An immigrant’s arrival in America has a distinct physical beginning marked by the landing of one’s plane. But there’s another arrival, the cultural one, that’s

If April is the cruelest month, then September is the strangest. Strangest, that is, for Iranian-Americans. It’s the month that brings Iran’s mortifier-in-chief, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,

My second book, Assassins of the Turquoise Palace, is a retelling of the Mykonos assassinations, when Iranian-Kurdish opposition leaders were killed at a restaurant in

My second book, Assassins of the Turquoise Palace, will be released on September 6 by Grove/Atlantic. The book is a retelling of the Mykonos Assassinations,

Is the drama unraveling in Egypt today a sequel to the one that began in Iran in 1979? This is the question of the hour.

Five young Iranian Kurds were executed last Sunday in summary trials reminiscent of the era that immediately followed the fall of the Shah and the

February 11, 2010 did not turn out to be the end of the regime in Tehran. But in time, it may prove to have been