Selected Writings
- Poetry, Politics & Translation: American Isolation and the Middle East (Palm Press, 2003) Based on a talk sponsored by the Cornell Forum for Justice and Peace in the series Critical Perspectives on the War on Terror
- from the warring factions (Beyond Baroque, 2002), a book-length poem dedicated to the Bosnian town of Srebrenica
- Memories of Our Future: Selected Essays, 1982-1999 (City Lights, 1999)
- After Jews and Arabs: Remaking Levantine Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 1993) Chosen as one of the year's top 25 books by The Village Voice and named one of 1993's notable books by The Independent in London
- the cairo notebooks (Singing Horse Press, 1993) some of the earlier published poems
- Islanders (City Lights Publishers, 2010) ISBN 978-0-87286-506-8
- neither wit nor gold (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2011) ISBN 978-1-933254-84-5
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