Articles & Poems

• HUNKER
  • 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

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

• 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

• YES! MAGAZINE
• • 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

• 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
  • Amid the Deadly Pandemic, 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

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