Recent Publishing History:

PUBLICATIONS:

One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature (University of Arkansas Press, Nov. 2010) co-edited by Zohra Saed and Sahar Muradi

“Gazelle Samizay: Claustrophobic Spaces, the Art of Tucking Away and Radical Self Making” Zohra Saed, (March 1, 2011) Contemporary Practices vol. VII (Dubai, UAE).

“Neptune Avenue” Poetry. U.S. Policy, U.S. Embassy. Nov. 18, 2010 http://uspolicy.belgium.usembassy.gov/headline/%E2%80%9Cneptune-avenue%E2%80%9D-zohra-saed

PRESENTATIONS

“Where is Chinatown? Narrative Remappings with Henry Chang, Cristiana Baik and R.A. Villanueva, Ed Lin, Zohra Saed, and Kelly Tsai.” Museum of Chinese in America. May 7, 2011.

 “30 Stories and Halal Pork: Feast of Poetry, Tales, and Song by Afghan Americans and their Friends” with Zohra Saed, Sahar Muradi, Cihan Kaan and +Aziz. Wang Center Asian American Cultural Center, Stony Brook University. Long Island, NY. April 7, 2011.

“Afghans in America: a Reading from One Story, Thirty Stories (Multimedia presentation by authors Zohra Saed, Sahar Muradi, and Gazelle Samizay)” Seattle Museum of Art, Seattle, Washington. March 27, 2011.

“From Central Asia to Iran to Brooklyn” Moderator. Zora Space. Co-Sponsored by the Association of Iranian American Writers, the Asian American Writers Workshop and UpSet Press. Brooklyn, NY. March 25, 2011.

“Asia in New York with Zohra Saed, Aphrodite Desiree Navab, and Lisa Ko” New York City College of Technology, CUNY. March 18, 2011.

“Poetry Reading Featuring Zohra Saed” Poetry Center, Hillwood Museum, Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus. Feb. 17, 2011

“Book Launch: One Story, Thirty Stories with Zohra Saed and Sahar Muradi” Sharjah International Book Fair, Sharjah UAE. Oct. 31, 2010.

“Emerging Writers Panel” with Lisa Dempster, Sahar Muradi and Zohra Saed. Sharjah International Book Fair, Sharjah, UAE. Oct. 27, 2010

“Gender in the Middle East and it’s Diasporas” Center for Middle East Studies, Rutgers University. September 23, 2010.

INTERVIEWS:

 “Upsetting Brooklyn” Eleanor J. Bader, The Brooklyn Rail. March 2011. http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/03/local/upsetting-brooklyn

 “Afghan American writing ‘One Story, Thirty Stories’” Interview with Bruce Wallace PRI’s The World, (WNYC Radio, NY). February 4, 2011 http://www.theworld.org/2011/02/afghan-american-one-story-thirty-stories/

“Zohra Saed and Sedika Mojadidi read from One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Afghan-American American Literature (University of Arkansas Press)” Interview with Leonard Schwartz on Cross Cultural Poetics, KAOS-FM at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. January, 2011. http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/groups/XCP/XCP_227_Saed_Mojadidi_2-13-11.mp3

“Afghan Americans: Three Poets, Two Editors” Levantine Review, The Levantine Center. Los Angeles, CA. January 4, 2011. http://www.levantinecenter.org/arts/cultures/central-asia/afghan/afghan-americans-three-poets-two-editors

 “South Asian Journalist Association Webcast: One Story, Thirty Stories” Interview with Sree Sreenivasan. NY, NY. January 14, 2011. http://www.sajaforum.org/2011/01/books-webcast-one-story-thirty-stories-afghan-american-anthology.html

2009

“Lime Trees at Dusk” Crab Orchard Review (Summer/Fall 2009) Vol. 14 No. 2

“Circles of Exile”The Drunken Boat (Spring 2009) www.drunkenboat.com Issue 10: Arts in Asia.

Poetry, Speaking for Myself: Asian Women’s Writings Edited by Sukrita Paul Kumar and Malashri Lal. Published by Penguin Books India. New Delhi, India.

“Boghaz Qom, or Pregnant Desert” Indian Horizons, published by The Indian Counsel for Cultural Relations. Delhi, India.

“Neptune Avenue”, “Peshawar”, “Khyber Pass”, “Kabul” Internationale Gallerie Journal of Art & Ideas.  Issue #23. Mumbai, India.

“Afghan American Literature” and “Iranian American Literature” Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature, Ed. Guiyou Huang, Greenwood Press.

2008

“Undesirable Elements” written by Ping Chong and Sarah Zatz, full script of life history theater work was published in New York Theater Review.

2007

“March, 1981,” Cheers to Muses: Asian American Women Artists, Ed. The Asian American Women’s Artists’ Association. California.

2006

“Talaq, My Mother’s Divorce” Cut-Loose, ed. Nan Bauer-Maglin.  Rutgers U. Press.

“April 1978”; “Answering”; “The Things that Still Reach Us in Brooklyn”, Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith and Sexuality ed. Sarah Husain. Seal Press.

“Ping Chong,” “Nahid Rachlin,” “Foreigner,” and “Heart of Desire,” Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Literature, Asian American section. Ed. Seiwoong Oh. Facts on File.

2005

“The things we leave behind” Tribes Magazine. Tribes Gallery, NYC.

ESSAY, “Negotiating New Labyrinths: One Week After Sept. 11,” Shattering Stereotypes: Muslim Women Speak, Ed. Fawzia Afzal Khan.  Interlink Press.

INTERVIEW, “Zohra Saed: Afghan American” in The Chosen Shore: Stories of Immigrants by Ellen Alexander Conley. University of California Press.

2004

OCTOBER 17, 2004

CONTRIBUTING POET, “What the Scar Revealed” Suture: The Healing Issue, a compilation of contemporary visual artists and writers works.  Ed. Joe Santarromana and Bruna Mori. Premier at D.U.M.B.O: Art Under the Bridge Short Video and Film Festival.

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2004

POETRY “Kites or Flying Dolls”, “Promises and Possibilities: Images of Islam in America.” Saudi Aramco World vol. 55 no. 5. Saudi Arabia.

2003

ESSAY, This Day: Diaries of American Women. Beyond Words Publishing, 2003.

WINTER 2003

“The Difference Between Rubies and Pomegranates” The Literary Review. Fairleigh Dickenson University, New Jersey.

2002

“A Birth in the Lime Orchard,” 2001 Dialogue Through Poetry.  Published by Rattapallax.

2001

SEPTEMBER 20, 2001

ESSAY, I Noticed that at the very Navel of this Anger is Fear: Fragments of a Journal the week after the Tragedy of September 11   www.tehelka.com

2000

WINTER 2000

POEMS, “Circles of Exile” and “The Navel of the Desert,” MIZNA: Prose, Poetry and Art Exploring Arab America. Vol 2 issue 3.