Amir Ahmadi Arian is an Iranian novelist and journalist, the author of two critically acclaimed novels and a book of nonfiction in Farsi, short stories and essays in English. He holds a PhD in comparative literature from The University of Queensland, Australia. He currently teaches literature and creative writing at City College, New York.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaA family under attack: Iranian exiles and the economic sanctionsThe sanctions force Iranians to suspend their struggle against their abusive father, fearing that the interfering strangers would manipulate their demands and grievances.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe colonial roots of Trump’s discourse on IranThe colonial image of Persians as hypocritical and unreliable is so deeply entrenched in western imagination, that it affects policymaking on the highest levels.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaVicariously offended: the Dawkins controversy and the absence of Muslim voicesThe only way to have a leverage in current debates around Islam is to have many strong and effective voices, to the extent that Muslim voices become indispensable.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTale of a stillborn migrationSome stories are not dramatic enough to be widely reported by the media. Yet, like other cases of flagrant injustice, they are worth being told. This is one of them.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe ubiquitous, ineffective laughterHow did political satire shows sap the power of laughter under Trump and are these shows a form of laughtivism?
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe ‘mafia principle’ and godfather TrumpDonald Trump is not an aberration. He is the extreme manifestation of an existing foreign policy doctrine - the ‘mafia principle’ – and he is determined to release the whole potential of its violent core.