Publishing History

Interview: Zohra Saed, Afghan American

Essay: “Sublime Sky”

Essay “A Six Year Old’s Birthday Party”

Script of Ping Chong’s Undesirable Elements, a life history project that I was a part of in 2007

An Anthology of Asian Women’s Writings [Edited by Sukrita Paul Kumar and Savita Singh]

Essay “Talaq, or my Mother’s Divorce”

An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature

Personal Essays/Testimonials

Poetry

Essay “September 18, 2001” and poetry

Essay “When I thought I was Arab but turned out to be Chinese” and interview with Afghan American artists and writers [co-edited with Leila Nader]

“Interview with Zohra Saed”

Essay “Samsa on Sheepshead Bay: Uzbek Foodprints in Southern Brooklyn”

Poetry Chapbook “Misspelled Cities” by Sahar Muradi and Zohra Saed

Seven International Poets [Edited by Sukrita Paul Kumar and Savita Singh]

Preface

Recent Publishing History:

BOOKS:

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

CHAPBOOK:

Misspelled Cities/Falsch Geschriebene Stadte: Notebook 105, by Sahar Muradi and Zohra Saed. Poetry Chapbook for Documenta 13. (Kassel, Germany). Bilingual: English/German. (2012)

ESSAYS:

“Samsa on Sheepshead Bay: Central Asian Foodprints in Southern Brooklyn,” Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader Edited by Robert Ku, Anita Mannur and Martin Manalansan (NYU Press: 2013).

“When I Thought I was Arab but Turned out to be Chinese” and “Interviews with Afghan American Artists and Writers” THE ASIAN AMERICAN LITERARY REVIEW: SPECIAL ISSUE MIXE

“An Historic Survey of the Educational System in Afghanistan,” International Education: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Issues and Systems Ed. Daniel Ness and Chia-ling Lin. M.E. Sharpe (November, 2012).

Testimonies. Asian American Literary Review’s Special Issue Commemorating the 10^th Anniversary of September 11. Vol. 2 Issue 1.5, 2011.  The Asian American Literary Review. University of Maryland.

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

POETRY:

Aug. 2012 “Kandahar” Split This Rock Poem of the Week. www.splitthisrock.org

2011  Poetry. Seven Leaves, One Autumn: Seven International Women’s Poetry, Sukrita Singh, Savita Paul Kumar. (Rajkamal Publishing House: New Delhi, India). An anthology of seven international poets.

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