As we promised, here is the second installment of our three part blog special on reactions to President's Obama address in Cairo. Zaina Arafat, a guest on our program today, shares her thoughts on the ...

Arafat lives in Brooklyn and is currently working on her first collection of essays At first, its knowing tone can seem a little too cynical, the narrator’s mistakes a little too predictable, but this ...

"Anytime I heard of another Arab girl's engagement, it immediately snapped me out of my gayness." Arab. Bisexual. Migrant. Anorexic. The list goes on and on. The main character in Zaina Arafat's You ...