[13] In the US, Montecore was translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles and published by Knopf and the New York Times described the novel as "funny, ambitious and inventive.

[16] Khemiri's fourth novel, Allt jag inte minns (Everything I Don't Remember) was published in 2015.

[18] Joyce Carol Oates chose it as one of her three favourite books of 2016, calling it "enigmatic" in the Times Literary Supplement.

[28] Apatiska för nybörjare (Apathy for Beginners), Khemiri's fourth play, premiered at the big stage of Folkteatern in Gothenburg in 2011 and has been performed in Italy, Norway and Germany.

[30] In 2013 Khemiri adapted the novel Jag ringer mina bröder (I Call My Brothers) into a play.

[32] Khemiri's sixth play, ≈ [ungefär lika med] (≈[Almost Equal To]) premiered at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in 2014.

[34][35] Eld (Fire) is Khemiri's latest play, it opened on the big stage at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in 2022, directed by German director Antú Romero Nunes.

Texts from three participants of the workshop were published in Swedish by Aftonbladet,[38][39][40] Norwegian by Klassekampen and English by the literary journal Asymptote.

[41] In 2013, Khemiri wrote an open letter to Sweden's Minister of Justice Beatrice Ask in response to a controversial police program, REVA.

The letter, titled "Dear Beatrice Ask", started a debate about discrimination and racial profiling in Sweden.

Originally published in Dagens Nyheter,[42] the letter became a social media phenomenon, with more than 150,000 shares on Facebook (summer 2014)[42] and more than half a million clicks on the article online.

[47] In 2017, Khemiri's short story "Så som du hade berättat det för mig (ungefär) om vi hade lärt känna varandra innan du dog" ("As You Would Have Told It to Me (Sort Of) If We Had Known Each Other Before You Died") was published by the New Yorker.