1. Downloadable Articles

Evoking Past Conflagration is not Helping. The Age, 21 August 2006.  Link to Evoking Past Conflagration…

The Tribes of War. The New York Times, 27 July 2006.  Link to Tribes of War

Covering One’s Track: Desert Roads from Memory to Fable, essay on memory and loss, Overland, June 2000.
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Words, Swords and Insomniac Beauties, essay on the 1001 Nights and the work of Eva Sallis, Meanjin, 1999.
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2. Other Articles

Time’s Arrow, HEAT Magazine, Issue 11, 1998.

Festivals of Grief, HEAT Magazine, Issue 10, 1998.

Living Up to Aleppo, Travel Arabia, issue 1, 2004.

From Rags to Riches: Beirut’s Green Line. Travel Arabia, issue 2, 2004.

Sluggish Countdown to War, essay published in Beirut Transit, editors Halasa and Khalaf, Al Saqi Books, London (essay also appeared in Australian Book Review ABR, Melbourne, May 2003 and TANK magazine, London, May 2004).

Mutilation Street: On Legs, Teeth and Foreign Tongues, essay on migration, Meanjin, Melbourne 2001, issue 1 (Essay also appeared in Anthology of Arab-Australian Writing, editor Ghassan Hage, University of Melbourne Press, 2002).