Essays
Literature’s Porous Borders
Literary Hub; November 7, 2023
https://lithub.com/literatures-porous-borders-where-fiction-ends-and-reality-begins/
Soccer Diplomacy Comes to the Middle East
The Atlantic; October 7, 2023
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/10/saudi-arabia-iran-soccer-diplomacy/675558/
The Contemporary Literary Scene in Iran
The Markaz Review; October 1, 2023
https://themarkaz.org/the-contemporary-literary-scene-in-iran/
How to be a Man in Iran
The Atlantic; August 8, 2023
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/08/morality-police-iran-women/674927/
Suspended States
Guernica Magazine; August 7, 2022
https://www.guernicamag.com/the-kind-american/
Inside the Afghan Resistance
Guernica Magazine; May 24, 2022
https://www.guernicamag.com/inside-the-afghan-resistance/
L.A’s Theatre Visionary
The Markaz Review; February 15, 2022
https://themarkaz.org/reza-abdoh-l-a-s-theatre-visionary/
Your Day and Your Life are One and the Same
Michigan Quarterly Review; April 13, 2020
https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2020/04/dispatches-new-york-iran/
Grief, Fear and Rage in Tehran
New York Times; January 17, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/opinion/iran-protests.html
War Has a Life of its Own
Michigan Quarterly Review, September 2019
Distress and Defiance in Tehran
New York Times; June 21, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/21/opinion/sunday/iran-crisis.html
Lies, Fame, Memory, Illness And the Theater of Reza Abdoh
Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring 2019
https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2019/07/lies-fame-memory-illness-and-the-theater-of-reza-abdoh/
The Cleric and I
Guernica Magazine; April 2018
https://www.guernicamag.com/the-cleric-and-i/
Hunger
Words Without Borders; Fall 2017
https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2017-11/hunger-salar-abdoh/
The Road to Tel Afar
Guernica Magazine; May 2017
https://www.guernicamag.com/the-road-to-tel-afar/
The Avenue of Faiths
Guernica Magazine: June 2015
https://www.guernicamag.com/the-avenue-of-faiths/
Gilad, My Enemy
Tablet; April, 2015
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/gilad-my-enemy
The Seismic City (Tehran Noir)
Akashic Press; Fall 2014
https://www.akashicbooks.com/salar-abdohs-introduction-to-tehran-noir/
A Hanging at The House of Artists in Tehran
Guernica Magazine; Spring 2013
https://www.guernicamag.com/salar-abdoh-a-hanging-at-the-house-of-artists/