It was followed by an anthology which she co-edited in 2012 in response to the bombing of Baghdad's historic literary district and in 2014 a collaboration with another exiled poet of a collection of renga-style poems.
[1] She is the vice president of Radius of Arab-American Writers, Inc. (RAWI),[3] and has sponsored national events annually since 2009 to bring artists together.
Contributors include Yassin Alsalman and Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Anthony Shadid;[9] Rijin Sahakian, U.S.-based Iraqi television producer and Nazik Al-Malaika as part of the 100 participants.
[12] Her most recent publication is a collaboration with a Jewish-American poet, Marilyn Hacker, written in the style of a Japanese renga, a form of alternating call and answer.
It is an interweaving of dialogue on the conflict, which explores the inability to be apathetic, as war remains in the mind as the background of even mundane daily tasks.