2026

• Memoir Essay: My Mother's Voice: Messages from Tehran — Published in LitHub 

• Civic Nonfiction Essay: From the World Cup to War: I Learned That Iran Is More Than the Islamic Republic — Published in Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN MENA)

• Civic Nonfiction Essay: Iran Without Me — Published in Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN MENA)

• Nonfiction Contest Prize: NAR Editors' Winners: 2026 Terry Tempest Williams Creative Nonfiction Prize — Runner-Up for "The Language of the Enemy" in the North American Review

• Translation Featured: Excerpts from Sleeping in the Courtyard, edited by Holly Mason Badra

• Academic Seminar: Collage and Fragmented Narratives as a Form of Resistance in Memoir Writing by Shohreh Laici — Hosted by the University of Rochester 

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  2025

• Academic Seminar: Memories of a War-Torn Tehran: On War, Sanctions, and Iranian Lives by Shohreh Laici, hosted by the University of Rochester Humanities Center

• Featured Reading: Henar Press Virtual Book Launch: Sleeping in the Courtyard — Featured translator reading two poems by Iranian-Kurdish poet Nahid Arjouni, discussing the legacy of translating experimental poetry from within Iran.

• Academic Workshop: Philosophy of Journalism Workshop, University of Rochester, Fall 2025

• Academic Fellowship: Scholar in Exile Residency (2025–2027) — Awarded by the University of Rochester

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  2024

• Civic Nonfiction Essay: On Yahia Lababidi's Palestine Wail and the Poetry of Free Expression — Published in DAWN

• Literary Interview: Born in Tehran: A Conversation with Porochista Khakpour — Published in World Literature Today

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  2020

• Literary Review: In Exile: A Review of The Ungrateful Refugee—What Immigrants Never Tell You by Dina Nayeri — Published in the Michigan Quarterly Review

• Literary Feature: More on The Ungrateful Refugee — Featured by Institute for Ideas and Imagination at Columbia University

 

  2018 – 2019

• Postcolonial Cultural Essay (2019): Negar Djavadi's Disoriental — Published in The Brooklyn Rail

• Postcolonial Cultural Commentary Essay (2019): My Roots Were Somewhere With You — Published in The Brooklyn Rail

• Political Cultural Essay (2019): The Patriots: On Reading Becoming in Tehran — Published in World Literature Today

• Comparative Cultural Essay (2018): Losing My Grandma and Finding the Words for It in 'The Sandbox' — Published in The Millions

• Comparative Cultural Essay (2018): Trout Fishing in Tehran — Published in World Literature Today

• Literary Criticism Essay (2018): On Reading Moon Brow, A Burnt Generation — Published  in Quarterly Conversation

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 Translations (2017-2019)

 

• Translation: Kitchen God — Featured on Poetry Daily

• Translation: The Absurd Architecture of Modern Tehran — Published in STATOR

• Translation: Aba Abedin Poems (14-15) — Published in STATOR

• Translation: Sneak Peek—The Women of Two Lines 29 — Published in Two Lines (Center for the Art of Translation)

 

• Translation: Issue 27 Featured Work — Published in Asheville Poetry Review

• Translation: Ezra Journal Featured Volume 12, Number 3 — Published in Ezra: An Online Journal of Translation