Salar Abdoh reflects on returning to Iran, burdened by injustice and a desire to reconnect with a culture...
2 MAY 2025 • By Salar Abdoh
An Iranian writer and translator in the heart of Tehran unexpectedly becomes a cat woman, attached to her...
1 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Farnaz Haeri, Salar Abdoh
In this short story, an Iranian conscript keeps disappearing from duty. The natural world leaves clues of his...
5 JULY 2024 • By Alireza Iranmehr, Salar Abdoh
An interview with an actress performing on stage in Iran without a hijab and who is no longer...
7 JUNE 2024 • By Mehrnaz Daneshvar, 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
When disaster strikes Maryam Haidari between Tunis and Tehran, the past seven years of her life as a...
4 FEBRUARY 2024 • By Maryam Haidari, Salar Abdoh
As this writer from Khuzestan remembers, the long Iran-Iraq war left many traces, names and ghosts in its...
3 DECEMBER 2023 • By Maryam Haidari, Salar Abdoh
Salar Abdoh reports from Tehran on the beauty and complexity of Iranian literature that thrives despite warring factions.
1 OCTOBER 2023 • By Salar Abdoh
Away from prying eyes, two lonely people pass time together under the state of emergency that has become...
2 JULY 2023 • By Alireza Iranmehr, Salar Abdoh
A small town couple have a brutally honest conversation about marriage in light of the “Woman, Life, Freedom”...
2 JULY 2023 • By Danial Haghighi, Salar Abdoh
In Salar Abdoh’s new short story, Iranian militias return from war to a life and country to which...
2 JULY 2023 • By Salar Abdoh
When an oppressive, insulting cleric makes life unbearable at a university campus in Tehran, students rebel. Pandemonium ensues.
15 OCTOBER 2022 • By Sara Mokhavat, Salar Abdoh
