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Namesake by NS Nuseibeh review – the pen and the sword
In a remarkable series of essays the Palestinian academic reflects on identity, religion, and her emancipated ancestor
Dina Nayeri
07, Feb, 2024 @9:00 AM
Stay True by Hua Hsu review – laying ghosts to rest
A Pulitzer-winning meditation on guilt, memory and assimilation that perfectly evokes 90s California
Dina Nayeri
13, Sep, 2023 @6:30 AM
I Will Greet the Sun Again by Khashayar J Khabushani review – a tender debut of Iranian-US identity
Three brothers are kidnapped from LA to their father’s Iran in this astonishingly accomplished tale of displacement and the search to belong
Dina Nayeri
03, Aug, 2023 @10:00 AM
Foreign mothers, foreign tongues: ‘In another universe, she could have been my friend’
The long read: Having grown up in different cultures with different expectations, my mother and I have often clashed. But as my daughter grows older, I have come to see our relationship in a different light
Dina Nayeri
09, Mar, 2023 @6:00 AM
Fight Night by Miriam Toews review – a war cry for rebellious women
The relationships between three generations – child, mother, grandmother – are brilliantly observed in a novel full of humour and pain
Dina Nayeri
09, Jun, 2022 @6:30 AM
'Love, loss and longing': the best books on migration, chosen by writers
Amid the American Dirt controversy, we asked authors of our favorite books about migration for their recommendations
Julia Carrie Wong, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Luis Alberto Urrea, Angie Cruz, Mohsin Hamid, Matt de la Peña, Dina Nayeri and Aida Salazar
06, Feb, 2020 @6:00 AM
Two Blankets, Three Sheets by Rodaan Al Galidi – nine years in an asylum centre
This tragicomic Dutch bestseller tells the autobiographical story of an Iraqi refugee. It is essential reading
Dina Nayeri
17, Jan, 2020 @9:00 AM
Pride and prejudice: the best books on the refugee experience
From a comedy about a childhood in wartime to a memoir smuggled from Manus Island on a phone, Dina Nayeri selects the best books about asylum
Dina Nayeri
30, Sep, 2019 @5:30 AM
'I wouldn't be the refugee, I'd be the girl who kicked ass': how taekwondo made me
The long read: When she arrived in the US as a 10-year-old refugee, Dina Nayeri found it hard to fit in. But that all changed when she hatched a plan to get into Harvard – by becoming a taekwondo champion
Dina Nayeri
31, May, 2019 @5:00 AM
The Farm by Joanne Ramos review – the business of exploitation
Wealthy foetuses occupy the bodies of immigrant women in a thrilling debut about the new frontier of colonialism and the savagery of the American dream
Dina Nayeri
09, May, 2019 @7:59 AM
Red Birds by Mohammed Hanif review – a thrilling satire of US foreign policy
The ugliness of war is brilliantly captured in this wildly original novel narrated by a teenage refugee and a philosopher-dog
Dina Nayeri
10, Oct, 2018 @6:30 AM
'Accepting charity is an ugly business': my return to the refugee camps, 30 years on
Dina Nayeri was eight when she and her family fled Iran. Are today’s refugees treated with more dignity?
Dina Nayeri
15, Sep, 2018 @10:00 AM
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