I like my Persian compatriots' long standing love affair with nothingness. And I say “Persian” to include a literary/linguistic country from Samarqand, Bokhara, Herat, to

It was when we moved to a small mining town in Ontario that I started  detesting my name. Growing up as Solmaz in a town

My editor called and asked if I could stay with the retrospective voice throughout the new novel. Unsure of how retrospective she wanted the voice

I was cleaning and  found this random old journal entry from my trip to Afghanistan this past March. God, the poverty here startles me, and

Some of us as internet authors have the advantage of being able to adjust our writings with time in order to make the same point

In January 2005 David Bell, a School Inspector, delivered a speech which was published in The Guardian about the rise in the number of religious

Three poems * Old births, new deaths * A whistle * Blind shadows Old births, new deaths there is a break between the existing and