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Events

Selected Essays

Featured Events of 2025

 

Nov. 5, 12, 19 & Dec 5. CSU, Monterey Bay, OLLI, The Wit and Wisdom of Sufi Stories 

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June 13, 21, 27. San Francisco State University, Iranian Cinema

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March 12,18, 26. Lecture series on Persian Mystic Poets

 

March 27-30. Speaker at AWP, Los Angeles, "Writing Across Political Divide" & reading at Chevalier's Books

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April 2. Speaker at Gentrain, Monterey Peninsula College

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Selected Speaking Engagements 

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Panelist: "The Ethics of Writing Fiction Based on Fact" AWP 

 

Speaker: MIIS.

University of California, Santa Barbara, 

Santa Clara University 

Southern Methodist University. 

George Mason University

Simon Fraser University, Canada

University of California, Irvine

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Media & Lectures

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Wall Street Journal

Roxane Gay, the Audacious Book Club

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 NPR

The Young Turks 

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NPR

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Podcast

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