured I feel to have had...
Jul 17, 2020


CultMTL: Top 10 Living Author
Maybe it was my mother's Bingo club, or maybe I just baked bread for enough people over the years, but it has all culminated in being...
Jul 14, 2020


I've been podcasted
The exceedingly curious and gallant John Faithful Hamer brought me into the studio for his unbelievably wide-ranging podcast, Likeville....
Jan 10, 2020


Smashed
Montreal Writes, a local literary journal, has published a selection of my photographs. You can see the collection here.
Dec 11, 2018


Heard the buzz
Montreal writer Toula Drimonis posted about my book on Instagram. It was beyond thrilling. I don't know her personally, but she's got a...
Dec 9, 2018


Review: "a bittersweet story of barriers and restrictions"
This was in the Globe and Mail today. Not accessible if you don't have a paid account - I subscribed just to see this lol. It's part of a...
Nov 14, 2018


Review: "A five star debut"
This review is from The Miramichi Reader, a great site that is quickly growing to be a player on the Canadian literary scene. Montrealer...
Nov 13, 2018


Winter, the Waiter, Water
This story was recently published in the final edition of Danforth Review . Helmed by Michael Bryson for the past 20 years or so, it was...
Sep 5, 2018


Review: "care and sensitivity"
This review by Piali Roy is from the June issue of Quill & Quire. Set in the late 1980s around the time of the first Palestinian...
Jun 12, 2018


All that effort for the very last ditch
I wrote a guest blog post for Gail Anderson-Dargatz (here), who helped me work through the last drafting of The Philistine. Her input and...
Apr 9, 2018
















