Zaina Arafat

Biography

Zaina Arafat is a Palestinian American writer. Her essays and stories have appeared in Granta, Iowa Review, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, the Christian Science Monitor, VICE, BuzzFeed, and NPR. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and an MA from Columbia University. 

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PHOTOGRAPHY / Summer 2017

Power Jam

Photography by Eman Helal ,  Essay by Zaina Arafat

Nouran Elkabbany’s family wasn’t thrilled about the idea of her joining a roller derby team. They worried about all the ways she might damage her body. 

Photo by Eman Helal.