Scholarly Writing / Essays / Poetry
Scholarly Writing
- Scholarly Writing: “Returning Home: Iranian-American Women’s Memoirs and Reflective Nostalgia”, New York: Routledge, 2015
- Special Issue of Iranian Studies – “Iranian Diaspora Studies”, Jan 2013
- Special Issue of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, 2011
- “Reflections on Literature after the 1979 Revolution in Iran and in the Diaspora”, Fall 2009
http://reborn-babies-dolls.com/tag/reborn-babies-dolls/ “Moving from the Margin toward the Center: Some Thoughts on the Emerging Field of Iranian Diaspora Studies.” insensibly Mashriq & Mahjar 5, no. 2, 2018. c14dd7e85ab3994e09a85ae41598ac9e
Essays
- “In Praise of Big Noses” in Global Beauty, Local Bodies, 2013
- “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 Iranian Cousin and I Try to Have Hope”, New America Media, 2009
- “Writing from a Complex Ethnic Identity” in Multicultural Literature in the United States Today, United States of America Embassy, 2009
- “Claiming the Rubble: Artists and Wildlife Thrive on the Albany Bulb” Bay Nature Magazine, July 2002