He published five other novels: Shadows in the memory (1997), Tale of the Harvest Night (1998), The Snow Ball (2000), The Salty Grape of Paradise (2003), and Running in Place (2019).

[needs update] His account of the 2014 Gaza conflict was published in English under the title The Drone Eats with Me: Diaries from a City Under Fire, with a foreword by Noam Chomsky.

[7] Abu Saif's diary dispatches written while visiting in Gaza during the 2023 Israel-Hamas war were published in the New York Times and Slate magazine.

It describes a mounting toll of death and destruction.... Gradually, it makes it clear that there is no safe place in the Gaza Strip.

[7] In March 2019, Palestinian Authority news organization Wafa published pictures that showed Saif, bruised and bandaged, clothed in blood-stained garments and lying on a hospital bed.