2019
"The Raptors Win, and Canada Learns to Swagger," New York Times, June 14, 2019.
"The Real Meaning of the Toronto Raptors' Run to the NBA Finals," The Globe and Mail, May 30, 2019.
"Masculine Chaos," Harper's, May 3, 2019
Letter: The Trouble With Staying Silent on Ideological Extremism, The Atlantic, April 4, 2019.
"Our Brother, Our Executioner," New York Times, March 16, 2019.
"America Through Nazi Eyes," Dissent, January 7, 2019.
2018
"How to Read a Book (and the top 10 Books I Read in 2018)," Medium, December 30, 2018.
"A Muslim Christmas Carol," The Globe and Mail, December 21, 2018.
"Blighted by Empire: What the British Did to India," Los Angeles Review of Books, September 1, 2018.
"Aziz Ansari and Me," New Republic, January 19, 2018.
2017
"What I Learned About Democracy in 2017," The Walrus, December 31, 2017.
"The Year of Reading Dangerously (And the Top 10 Books I read in 2017)," Medium, December 30, 2017.
"My President Was an Islamophobe," The New Republic, December 22, 2017.
"I Am Not a 'Paki,' Not a Terrorist. I Am Nobody but Myself," New York Times Sunday Review, June 25, 2017.
"Can the United Nations Do Anything to Stop the Slaughter in Syria?" The Atlantic, April 12, 2017.
"Donald Trump and Syria: How We Got Here and What Comes Next," Huffington Post, April 7, 2017.
"I Was Detained by Customs Agents for Two Hours When I Tried to Enter Donald Trump's America," Toronto Life, March 24, 2017.
"Dear Kellie Leitch: If You Think Immigrants Don't 'Work Hard,' You Haven't Met My Family," Huffington Post, March 16, 2017.
"What ISIS Really Is," The New Republic, January 5, 2017.
2016
"What Reading Means to Me," Medium, December 29, 2016.
"Donald Trump and 'America First': Where U.S. Foreign Policy Went Wrong," Huffington Post, December 9, 2016.
"Trumpism From the Standpoint of its Victims," Huffington Post, November 16, 2016.
"What President Donald Trump Means for Muslims," The New Republic, November 10, 2016.
“A Q&A with Donald Trump’s favorite Muslim,” The New Republic, October 6, 2016.
“Jihad as a Psychological State,” The New Republic, September 30, 2016.
“Henry Kissinger and the Terrorism on Embassy Row,” Huffington Post, September 21, 2016.
“Brexit wasn’t about Economics. It was about Racial Hatred,” Huffington Post, July 22, 2016.
“Orlando Has Exposed Islam’s Huge Homophobia Problem,” The New Republic, June 15, 2016.
“Free Speech and Fanatics: A Final Rejoinder to Sam Harris,” Huffington Post, March 10, 2016.
“My Secret Debate with Sam Harris: A revealing 4-hour dialogue on Islam, racism, & free-speech hypocrisy,” Salon, March 7, 2016.
“Dear Obama: Assad is the Problem,” Foreign Policy, January 26, 2016.
2015
“Sam Harris’ Detestable Crusade,” Salon, December 27, 2015.
Interview with The Clarion Project on Saudi Arabia, foreign policy, and Islam.
"Trudeau is discriminating against single, straight, male refugees. Why is he afraid?" The Globe and Mail, November 25, 2015.
"The Soul of a Jihadist," The New Republic, November 17, 2015.
"Unpaid Interns of the World, Unite!" Huffington Post, October 23, 2015.
"Wahhabism, Saudi Arabia, and Their Gift to Yale," Huffington Post, September 14, 2015.
"Now is the Time for Blame: Alan Kurdi and the Myth of a "Generous" Canada, Huffington Post, September 7, 2015.
"How Barack Obama Betrayed the Syrian People," Al Jazeera English, August 22, 2015.
“What Novels Teach Us About Life,” Huffington Post, July 24, 2015.
“We Are All to Blame for Omar Khadr’s Mistreatment,” Toronto Star, May 20, 2015.
“America’s Vicious Cycle of Murder,” Salon, May 18, 2015.
"In Bangladesh, as in France, Free Speech has Become Deadly," The Globe and Mail, May 15, 2015.
