PUBLIshed work

+ 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)

newsletter - “TINY DRIVER”

FROM 2020-2022, I WROTE “TINY DRIVER,” a weekly newsletter about writing and reading in the interdisciplinary humanities.

here are some of my favorite posts from this project:

+ HISTORICAL TERMS & ACADEMIC IDEAS, TRANSLATED

• #oah2022

• mena vs. swana

• a return to the archive

• so you want to talk about empire

• instagram as archive (part 1) and (part 2)

• that doesn't mean dumbing it down 2.0 (after AHP)

+ CULTURE

• questions & new media

• "the night" is a spooky "minari"

• scattered thoughts on "dark academia"

• i may destroy you (definitely destroyed me)

+ TEACHING

• embodied work

• re-reading "this bridge called my back"

• student zines on asian/american activism

• dead professors society

+ PERSONAL REFLECTION & META-COMMENTARY

• despair! at the archives

• liberating my research

• conversations in the margins

• ten things i learned (one year after getting my phd)

• a historian’s sketchbook

Profile/features

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