He is co-editor of The Edward Said Reader (Vintage, 2002),[3] editor of Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Israeli/Palestine Conflict (first published by OR Books, trade edition by Haymarket Books, 2010) and has published academic essays in publications including Transition, Interventions, the Yale Journal of Criticism,[4] Amerasia, Arab Studies Quarterly, and the Journal of Asian American Studies.

[7] His essay "Disco Inferno", originally published in The Nation, was included in the collection "Best Music Writing 2006".

From 2003 to 2006, he served on the National Council of the American Studies Association, and he was also an editor for Middle East Report.

It is the story of how young Arab and Muslim Americans are forging lives for themselves in a country that often mistakes them for the enemy.

The essays expose how contemporary politics, movies, novels, media experts and more have together produced a culture of fear and suspicion that not only willfully forgets the Muslim-American past, but also threatens all of our civil liberties in the present.