PERSONAL ESSAY & CRITICAL ESSAYS (selected)   

 5.011H. Women, Gender and Theatre: United States,” Encyclopedia of Women
and Islamic Cultures, Volume 5 (Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill 2007). 

“Our Roots in the Mezze: The Politics of Food and Arab American Women
Poets,” from ArabAmericas: Literary Entanglements of the American Hemisphere
and the Arab World, eds. Ottmar Ette and Friederike Pannewick (Frankfurt and
Madrid: Vervuert Verlag/ Iberoamericana, 2006), 137-158. Also translated
 into Portuguese and Spanish. 

“Poetry as Homeland: A Letter to Lisa Suhair Majaj,” Post-Gibran. 

“Boston Yellow Cabs,” An Ear to the Ground: Presenting Writers From 2 Coasts.