"The West is Failing Badly in Response to Genocide," Toronto Star, May 2, 2015.
"Canada is a rogue state on climate change," Toronto Star, April 20, 2015.
"The Ivy League's Favorite War Criminal," Salon, April 17, 2015.
"Banning the Niqab Harms an Open Society. So Does Wearing it," The Globe and Mail, March 16, 2015.
"How the NDP, Liberals Gave Harper a Free Pass on Foreign Policy," The Globe and Mail, Feb. 23, 2015.
"Are France's Shocking Cartoons Hurtful or Beneficial to Minorities?" The Globe and Mail, January 21, 2015.
"Editors Who Censor Charlie Hebdo Cartoons Are Stereotyping All Muslims as Extremists," The New Republic, January 11, 2015.
2014
“What Pakistan Must Do To Rid Itself of Violent Extremism,” The New Republic, December 17, 2014.
“The System Didn’t Fail Eric Garner. It Worked How a Racist System is Supposed to,” Huffington Post, December 10, 2014.
“Don’t Blame Canada for Home-Grown Terror. Blame the Terrorists,” The Globe and Mail, November 3, 2014.
“Islamic State is a Far Larger Problem for the Muslim World,” The Globe and Mail, September 24, 2014.
“The West Must Confront the Islamic State — and Canada Can Help,” The Globe and Mail, August 12, 2014.
“Writers, Violence, and Truth,” Medium, August 12, 2014.
“Gaza Shows Netanyahu Never Wanted a Two-State Solution,” The Globe and Mail, July 21, 2014.
“The World Cup Does Not Bring People Together. It Tears Them Apart,” Washington Post, June 16, 2014.
“The ISI’s Great Game in Afghanistan,” The Diplomat, June 8, 2014.
“Hatred of Women, Not Islam, Fuels Pakistan’s Honour Killings,” The Globe and Mail, May 30, 2014.
“With Modi Poised for Victory, Can Indians Expect an Economic Miracle?” The Globe and Mail, May 15, 2014
“As U.S. pulls back, Canada continues the War on Drugs,” The Globe and Mail, April 4, 2014.
"'I’m Proud to Say I’m a Liberal’: How Conservatives Vulgarized a Term — and Why the Left Must Reclaim It,” Salon, March 8, 2014.
“The Mutilation of Ukraine,” National Post, March 7, 2014
“Book Banning Brings India’s Hindu Extremism into Plain View,” The Globe and Mail, February 21, 2014
“A New Axis of Terror,” National Post, February 12, 2014
“Why Stephen Harper Owes Canadian Muslims an Apology,” The Globe and Mail, February 5, 2014
“Qatar’s Showcase of Shame,” The New York Times, January 5, 2014
2013
“The Case Against India’s Diplomat,” The Diplomat, December 27, 2013
“Tibet’s Militarization Rings a Loud Bell Across Asia,” The Globe and Mail, November 28, 2013
‘Where Have All the Public Thinkers Gone? Away From Universities,” The Globe and Mail, October 21, 2013
“The Carbon Tax: An Idea Whose Time Has Come,” Woodrow Wilson Center, September 25, 2013
“For the West, Only Bad Choices in Syria,” The Globe and Mail, August 30, 2013
“It’s Pro-West and Booming, So Why is Canada Ignoring Iraqi Kurdistan?” The Globe and Mail, July 30, 2013
“Harper is Right on Syria. The West Should Not Intervene,” The Globe and Mail, June 28, 2013
“Cyprus: Still Hostage to History,” Project Syndicate, June 4, 2013
“Imran Khan and Pakistan’s Future,” The Express Tribune/International NYT, May 20, 2013
“Canada Has Lost Its Way on Foreign Policy,” Project Syndicate, April 22, 2013
“Motioning for a More Global Queen’s,” Queen’s Journal, March 22, 2013
“The Obama Doctrine’s Second Term,” Project Syndicate, February 5, 2013
“Pakistan’s Existential Crisis,” OpenDemocracy, January 5, 2013.
2012
"China’s Long, Dangerous Twenty-First Century,” iPolitics, November 5, 2012
“US-Canada Relations at 200: Symbiosis for the 21st Century,” Woodrow Wilson Center, August, 22, 2012.
