"An Inventory of Infinite Traces" Gramsci
This summer I’ve had the great luxury of time and the gift of an iPhone 4s. So, I’ve photo documented the process of copyediting the late Lebanese poet, Nadia Tueni’s (1935-1983) poetry collection: The Blond Texts + The Age of Embers translated from the French by Amir Parsa. The photos are from June-July 2012 and […]
MoreI’m packing up these beauties to take over to the Brooklyn College Library Zine Collections Archive. Earlier this week Alycia Sellie from the library contacted Robert Booras and I about submitting our zines. Although, at first I thought I had lost my old zines in my move — I was ecstatic after finding this humble […]
MoreAnd one more lovely interview about One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature. Thank you Leonard Schwartz who asked such great questions. Cross Cultural Poetics (Seattle, WA)
MoreAfghan American Writing: “One Story, Thirty Stories” If you think of Afghan American literature, chances are good that Khaled Hosseini’s bestselling novels “The Kite Runner” and “A Thousand Splendid Suns” will come to mind. And your associations might not go much beyond that. Afghan American writing has been growing in depth and richness, though, a […]
MoreYesterday, Sahar and I did an interview on SAJA Webcast. Ariana Delawari and Sedika Mojadidi joined and shared their powerful work. Listen HERE One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature Meet the editors and two of the writers Friday, Jan. 14, 2011 1-2 pm NY time 10:30-11:30 pm Kabul time Thanks […]
MoreOne Dec. 19, 2010, Zora, owner of the lovely Zora Space in Park Slope, Brooklyn generously hosted the celebration of our book. The cafe was packed with friends, family, long lost friends, colleagues, mentors and babies! Here are some images from the event: One corner of the audience. The other side went all […]
MoreWBAI Recording of the Wake Up show on Thursday mornings with Esther Armah Listen to the last half of the show HERE this is from September 2010.
MoreThe City University of New York hosted three panels featuring Afghan/Afghan-American activists, writers, and poets. These four days were some of the most transformative days for me. Afghan and Afghan-American experiences differing and sometimes disagreeing with one another is not always seen. I was very fortunate to have co-curated these panels with Padmini Biswas for […]
MoreThe wonderful Dr. Donia Gobar and I are representing Afghanistan in this excellent anthology. Thanks to the hard work of Sukrita Paul Kumar and Malashri Lal, the anthology is quiet expansive and covers West Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia. What an honor to be included among such talented women and […]
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