Other Writings
Where I Live
2005
Where I live now the walls are painted green and yellow and ocean blue. The ceilings are high, the rooms […]
Read moreA Father’s Debilitating Illness Cripples His Daughter
2003
Original Publication: San Francisco Chronicle (Page RV – 3) With a voice as clear as water and a hand that is […]
Read moreOne Woman Lifts the Veil on her Islamic Life
2002
Meyebela: My Bengali Girlhood, A Memoir of Growing Up Female in a Muslim World, Taslima Nasrin, Translated from the Bengali […]
Read moreBehind the Veil
2002
Esther’s Children: A Portrait of Iranian Jews, edited by Houman Sarshar. The Center for Iranian Jewish Oral History/ The Jewish […]
Read moreThe Legacy of ‘Esther’s Children’
2002
A chronicle of Iran’s Jews from the Megillah to the 20th century tells a story that few people know. In […]
Read moreAn L.A. Author Feels San Francisco’s Chill
2002
A writer on a book tour finds the city’s ’serious’ literary community to be less than genuine. I’m not one […]
Read moreDestiny’s Child
2001
Original Publication: Los Angeles Times (Home Edition: Book Review, R3) I, the Divine: A Novel in First Chapters by Rabih Alameddine. W.W. […]
Read moreTo Become American
2001
Original Publication: The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles I’m 11-years-old, my world a patchwork of mixed identities and conflicting beliefs, […]
Read more