A Girl Called Rumi Buzz
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A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
A Locus Magazine Best Book of the Year
An Undomesticated Best Book of the Year
A San Diego Union-Tribune Favorite Book of the Year
Foreword INDIES Award Finalist
Buzzfeed’s 18 Books You’ll Love
Recommended by Entropy Magazine
An Advance Reading Copy’s Favorite Author
A San Diego Jewish World’s Favorite Read
Book Riot’s Favorite Fiction Featuring Cultural Traditions
Featured on Fall for the Book Panel
AudioFile Magazine’s Next Great Audiobook
Debutiful’s 10 Debut Books to Read This September
Book Riot’s Best Books You’ve Never Heard of
Elliott Bay Event featuring Seattle-Isfahan Sister City
NPR’s KPBS—Poetry, Magic, and a War-torn Childhood
San Diego Union-Tribune Front Page
Featured on A Story of Sorts Podcast
Kirkus Starred Review—spellbinding
Locus Magazine—A precious gift
Conversation with Sara Haghdoosti
Portland’s KBOO Radio—Jonesy Podcast
Featured on The Blue & Yellow Kitchen
Ten Questions with Ari Honarvar
Monologue for Monologging’s Visibility Issue
Colorado Public Radio Conversation: KGNU Metro
CBS Covers Sold-out Launch @MysteriousGalaxy
The Healing Breath of Life Review
Powell’s Conversation with Ashleigh Renard
Book Riot’s roundup of Rumi in Fiction
Interviews
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MBC Persia چند شنبه با سینــا—minute 29 (turn on English captions)
Morning in America—Iran Protests
The Third Way Podcast—Dangers of Theocracy
The Actor’s Wish Podcast—Iran protests/novel
The Atlantic—Arranged Friendships
The Shift Network’s Mystic Summit
WorldAbout Radio with Grace Farah
KPFA—Plight of Refugees in 2022
Activist San Diego Community Summit (min 32)
The Downtown Writers Jam Podcast
Holtville Tribune—Migrant Deaths
Alafia Voices of the African Diaspora
National Parents Union Spotlight
ABC 10 News on Unaccompanied Minors
Awakening Aphrodite with Amy Fournier
Chicago Tribune—Dancing with Refugees
TNOC—Actor Reading the Winning Flash Fiction
Stepping Into Truth: Conversations on Race, Gender, and Social Justice
Marisol Quevedo Rerucha of National Parents Union
Video clip of Womyn Air interview
Shoutouts
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Quoted on the Daily News
Featured on Tally South
Greatfulness.org Word for the Day
Most Popular Vox Populi Posts of 2020
On the cover of Local Umbrella News
Most Popular dailygood.com
Union Tribune’s Someone San Diego Should know: Ari Honarvar
The Establishment’s Writer Of The Week: Ari Honarvar
Featured on Good People, Good Things
Featured on Aftab Committee
Flash-Fiction Contests
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The Pomegranate Tree places 1st out of 1000+ entries in the contest, City in the Wild Garden, and is part of an anthology by the same name
A Child of the Oasis places 2nd out of 1,200 entries in Stories of the Nature of Cities 2099, and is part of the anthology, A Flash of Silver Green
Actor, Nora Achrati, reads A Child of the Oasis
Ongoing Refugee Support
Writers Conference & Workshops
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Belize Writers Conference 2020
AWP 2020 He Done Her Wrong Panel
Centering the Margins: Conversations with Writers of Color
Comic-Con
Breaking Borders Panel Discussion and benefit
Rumi’s Gift Oracle Cards Buzz
Featured in Spirituality & Health
Featured on Awakening Aphrodite Podcast
Rachel Swirl’s Blog Post & Review
Staff Pick at Tattered Cover Bookstore
Unboxing of Rumi’s Gift Oracle Deck by Avalon Cameron
Articles Featuring MAP and Gente Unida
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Bringing Music and Dance to Asylum Seekers, One Drumbeat at a Time
Drum circle helps refugee women heal from trauma
Artwork Featured on TV:
Studio Show Season 2 Episode 1
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Past Events
Taking a Solutions Approach to Journalism, Sep 2021, San Francisco State University
Amplifying the Voices of Unaccompanied Minors, Jul 2021, Zoom
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Central America Project Ongoing music sessions, Tijuana Mexico
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Live Poetry Event with Avalee, March 2020 Austin, TX
Author Panel, March 202, San Antonio, TX
A Night to Remember MAP Fundraiser, January 11, 2020 Broomfield, CO
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Post Comic-Con Event Tularosa Gallery, July 19, 2019, San Diego, CA
Rumi’s Gift Book Reading with Live Music, May 25, 2019, Bookwoman, Austin, TX
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Dance of Home October 19, 2018, San Diego, CA
Transformation through Rhythm & Word June 21, 2018, San Diego, CA
A Thousand Faces of Love Benefit June 8, 2018, Broomfield, CO
Book Reading at Boulder Bookstore June 7, 2018, Boulder, CO
From Rumi to Activism June 7, 2018, Boulder, CO
Book Reading at Tattered Cover Bookstore June 6, 2018, Denver, CO
Protest: An American Tradition April 21, 2018, San Diego, CA
Conjuring justice February 4, 2018, Santee, CA
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SOLARdarity of NUN November 11, 2017, San Diego, CA
The 7 Last Words March 26, 2017, San Diego, CA
VAMP Showcase March 30, 2017, San Diego, CA
VAMP Showcase January 26th, 2017, San Diego, CA
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Life Of Fire November 20, 2016, Los Angeles, CA
A Thousand Faces of Love August 6, 2016
Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder, Boulder, Co
Bridge Making with Music/Poetry August 5, 2016
Highland City Club, Boulder, Co
Life Of Fire July 16, 2016 Berkeley, CA
A Thousand Faces of Love June 12, 2016
Persian Cultural Center, San Diego, CA
Rumi’s Gift Presentation March 31st, 2016
Highland City Club, Boulder, Co
A Thousand Faces of Love April 1, 2016
Nevei Kodesh Jewish Center, Boulder, Co
A Thousand Faces of Love January 31 2016
Summit Unitarian Universalist Friendship, Santee, CA
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Life Of Fire December 13 2015
Japanese Friendship Garden, San Diego, CA