ARCHIVE: The New York Times

2026

• We are finally free from Khamenei’s suffocating gaze

• Book Review: The nicest hostage takers you’ll ever meet

2023

• Before Hillary Clinton, there was Rosalynn Carter

2021

• The middle-class women of Iran are disappearing

2020

• The day after war begins in Iran

2019

• ‘I’m going to be honest, this baby is going to die’

2018

• The lingering dream of an Islamic State

2017

• How did Rumi become one of our best-selling poets?

2016

• Your boycott won’t help Iranian women

• A new book defends Iran’s last shah

• Once I saw light in Iran. Now it's mostly shadows.

2015

• Isis women and enforcers in Syria recount collaboration, anguish and escape

• What Iran fears from reporters like Jason Rezaian

2011

• The anchor: A review of "The Next Big Story: My Journey Through the Land of Possibilities"

2010

• Tehran in chains: Reviews of "Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran" and "Death to the Dictator!: A Young Man Casts a Vote in Iran’s 2009 Election and Pays a Devastating Price"

2009

• Most fundamentalist: A review of "Khomeini's Ghost: The Iranian Revolution and the Rise of Militant Islam"

2007

• Seeking signs of literary life in Iran