“Do-Gooder Drones,” Project Syndicate, August 3, 2012
"The Raptors Win, and Canada Learns to Swagger," New York Times, June 14, 2019.
"The Real Meaning of the Toronto Raptors' Run to the NBA Finals," The Globe and Mail, May 30, 2019.
"Masculine Chaos," Harper's, May 3, 2019
Letter: The Trouble With Staying Silent on Ideological Extremism, The Atlantic, April 4, 2019.
"Our Brother, Our Executioner," New York Times, March 16, 2019.
"America Through Nazi Eyes," Dissent, January 7, 2019.
2018
"How to Read a Book (and the top 10 Books I Read in 2018)," Medium, December 30, 2018.
"A Muslim Christmas Carol," The Globe and Mail, December 21, 2018.
"Blighted by Empire: What the British Did to India," Los Angeles Review of Books, September 1, 2018.
"Aziz Ansari and Me," New Republic, January 19, 2018.
2017
"What I Learned About Democracy in 2017," The Walrus, December 31, 2017.
"The Year of Reading Dangerously (And the Top 10 Books I read in 2017)," Medium, December 30, 2017.
"My President Was an Islamophobe," The New Republic, December 22, 2017.
"I Am Not a 'Paki,' Not a Terrorist. I Am Nobody but Myself," New York Times Sunday Review, June 25, 2017.
"Can the United Nations Do Anything to Stop the Slaughter in Syria?" The Atlantic, April 12, 2017.
"Donald Trump and Syria: How We Got Here and What Comes Next," Huffington Post, April 7, 2017.
"I Was Detained by Customs Agents for Two Hours When I Tried to Enter Donald Trump's America," Toronto Life, March 24, 2017.
"Dear Kellie Leitch: If You Think Immigrants Don't 'Work Hard,' You Haven't Met My Family," Huffington Post, March 16, 2017.
"What ISIS Really Is," The New Republic, January 5, 2017.
2016
"What Reading Means to Me," Medium, December 29, 2016.
"Donald Trump and 'America First': Where U.S. Foreign Policy Went Wrong," Huffington Post, December 9, 2016.
"Trumpism From the Standpoint of its Victims," Huffington Post, November 16, 2016.
"What President Donald Trump Means for Muslims," The New Republic, November 10, 2016.
“A Q&A with Donald Trump’s favorite Muslim,” The New Republic, October 6, 2016.
“Jihad as a Psychological State,” The New Republic, September 30, 2016.
“Henry Kissinger and the Terrorism on Embassy Row,” Huffington Post, September 21, 2016.
“Brexit wasn’t about Economics. It was about Racial Hatred,” Huffington Post, July 22, 2016.
“Orlando Has Exposed Islam’s Huge Homophobia Problem,” The New Republic, June 15, 2016.
“Free Speech and Fanatics: A Final Rejoinder to Sam Harris,” Huffington Post, March 10, 2016.
“My Secret Debate with Sam Harris: A revealing 4-hour dialogue on Islam, racism, & free-speech hypocrisy,” Salon, March 7, 2016.
“Dear Obama: Assad is the Problem,” Foreign Policy, January 26, 2016.
2015
“Sam Harris’ Detestable Crusade,” Salon, December 27, 2015.
Interview with The Clarion Project on Saudi Arabia, foreign policy, and Islam.
"Trudeau is discriminating against single, straight, male refugees. Why is he afraid?" The Globe and Mail, November 25, 2015.
"The Soul of a Jihadist," The New Republic, November 17, 2015.
"Unpaid Interns of the World, Unite!" Huffington Post, October 23, 2015.
"Wahhabism, Saudi Arabia, and Their Gift to Yale," Huffington Post, September 14, 2015.
"Now is the Time for Blame: Alan Kurdi and the Myth of a "Generous" Canada, Huffington Post, September 7, 2015.
"How Barack Obama Betrayed the Syrian People," Al Jazeera English, August 22, 2015.
“What Novels Teach Us About Life,” Huffington Post, July 24, 2015.
“We Are All to Blame for Omar Khadr’s Mistreatment,” Toronto Star, May 20, 2015.
“America’s Vicious Cycle of Murder,” Salon, May 18, 2015.
"In Bangladesh, as in France, Free Speech has Become Deadly," The Globe and Mail, May 15, 2015.
