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Salar Abdoh

Salar Abdoh is an Iranian novelist, essayist and translator, who divides his time between New York and Tehran. He is the author of the novels Poet Game (2000), Opium (2004), Tehran at Twilight (2014), and Out of Mesopotamia (2020) and the editor of the short story collection Tehran Noir (2014). His latest novel, A Nearby Country Called Love, published last year by Viking, was described by the New York Times as “a complex portrait of interpersonal relationships in contemporary Iran.” Salar Abdoh also teaches in the graduate program in Creative Writing at the City College of New York at the City University of New York.

2 May, 2025 • Salar Abdoh

Leaving Abdoh, Finding Chamran

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

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1 November, 2024 • Farnaz Haeri, Salar Abdoh

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 pets well into adulthood.

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5 July, 2024 • Alireza Iranmehr, Salar Abdoh

“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 whereabouts.

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7 June, 2024 • Mehrnaz Daneshvar, Salar Abdoh

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 taking on roles that require official approval.

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4 February, 2024 • 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 struggles with the story of a whale.

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4 February, 2024 • Maryam Haidari, Salar Abdoh

A Treatise on Love

When disaster strikes Maryam Haidari between Tunis and Tehran, the past seven years of her life as a poet, writer and translator are thrown into stark relief.

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3 December, 2023 • Maryam Haidari, Salar Abdoh

“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 eight-year wake.

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1 October, 2023 • Salar Abdoh

The Contemporary Literary Scene in Iran

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

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2 July, 2023 • Alireza Iranmehr, Salar Abdoh

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 Iran.

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2 July, 2023 • Danial Haghighi, Salar Abdoh

“Here, Freedom”—fiction from Danial Haghighi

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

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2 July, 2023 • Salar Abdoh

“The Long Walk of the Martyr”—fiction from Salar Abdoh

In Salar Abdoh’s new short story, Iranian militias return from war to a life and country to which they have difficulty adjusting.

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15 October, 2022 • Sara Mokhavat, Salar Abdoh

Defiance—an essay from Sara Mokhavat

When an oppressive, insulting cleric makes life unbearable at a university campus in Tehran, students rebel. Pandemonium ensues.

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15 July, 2022 • Shokouh Moghimi, Salar Abdoh

Big Laleh, Little Laleh—memoir by Shokouh Moghimi

Who knows what drives anyone mad? For a sister who loves her big sister and emulates her, the mystery will perhaps never be resolved.

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15 June, 2022 • Alireza Iranmehr, Salar Abdoh

“Buenos Aires of Her Eyes”—a story by Alireza Iranmehr

One of contemporary Iran's best storytellers conjures a tale of octogenarian love in a Nabokovian mode.

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15 February, 2022 • Juliana Francis Kelly, Salar Abdoh

Reza Abdoh: L.A.’s Theatre Visionary

Playwright and theatre director Reza Abdoh left his mark on Los Angeles and national theatre culture, as actor-writer Juliana Francis Kelly recounts in her look back on their collaborative relationship.

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15 January, 2022 • Peyman Hooshmandzadeh, Salar Abdoh

Refugees of Afghanistan in Iran: a Photo Essay by Peyman Hooshmandzadeh

In Iran, Afghan refugees have been a part our everyday lives for over four decades now.

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