Salar Abdoh

Leaving Abdoh, Finding Chamran

Leaving Abdoh, Finding Chamran

Salar Abdoh reflects on returning to Iran, burdened by injustice and a desire to reconnect with a culture...

2 MAY, 2025 • By Salar Abdoh
The Felines that Leave Us, and the Humans that Left

The Felines that Leave Us, and the Humans that Left

An Iranian writer and translator in the heart of Tehran unexpectedly becomes a cat woman, attached to her...

1 NOVEMBER, 2024 • By Salar Abdoh
“Firefly”—a short story by Alireza Iranmehr

“Firefly”—a short story by Alireza Iranmehr

In this short story, an Iranian conscript keeps disappearing from duty. The natural world leaves clues of his...

5 JULY, 2024 • By Salar Abdoh
Nothing is Normal, Nothing Is What it Seems (Underground Theatre in Iran After the Woman, Life, Freedom Movement)

Nothing is Normal, Nothing Is What it Seems (Underground Theatre in Iran After the Woman, Life, Freedom Movement)

An interview with an actress performing on stage in Iran without a hijab and who is no longer...

7 JUNE, 2024 • By Salar Abdoh
“Water”—a short story by Salar Abdoh

“Water”—a short story by Salar Abdoh

In the aftermath of a long war, a man in Iran searches for meaning, hopes for love, and...

4 FEBRUARY, 2024 • By Salar Abdoh
A Treatise on Love

A Treatise on Love

When disaster strikes Maryam Haidari between Tunis and Tehran, the past seven years of her life as a...

4 FEBRUARY, 2024 • By Salar Abdoh
“The Waiting Bones”—an essay by Maryam Haidari

“The Waiting Bones”—an essay by Maryam Haidari

As this writer from Khuzestan remembers, the long Iran-Iraq war left many traces, names and ghosts in its...

3 DECEMBER, 2023 • By Salar Abdoh
The Contemporary Literary Scene in Iran

The Contemporary Literary Scene in Iran

Salar Abdoh reports from Tehran on the beauty and complexity of Iranian literature that thrives despite warring factions.

1 OCTOBER, 2023 • By Salar Abdoh
Arrival in the Dark—fiction from Alireza Iranmehr

Arrival in the Dark—fiction from Alireza Iranmehr

Away from prying eyes, two lonely people pass time together under the state of emergency that has become...

2 JULY, 2023 • By Salar Abdoh
“Here, Freedom”—fiction from Danial Haghighi

“Here, Freedom”—fiction from Danial Haghighi

A small town couple have a brutally honest conversation about marriage in light of the “Woman, Life, Freedom”...

2 JULY, 2023 • By Salar Abdoh
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