Salar Abdoh

Salar Abdoh was born in Iran and splits his time between Tehran and New York City. He is the author of the novels Tehran at Twilight, The Poet Game, Opium, and Out of Mesopotamia and the editor of Tehran Noir. He teaches in the MFA program at the City College of New York.

Literature’s Porous Borders: Where Fiction Ends and Reality Begins

Salar Abdoh on Love, War and the Historical Forces That Inspire Art

November 7, 2023 By Salar Abdoh

The View From Iran: On the Consequences of a Trump Presidency

Salar Abdoh Looks Ahead to the November Election

September 1, 2020 By Salar Abdoh

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