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My journey on this glorious planet Earth, this shifting, spinning piece of rock in the midst of a divine universe, is coming back to myself, to accept myself as I am and to go back to the source of my origin. I didn't just accept who I was so what I am now is more powerful and more real and earned: I am a full-blooded Palestinian Muslim woman with an indelible romantic streak, no matter what happens, and someone who is always willing to learn and be curious about the world, while opening my heart to Allah a
I have been writing as a profession for almost 30 years. I was a journalist, a technical writer, a professor of writing and technical communications. My dream, however, has always been to be a fiction writer and a poet and I am happy to say that next October, my first novel will be published. It is about being a Palestinian-American Muslim female artist in the United States, struggling with culture, religion, and family expectations. I know it will resonate with many, even those who are not from my backgrou
I am working on a second novel now, called Desideratum, about a robot who achieves complete empathy and a soul. It is an exploration of what it is to be human and what it means to be divine.