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Salar Abdoh

Salar Abdoh’s most recent book is Out of Mesopotamia (Akashic Books, 2020), a New York Times Editors’ Choice, which will be released in paperback in August. He lives and works in Tehran and New York City, where he teaches in the MFA program at the City College of New York.

July/Aug 2022

To Live Again

By Aliyeh Ataei, translated by Salar Abdoh

Translated from the Persian The TV announced that Tehran’s pollution index was at 140 and that children and the elderly should not leave home. I was supposed to take my […]