Writings

Scars from home: social geography, familial relations, and patriarchy

The Philosophy of Sexual Violence, edited by Georgi Gardiner and Micol Bez, Routledge, 2025.

What does it mean to be an American? American Ignorance and Social Imagination of Citizenship

in Hypatia, 2023:1-19. doi:10.1017/hyp.2023.81

The Earth King, ignorance and responsibility

in Avatar: The Last Airbender and Philosophy: Wisdom from Aang to Zuko, edited by Johan De Smedt and Helen De Cruz, Wiley-Blackwell, 2022 

“Karachi, "First Worlds," And The Spaces in Between” 

Co-written with Sana Rizvi. In A Love Letter to This Bridge Called My Back, edited by Wilson, Acuff, Kraehe, University of Arizona Press. 2022

Navigating the #MeToo Terrain in an Islamophobic Environment

Social Philosophy Today, Volume 37, 2021, p. 57–74

Philosophy, Liberation, and Other Roads Less Travelled: Being Asian in Philosophy

What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher of Asian Descent?, APA Newsletter on Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies, Volume 20, number 1, Fall 2020

I know what happened to me: The Epistemic Harms of Microaggression

in Microaggression and Philosophy. Edited by Lauren Freeman and Jeanine Weekes Schroer, Routledge, 163-183,  2020

On the Road to Losing Ourselves - Religion Based Immigration Tests

in Ethics, Left and Right: The Moral Issues That Divide Us. edited by Bob Fischer, Oxford University Press,  2019. pg. 216-232.

Physician Ethics: How Billing Relates to Patient Care

Journal of Hospital Ethics, Vol 5 No 3: Systems, Winter 2019

On the Edge of Knowing: Microaggression and Epistemic Uncertainty as a Woman of Color

 in Surviving Sexism in Academia: Feminist Strategies for Leadership, edited by Kirsti Cole and Holly Hassel, Routledge 2017, p. 147-154

Contested Terrains of Women of Color and Third World Women

Co-authored by Kristie Dotson, Ranjoo Seodu Herr, Serene J. Khader and Stella Nyanzi. Musings, Hypatia, Volume 33, Issue 3, Summer 2017, p. 731–742

Striving for God’s Attention: Gendered Spaces and Piety

Hypatia, Vol. 31, Issue 3, 2016, p. 605-619

Can Doctors Maintain Good Character? An Examination of Physician Lives 

Journal of Medical Humanities, 2016, p.1-15 

Liberalism and the Muslim-American Predicament

Social Theory and Practice, vol. 40, no. 4, 2014, p.591-608

Muslim-American Scripts 

Hypatia, Volume 28, Issue 2, 2013, p.341–359

Presence of Mind

Social Philosophy Today, Volume 28, 2012, p. 131-146

Who Counts as a Muslim? Identity, Multiplicity and Politics

Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Volume 31, Issue 3, 2011, p. 339-353

An Examination of the Ethics of Submissiveness

Journal of Islamic Philosophy, Volume 4, 2008, p. 3–21.