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 sanctions
The sanctions force Iranians to suspend their struggle against their abusive father, fearing that the interfering...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe colonial roots of Trump’s discourse on Iran
The colonial image of Persians as hypocritical and unreliable is so deeply entrenched in western imagination, that...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaVicariously offended: the Dawkins controversy and the absence of Muslim voices
The only way to have a leverage in current debates around Islam is to have many strong and effective voices, to the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTale of a stillborn migration
Some stories are not dramatic enough to be widely reported by the media. Yet, like other cases of flagrant...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe ubiquitous, ineffective laughter
How 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 Trump
Donald Trump is not an aberration. He is the extreme manifestation of an existing foreign policy doctrine - the...