Amir Ahmadi Arian Journalist Profile

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Amir Ahmadi Arian Goes in Search of Iran's Most Famous Translator

Dec 10, 2024 | yalereview.org | Amir Ahmadi Arian

Amir Ahmadi Arian In the summer of 2022, the media company Namava, the Iranian equivalent of Netflix, premiered a series called Women’s Secret Network. The show, which mingles real-life and fictional characters in a way reminiscent of E. L. Doctorow’s work, is about a fictitious women’s organization created, in the show’s alternative history, in 1931 by the first Pahlavi government.
Io, Rushdie e Khomeini

Jun 7, 2024 | internazionale.it | Amir Ahmadi Arian

Nel suo nuovo libro di memorie, Coltello (Mondadori 2024), Salman Rushdie evoca un dialogo immaginario con Hadi Matar, l’uomo che l’ha aggredito la sera del 12 agosto 2022, mentre stava per tenere una conferenza nella cittadina di Chautauqua, nello stato di New York. Rushdie cerca di dimostrare a Matar che l’uomo che credeva di conoscere non c’entra nulla con lo scrittore, e ricorre a una metafora tratta da L’ombra, una fiaba di Hans Christian Andersen.
Rushdie, Khomeini and Me

May 15, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Amir Ahmadi Arian

In his new memoir, Knife, Salman Rushdie composes an imaginary dialogue with the man who attacked him on 12 August 2022 as he was about to give a talk in the town of Chautauqua in New York State. He tries to prove to Hadi Matar that the Rushdie he thought he knew has nothing to do with the real writer, at one point borrowing a metaphor from ‘The Shadow’, a short story by Hans Christian Andersen.
Creativity is freedom for detainees

Apr 19, 2024 | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Behrouz Boochani |Amir Ahmadi Arian

Amir Ahmadi Arian Let me start with a prose poem from your book Freedom, Only Freedom, titled “Untitled”. It begins, “Here, in the neighbourhood of the people who stare for twenty-four hours solely at walls and metal, the presence of animals is a virtue.”Then you describe a variety of animals an inmate in Manus observes day and night through the fences.
When the Taliban Returned: One Womans Story of Survival

Sep 21, 2023 | thenation.com | Amir Ahmadi Arian |Anatol Lieven |Artin DerSimonian

The Nation WeeklyFridays. A weekly digest of the best of our coverage. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for programs that support The Nation’s journalism. You may unsubscribe or adjust your preferences at any time. You can read our Privacy Policy here. Later, I read that all foreign forces agreed to leave Afghanistan by August 31, allowing the Taliban to take full control of the country. I took that as a deadline for myself.
Hamed Esmaeilion

Sep 11, 2023 | harpers.org | Amir Ahmadi Arian |Christopher Beha

Isolated for years by strict censorship laws, community infighting, and language barriers, the writer Amir Ahmadi Arian often turned to Hamed Esmaeilion’s work for solace. In addition to authoring short stories and two novels, Esmaeilion chronicled mundane moments with his family on a blog that resonated deeply with Arian, someone of the same generation also working and living in the Iranian diaspora.
Waiting for the Lights

Apr 21, 2023 | harpers.org | Amir Ahmadi Arian

On September 13, 2022, the so-called morality police near Tehran’s Shahid Haqqani metro station stopped Mahsa Amini, a twenty-two-year-old visitor, for allegedly wearing an “improper hijab.” Officers put her in a van and, while driving to the police station, reportedly beat her as she begged to be released. She died three days later. As the story of her murder, along with a picture of Amini on her deathbed, spread on social media, what felt like decades of pent-up rage began to surface.