Publications

Books

• The Marsh Birds Allen&Unwin 2005
  
• Fire Fire Allen&Unwin 2004
  
• Mahjar Allen&Unwin 2003
  
• The City of Sealions Allen&Unwin, 2002
  
• Sheherazade Through the Looking Glass: The Metamorphosis of the 1001 Nights. Studies in Arabic Literature Series. Curzon, 1999
  
• Hiam Allen & Unwin, 1998
  

Anthologies (edited)

• With Jenni Devereaux, Heather Millar and Sonja Dechian. No Place Like Home: Australian Stories. Wakefield Press 2005
  
• With Heather Millar and Sonja Dechian. Dark Dreams: Australian Refugee Stories. Wakefield Press 2004
  
• With Gabrielle Artini, Rebekah Clarkson, Kerrie Harrison, Lisa Jedynak, Samantha Schulz. Forked Tongues. Wakefield Press, 2002
  
• With Brenda Glover, Kim Mann, Scott Hopkins. Painted Words. Wakefield Press 1999
  

Short stories

• ‘Munira’s Bad Day Out’. Heat 9, 1998
  
• ‘Summer Goes North’. Elle. January 1999
  
• ‘My Grandmother and the Tiger’. Joussour. August 1999
  
• ‘The Deferred Death of Fuad’. Joussour. August 1999
  
• ‘Zeen’s Way’. Joussour. August 1999
  
• 'The Kangaroo' Heat series 2, 2001
  
• 'This Strange Grief' Island87 2001
  
• ‘The Kursk’ Gas and Air, Bloomsbury, 2002
  
• ’Flight’ Heat series 2, 2002
  
• ‘Dirige Dominus Deus Meus’ Southerly, Feb 2003
  
• ‘A Ride in a Taxi’ Griffith Review, September 2003
  
• ‘L’Envol’ La Nouvelle Revue Française July 2003
  
• ‘Music’ Secret Lives: 34 Modern Australian Summer Short Stories 2003
  
• ‘Lions’ Sunset: Penguin Australian Summer Short Stories 2004
  
• ’The Hafli’ Behind the Front Fence: 30 Modern Australian Short Stories 2005
  
• ‘Fox Unpopuli’ Best Australian Short Stories 2006; Bulletin, December 2005
  
• ‘Al-Usoud in Min Ustralia wujouh adabiya mu'asira, Nejmeh Habib, Beirut: al-Dar al-arabiya lil-uloum 2006 and al-Karmel July 2005
  
  Major articles and chapters
  
  • 'Sheherazade/Shahrazâd: rereading the Frame Tale of the 1001 Nights' Journal of Arabic and Middle Eastern Literatures, 1.2 (1998)
    
  • ‘Research Fiction’ TEXT online Journal October 1999.
    
  • ‘Playing on the Senses: Descriptive Narration in the Thousand and One Nights’ Journal of Semitic Studies (Autumn 2000).
    
  • ‘Aftermath’ Why the War was Wrong, Text Publishing 2003
    

  
  Commissioned creative works
  

  • 'The Lover'. libretto, music by Quentin Grant, 1999
    
  • Poetry on a theme for 'Click', the Millennium Party, 2000
    
  • 'AlieNation', Music theatre libretto for Centenary of Federation, Helpmann Academy 2001
    

  
  Poetry
  

  • [How will you unbend my Bitterness] Pook 5. 2.3 (1994), Kalimat March 2000
    
  • 'Waji'a' Kalimat October 2000
    
  • 'The Lover' Westerly December 1999
    
  • 'Water' Westerly December 1999
    
  • 'Reflections' Kalimat March 2000
    

  
  Articles, book chapters, introductions and commentary
  

  • 'Australia's Dangerous Fantasy' The New York Times 17 Dec 2005; International Herald Tribune, 18 Dec 2005
    
  • 'Soul Sisters' The Australian 24 May 2006
    
  • Preface, Iron Lace: an Anthology of Poetry and Prose. University of Adelaide, 1998
    
  • ‘Manuscript Assessment’ SA Writers’ Centre Handbook for South Australian Writers, 1999; QWC News 75 June 1999: 19-21; Arts Nexus (Sept 1999)
    
  • ‘A Blaze of Talent’ Australian Bookseller & Publisher. February 1999
    
  • Chapter in QWC Writers Centre Workbook, June 2000
    
  • Chapter in Writers On Writing, Penguin 2002
    
  • ‘Love’ in HQ May-June 2002.
    
  • Short article in Kalimat 2002
    
  • Favourites Column, The Age April 2003
    
  • ‘Thanks, I’ll Keep the Medal as a Memento of Dark Times’ SMH 12 May 2003
    

  
  Other
  

  • Edited, with Heather Millar There is No Place Like Home Winning Stories 2004.
    
  • Edited, with Heather Millar AIR! Australia Is Refugees Winning Stories 2002.
    

  
  Reviews
  

  • Nada Awar Jarrar Somewhere, Home Goodreading Magazine June 2003
    
  • Heather Tyler Asylum: Voices from Behind the Razor Wire, ABR May 2003
    
  • Norma Khouri Forbidden Love SMH March 3 2003.
    
  • Raimond Gaita The Philosopher’s Dog The Age August 17 2002
    
  • Christopher Kremmer The Carpet Wars Goodreading Magazine April 2002
    
  • Gina Lennox, ed. Fire Snow and Honey: Voices from Kurdistan. Goodreading Magazine February 2002
    
  • Nikki Gemmell Love Song, ABR December 2001
    
  • Anouar ben-Malek Lovers of Algeria, Goodreading Magazine 2001
    
  • Hanan al-Shaykh Only in London W2, Goodreading Magazine 2001
    
  • Sue Gough The Nether Regions Meanjin 2001
    
  • Chandani Lokugé If the Moon Smiled and Dionne Brand At the Full and Change of the Moon SMH 13 May 2000
    
  • Roger Allen The Arabic Literary Heritage. Journal of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies 2000
    
  • Michael Meehan The Salt of Broken Tears. Radio 5UV with Cath Kenneally, August 1999
    
  • Mohammed Sharafuddin Islam and Romantic Orientalism. Journal of Semitic Studies. 44.1 1999
    
  • Wadih Sa'adeh A Secret Sky. The Sydney Morning Herald 22 November 1997
    
  • Muhsin Mahdi The Thousand and One Nights. Journal of Semitic Studies. 42.2 1997