PUBLIC WRITING

+ iran & iranian diaspora

Iranian students add to a long history of brave protests (Washington Post, Oct 2022) (PDF)

+ race & media

Celebrate Zines (Anti-Racism Daily, Feb 2021)
Invest in New Media (Anti-Racism Daily, Jan 2021)
Unpack Middle Eastern Stereotypes in Hollywood (Anti-Racism Daily, Dec 2020)

+ popULAR culture

The Haunting of Bly Manor and the horrors visited on the othered body (Episodes, Mar 2021) (PDF)
How Tarot is Becoming More Inclusive, from the Cards to the Readings (NYLON, Sep 2020)

+ Academia

Learn from Public Syllabi (Anti-Racism Daily, Feb 2021)
Rethink What a Professor Looks Like (Anti-Racism Daily, Nov 2020)
Writing a Zine in a Pandemic (The Professor is In, Sep 2020)

features

What To Read: Ida Yalzadeh is mixing academia and culture (Substack blog, Jan 2021)
Between East Instagram feature (Between East, Jan 2021)

Public humanities projects

Co-curator, Changing America: Rhode Island

This digital exhibit was launched in 2015 to accompany the traveling exhibition Changing America: The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 and the March on Washington, 1963, made in collaboration with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, the National Museum of American History, the American Library Association Public Programs Office, and Brown University’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. To accompany the physical exhibit, I, along with two of my colleagues, worked to develop a digital companion website, called Changing America Rhode Island, that localizes and contextualizes the narratives present in the exhibit’s panels. (Read more)

Project director, iranian american oral history project: los angeles

The Iranian American Oral History Project – Los Angeles was started in 2017 as a way of recording the experiences of Iranian Americans who migrated to the United States prior to or in the wake of the Iranian Revolution of 1979. As such, the oral histories collected are meant to give voice the experiences and memories of a variety of Iranian immigrants who settled in Los Angeles. (Read more)