Nonfiction

Ayoub, Shawna. “Beyond a Book Review.” Series, Center for Creative Writing Blog. 2023-2024.

Ayoub, Shawna. Queer Brown Femme Seeking Queer Parent Friends. Verywell Mind. 2022.

Ainslie, Shawna Ayoub. One of Us. Survivor Lit. 2021.

Ainslie, Shawna Ayoub. An Open Letter to My Friends and Family: I Am Surviving. HuffPost, 2017. (translated into German, French, Spanish, and Italian)

Ainslie, Shawna Ayoub. Passing on Privilege. Raising Mothers, 2016.

Ainslie, Shawna Ayoub. The Letter No One Wrote My Mother. The Manifest-Station, 2015.

Ainslie, Shawna Ayoub. Parenting, Fear and Denial of Birthright. Raising Mothers, 2015.

Ainslie, Shawna Ayoub. “Wishing for Home in Lebanon.” [wherever], 2014.

Ainslie, Shawna Ayoub. Why I Passed for White. Medium: The Archipelago, 2014.

Fiction

Ainslie, Shawna Ayoub. “Right Kind of Woman.” Art Saves Lives International, 2015.

Ayoub, S.M. “The Phone Call from Kayfoun.” ArabComment, 2008.

Poetry

Ainslie, Shawna Ayoub. “For My Darker Sister.” Exit 7, Spring 2017, 18-22.

Ainslie, Shawna Ayoub. “Presidents Versus Terrorists.” Exit 7, Spring 2017, 16-17.

Ainslie, Shawna Ayoub. “Fluid” Sacred and Subversive, 2017.

Ayoub, Shawna. “Jido” The Oxford Review, Spring 2000.