2018 “Nicht hier und nicht dort” Le Monde Diplomatique
2018 “Trump and the Protesters: From Iran to Orange County,”Counterpunchhttps://www.counterpunch.org/2018/01/08/trump-and-the-protesters-from-iran-to-orange-county/
2017 “Bin Ich Eine Immigrantin?” Le Monde Diplomatique
2017 “Am I an Immigrant” London Review of Books Blog
2017 “The Truths Fiction Tells: What literary invention can reveal about the reality of the Iranian Revolution.” Stanford University Press Blog
2016 “Shock and fear, or hope for change? Three views on what a Trump presidency means for Muslim Americans, Middle Eastern Americans and in the Middle East” Detroit Free Press
2016 “Persia is My Heart” Academic Books Combined
2015 “Fictive Truths” Aeon Magazine of Ideas and Culture
2014 “Ethnographic Fiction: The Space Between” Savage Minds, Anthropology blog.
2008 “Miniskirt Democracy: Muslim Women’s Memoirs” A review of Soft Weapons: Autobiography in Transitby Gillian Whitlock and Prisoner of Tehran, Marina Nemat London Review of Books, July 31, 2008
2008 “Seeking Martyrdom: Dying for an ideal” in Tehran Transit, edited by Maziar Bahari and Malu Halasa. Trolley Books; Garnet and Salis Verlag Publishers for the German language edition, London, 2008.
2007 “Diary: A Visit to the Martyr Museum,”London Review of Books,March 8,
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2005 “Pulling Focus on Kiarostami’s Iran,” Eastern Art Report5(2):19-24.