Essays

Khalid

Strangers Guide

https://strangersguide.com/articles/khalid/

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

https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2019/09/war-has-a-life-of-its-own-a-review-of-nouri-al-jarrahs-a-boat-to-lesbos/

 

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/