Category Archives: Essays
“A Day that Lingers with Us Still : Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here” Essay: World Literature Today, May 2012
“My Father’s House” (pages 7-10) in Illuminated Verses: Poetries of the Islamic World, 2011
“My Father’s House” (pages 7-10) in Changzhou Illuminated Verses: Poetries of the Islamic World, 2011 copyright City Lore and Poets House
Among my father’s favorite quatrains (roba‘i) were the following: Ah, my Beloved, fill the Cup that clears To-day of past Regrets and future Fears To-morrow?—Why, To-morrow I may be Myself with Yesterday’s Sev’n Thousand Years.
“My Iranian Cousin and I Try to Have Hope”, New America Media, 2009
“My Iranian Cousin and I Try to Have Hope”
New America Media, 2009
My cousin reassures me that things will change — little by little perhaps. She also assures me that Iranians are a peaceful people. They do not want war, don’t want intervention, don’t want to destroy their country from the inside out.
“Writing from a Complex Ethnic Identity” in Multicultural Literature in the United States Today, United States of America Embassy, 2009
“Writing from a Complex Ethnic Identity” in oviparously Multicultural Literature in the United States Today
United States of America Embassy, February 9, 2009
It has taken some time for American readers to appreciate the complexities, hardships, and beauty of the Iranian immigrant experience — and the body of literature that now describes that experience. A young but flourishing literature of the Iranian Diaspora has finally taken hold.
“Claiming the Rubble: Artists and Wildlife Thrive on the Albany Bulb” Bay Nature Magazine, July 2002
“Claiming the Rubble: Artists and Wildlife Thrive on the Albany Bulb”
Bay Nature Magazine, July 2002
Bay Nature Magazine, July 2002
When you first arrive at the Albany Bulb, you have the sense of being on the edge between the urban and the wild—you can feel the strange embrace of the two, as they tug at one another.
