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Author: Salar Abdoh

Sara Mokhavat studied Film at the University of Art in Tehran. Her novel, The Woman Who was Found at the Lost & Found, was published in 2016 in Iran. She also wrote and directed the play, Goodbye My Cherry Orchard, and her short film, Private, was shown at the 57th Chicago Film Festival. Currently she’s working on a book regarding the Iran-Iraq war.

Salar Abdoh is an Iranian novelist and essayist who divides much of 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 and translator of the anthology Tehran Noir (2014). He also teaches in the graduate program in Creative Writing at the City College of New York at the City University of New York. Abdoh seeks to help Iran re-engage with the Arab world and convey more of Iranian culture to the west. He is a TMR contributing editor. Salar Abdoh at Goodreads.

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

Alireza Iranmehr: “Buenos Aires of Her Eyes”

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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