Nov 18, 2024
Interview: Chassés-croisés
The best thing about being interviewed for the TV5 show Chassés-croisés was meeting the incandescent Sophie Foiron. She's as warm and...
Jan 30, 2024
Poem: Kinship
I wrote this poem some time after the assault on Gaza, then read it in December at the Poets Against War! event I co-hosted with Norman...
Nov 9, 2023
Review: The Philistine
How amazing to find this recent review on Instagram, especially now as Gaza lies under the rubble of frenzied revenge. It's a real gift...
Sep 27, 2023
THIS MAGAZINE: Zora
This Magazine published my story Zora in their Summer Reading issue. The most amazing thing about it is the illustration! By the uber...
Sep 7, 2022
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....
May 1, 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...
Aug 22, 2021
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...
Dec 14, 2020
Where Trend Meets Tradition
North American Podcast looks at the overlapping phenomenon and cultures between the US and Canada. In September, Lia Grainger contacted...
Jul 27, 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 17, 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 14, 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...
Jan 10, 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....
Dec 11, 2018
Smashed
Montreal Writes, a local literary journal, has published a selection of my photographs. You can see the collection here.
Dec 9, 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...
Nov 14, 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...