Articles & Poems

• Independent UK
  • ♝The US Soccer Federation was right to change Iran’s flag — and I know why it made the regime panic
  • ♝What will happen to the Iran World Cup team now?

• Poetic Depictions
  • ♝Iranian Protesters — A Calligram & Translation

•  NEWSWEEK
  • ♝Wake Up! Iranian Protests Foreshadow Life for American Women 

  • ♝ I Left Iran for the U.S. to Get AWAY From a Theocracy

  • ♝ Stop Saying Migrant Parents Don’t Love Their Children

• YES! MAGAZINE
  • ♝ Platonic Matchmaking for Intentional Friendships
  • ♝ When Savoring a Pleasant Moment Is a Radical Act
  • ♝ Why Rituals Are Good for Your Health
  • ♝ Amid Travel Ban, Refugee Women Cope With Trauma and Stress Through Drum Circles

• NEW YORK TIMES
  • ♝ My Mother’s Prayer and Poem

•  HUNKER
  • ♝ 7 Facts About Sesame That Will Blow Your Mind
  • ♝ 3 Simple Things You Can Do to Reduce Your Household Spending
  • ♝ 7 Delectable Tea Cake Recipes Perfect for a Cozy Snack
  • ♝ 4 Rituals That Can Contribute to Your Wellbeing
  • ♝ 7 Nowruz Recipes for Welcoming in the Persian New Year

•  The Other Side of Hope
  • ♝ The Old Man and the Shoe

•  Powell’s Books
  • ♝ We Couldn’t Sing. We Couldn’t Dance

•  Washington Post
  • ♝ Arranged Friends—Creating an Oasis in the Friendship Desert

•  Literary Hub
  • ♝ Gained in Translation

•  PARABOLA
  • ♝ Firekeepers—The Heart of Persian Poetry

•  SLATE
  • ♝ Why Dancing Is So Good for Us

• RED FEATHER
  • ♝ RIPENED NARCISSISM—A Mystic’s Perspective

• VICE
  • ♝ These ‘Conscious’ Masks Use AI to Send Secret Messages By Blinking
  • ♝ ‘I Loved Myself for the First Time’: Women Prisoners Heal Trauma with Dance
  • ♝ Growing Up As a Girl in Iran, Fashion Was Always a Form of Protest

• BUSINESS INSIDER
  • ♝ I grew up as a woman in Iran after the Islamic revolution. Wearing a mask in a pandemic is not a form of tyrannical oppression.

• CRITICAL READ
  • ♝ Drop Out. Tune In. Start a Revolution.

• INVISIBLE PEOPLE
  • ♝ A Homeless Choir Amplifies the Message of Hope
  • ♝ Hotel Vouchers 4 All Provides San Diego Homeless People with Shelter During Pandemic

• TEEN VOGUE
  • ♝ Undocumented Immigrants Are Fighting for Driver’s Licenses in Massachusetts to Drive Without Fear
  • ♝ LGBTQ Asylum Seekers Face Layered Marginalization, So These Four Organizations Are Here to Help
  • ♝ Migrants and Advocates Explain the Migrant Hunger Strike Protesting U.S. Asylum Policy
  • ♝ I Was Arrested for Chaining Myself Up Outside a Migrant Detention Facility
  • ♝ LGBTQ Asylum Seekers Face Danger at the United States-Mexico Border
  • ♝ Yarely and Aracely Duarte Are 13-Year-Old Immigrants’ Rights Activists
  • ♝ I ‘m 14 and Was Cited for Feeding the Homeless

• YAHOO
  • ♝ Children at the Border Need Joy, Just Like Our Kids. So I Bring Them Music

• PARENTS
  • ♝ Parenting in a Time of ICE Raids Reminds Me of My Childhood as an Iranian Refugee
  • ♝ I’m Raising a Democratic Family, Here’s How

• REWIRE.NEWS
  • ♝ Court Observers Are Shining a Light on the Immigration Court System
  • ♝ As Government Continues ‘Dumping’ Migrants in Border Cities, Activists Organize
  • ♝ Chillactivism Is a Form of Resistance
  • ♝ Caravan Asylum Seekers Let in, But Their Harrowing Journey Continues

• THE NATION
  • ♝ A 6-Year-Old Girl Was Sexually Abused in an Immigrant-Detention Center  

• THRIVE GLOBAL
  • ♝ Why I Created a Rumi Oracle Deck

• THE DISPATCH
  • ♝ Make America Walk Again

• SUCCESS MAGAZINE
  • ♝ 3 Practical Ways to Use Rejection to Build Resilience

• THE GUARDIAN
  • ♝ Twelve charged for defying California city’s ban on feeding homeless

• MOTHERLY
  • ♝ How to Boost Your Child’s Emotional Intelligence

• GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
  • ♝ My First American Christmas As an Iranian Refugee

• HELLO GIGGLES
  • ♝ The day I found out I wasn’t white

• INTIMATES
  • ♝ How My Poet-Refugee Mother Became A Trump Supporter (Medium Staff Pick)

• OZY MEDIA
  • ♝ I Was a 9-Year-Old Girl in War-Torn Iran  

• THE ESTABLISHMENT
  • ♝ What Happened When My Travel Ban-Supporting Neighbor Met With Refugees
  • ♝ Poetry Saved Me In Iran — Could It Save Us From War?
  • ♝ I’m A Refugee From A Banned Country — This Is My American Story (Medium Staff Pick)

• ELEPHANT JOURNAL
  • ♝ I Lived through the “New Normal” & Don’t want to do it Again. (Editor’s Pick)

• HUFFINGTON POST
  • ♝ Out Beyond Whitewashing Rumi…
  • ♝ What Trump (and America) Could Learn From Narcissus
  • ♝ Two Women on Opposite Sides of a War, Meet for the First Time

• ALTERNET
  • ♝ As the Trump administration attempts to install a Muslim ban, I am compelled to reflect on my past.

• MEDIUM
  • ♝ What Do you do? — Rumi’s answer
  • ♝ Rumi’s Meditation
  • ♝ Courage: What’s love got to do with it?
  • ♝ The Tyranny of Happiness