Short Stories

The Rumpus - The Tangible Darkness

Michigan Quarterly Review - Shafaq Park

Witness Magazine - The War Museum

Massachusetts Review - The Vermin

Essays

London Review of Books - Rushdie, Khomeini, and Me

Harper’s Magazine - Waiting For The Lights

The Baffler - Without Them

Alexander Features - The Passions of Faraj Sarkohi

The Bombay Review - The Plague Incarnate

New York Review of Books - Soleimani in the Propaganda Art of Iran

Lithub - Navigating Literary Censorship in Iran

Electric Literature - The Slow, Aimless Novel

Affidavit - In Solitary

Paris Review - Staring at a Digital Blackhole

Paris Review - One Word: Avareh

Guernica - Fragments From a War-torn Childhood

Words Without Borders - Gems Under Debris

Lithub - A Year Among the Boat People, My People

Asymptote - A Brief History of A Decline

Journalism

The Nation - When The Taliban Returned

The Newsroom (with Behrouz Boochani) - Iran: A Revolution In The Making

The New York Times (with Rahman Bouzari) - What Sanctions Mean to Iranians

Al Jazeera - Iran’s Government and the State of Khuzestan

London Review of Books - Trump’s Rhetorical Tradition

The New York Times - Why Iran Is Protesting

The Guardian - Donald Trump and the Novelists

Open Democracy - The Colonial Roots of Trump’s Discourse On Iran

Open Democracy - The Curse of Apocalyptic Rhetoric