As a debut novelist, the selection of my book Rooftops of Tehran for Villanova University’s One Book program was an amazing honor. In its fifth

On one of my recent trips to the Middle East, a friend and a business associate, Hesam, invited me over to his house for dinner.

As the 40th day of Neda’s death was commemorated in Iran a few days ago, and as I read in an article on Truthout on