Roja Heydarpour's guest appearances

Roja Heydarpour

AAWW Radio: New Asian American Writers & Literature

Rahul Mehta

Will Harris

Fatimah Asghar

Yiyun Li

Charles Yu

Kamila Shamsie

Mariam Ghani

Vivian Lee

Sadia Shepard

Akhil Sharma

Elif Batuman

Gish Jen

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Alexander Chee

Ted Chiang

OwlTail

Alia Malek

Dina Nayeri

Rami Karim

Novelist Dina Nayeri, journalist Alia Malek, and poet Rami Karim's work surrounds Middle East politics, revolution, and the refugee experience. You may have read Iranian-American novelist Dina Nayeri’s viral story in The Guardian, “The Ungrateful Refugee: We Have No Debt to Pay.” She reads from her book Refuge, a powerful story of a daughter who leaves Iran, but leaves her father behind. Syrian-American journalist Alia Malek returned to Damascus to live in her grandfather’s home–just as the Syrian conflict started. She writes about it in The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria. They read with AAWW Margins Fellow Rami Karim, the author of lyric poems set against the Civil War in Lebanon. This mashup of poetry, fiction, and memoir speaks to the complex nature of home: a place that elusively remains in flux through return and exile. This event is moderated and introduced by AAWW Muslim Community Fellow Roja Heydarpour. Watch the video for Searching for Home here. Music by Robert Rusli &amp; Lu Yang.  http://aaww.org

Novelist Dina Nayeri, journalist Alia Malek, and poet Rami Karim's work surrounds Middle East politics, revolution, and the refugee experience. You may have read Iranian-American novelist Dina Nayeri’s viral story in The Guardian, “The Ungrateful Refugee: We Have No Debt to Pay.” She reads from her book Refuge, a powerful story of a daughter who leaves Iran, but leaves her father behind. Syrian-American journalist Alia Malek returned to Damascus to live in her grandfather’s home–just as the Syrian conflict started. She writes about it in The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria. They read with AAWW Margins Fellow Rami Karim, the author of lyric poems set against the Civil War in Lebanon. This mashup of poetry, fiction, and memoir speaks to the complex nature of home: a place that elusively remains in flux through return and exile. This event is moderated and introduced by AAWW Muslim Community Fellow Roja Heydarpour. Watch the video for Searching for Home <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6eF-vKneEQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. Music by Robert Rusli &amp; Lu Yang.  <a href="http://aaww.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://aaww.org</a>

Searching for Home (ft. Alia Malek, Dina Nayeri, Rami Karim, and Roja Heydarpour)