"The West is Failing Badly in Response to Genocide," Toronto Star, May 2, 2015.
"Canada is a rogue state on climate change," Toronto Star, April 20, 2015.
"The Ivy League's Favorite War Criminal," Salon, April 17, 2015.
"Banning the Niqab Harms an Open Society. So Does Wearing it," The Globe and Mail, March 16, 2015.
"How the NDP, Liberals Gave Harper a Free Pass on Foreign Policy," The Globe and Mail, Feb. 23, 2015.
"Are France's Shocking Cartoons Hurtful or Beneficial to Minorities?" The Globe and Mail, January 21, 2015.
"Editors Who Censor Charlie Hebdo Cartoons Are Stereotyping All Muslims as Extremists," The New Republic, January 11, 2015.
2014
“What Pakistan Must Do To Rid Itself of Violent Extremism,” The New Republic, December 17, 2014.
“The System Didn’t Fail Eric Garner. It Worked How a Racist System is Supposed to,” Huffington Post, December 10, 2014.
“Don’t Blame Canada for Home-Grown Terror. Blame the Terrorists,” The Globe and Mail, November 3, 2014.
“Islamic State is a Far Larger Problem for the Muslim World,” The Globe and Mail, September 24, 2014.
“The West Must Confront the Islamic State — and Canada Can Help,” The Globe and Mail, August 12, 2014.
“Writers, Violence, and Truth,” Medium, August 12, 2014.
“Gaza Shows Netanyahu Never Wanted a Two-State Solution,” The Globe and Mail, July 21, 2014.
“The World Cup Does Not Bring People Together. It Tears Them Apart,” Washington Post, June 16, 2014.
“The ISI’s Great Game in Afghanistan,” The Diplomat, June 8, 2014.
“Hatred of Women, Not Islam, Fuels Pakistan’s Honour Killings,” The Globe and Mail, May 30, 2014.
“With Modi Poised for Victory, Can Indians Expect an Economic Miracle?” The Globe and Mail, May 15, 2014
“As U.S. pulls back, Canada continues the War on Drugs,” The Globe and Mail, April 4, 2014.
"'I’m Proud to Say I’m a Liberal’: How Conservatives Vulgarized a Term — and Why the Left Must Reclaim It,” Salon, March 8, 2014.
“The Mutilation of Ukraine,” National Post, March 7, 2014
“Book Banning Brings India’s Hindu Extremism into Plain View,” The Globe and Mail, February 21, 2014
“A New Axis of Terror,” National Post, February 12, 2014
“Why Stephen Harper Owes Canadian Muslims an Apology,” The Globe and Mail, February 5, 2014
“Qatar’s Showcase of Shame,” The New York Times, January 5, 2014
2013
“The Case Against India’s Diplomat,” The Diplomat, December 27, 2013
“Tibet’s Militarization Rings a Loud Bell Across Asia,” The Globe and Mail, November 28, 2013
‘Where Have All the Public Thinkers Gone? Away From Universities,” The Globe and Mail, October 21, 2013
“The Carbon Tax: An Idea Whose Time Has Come,” Woodrow Wilson Center, September 25, 2013
“For the West, Only Bad Choices in Syria,” The Globe and Mail, August 30, 2013
“It’s Pro-West and Booming, So Why is Canada Ignoring Iraqi Kurdistan?” The Globe and Mail, July 30, 2013
“Harper is Right on Syria. The West Should Not Intervene,” The Globe and Mail, June 28, 2013
“Cyprus: Still Hostage to History,” Project Syndicate, June 4, 2013
“Imran Khan and Pakistan’s Future,” The Express Tribune/International NYT, May 20, 2013
“Canada Has Lost Its Way on Foreign Policy,” Project Syndicate, April 22, 2013
“Motioning for a More Global Queen’s,” Queen’s Journal, March 22, 2013
“The Obama Doctrine’s Second Term,” Project Syndicate, February 5, 2013
“Pakistan’s Existential Crisis,” OpenDemocracy, January 5, 2013.
2012
"China’s Long, Dangerous Twenty-First Century,” iPolitics, November 5, 2012
“US-Canada Relations at 200: Symbiosis for the 21st Century,” Woodrow Wilson Center, August, 22, 2012.
“Do-Gooder Drones,” Project Syndicate, August 3, 2012