Ladane Nasseri
@ladanenasseri
Writer • Fellow: @MacDowell1907 • Faculty: @lighthousewrite • Past: Iran news chief & Mideast correspondent for Bloomberg • Byline: NYT @BW LAT @mcsweeneys etc.
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29-09-2012 10:55:04
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My assignment as deputy bureau chief for AFP News Agency in #Tehran is over. #Iran is a beautifully rich, fascinatingly diverse, and intrinsically complex nation. Try to understand it before writing about/claiming you're an 'expert' on it. Report its realities, not what you want them to be.
When we frame jobs as passions or callings, it obscures the fact that jobs are, first and foremost, economic contracts. My first (!!) for New York Times Opinion. nytimes.com/2023/06/05/opi…
In this week’s Recommended Reading, Ladane Nasseri (Ladane Nasseri) recommends an excerpt from Salar Abdoh’s “A Nearby Country Called Love,” in which a man reflects on growing up in the middle of the struggle between his father and brother. buff.ly/46WWWec
A Black Belt in Karate Doesn’t Make a Fair Father electricliterature.com/a-nearby-count… via @electriclit with thanks to Ladane Nasseri on the brilliant intro to a brilliant selection from Salar Abdoh; best contact at: [email protected] 's novel, A NEARBY COUNTRY CALLED LOVE, publishing tomorrow from Viking Books Dystel, Goderich & Bourret
It meant a lot to me to write this story for The Atlantic about historic Freedmen’s Town in Houston, the city where I was born. Elbert D. Howze, a Black war veteran and photographer documented the area before much of it was lost to development. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
Ladane Nasseri (Ladane Nasseri) talks with “A Nearby Country Called Love” author Salar Abdoh (Salar Abdoh; best contact at: [email protected]) about writing outside his comfort zone and portraying Iran and Iranian life as it is. buff.ly/3MHSYyd
My beloved MFA student Mosab Abu Toha was arrested in #Gaza yesterday by the IDF. I know him to be an honorable man, husband & father of 3 kids, a decorated poet who came to us from Harvard. No one cares wot I think, but I demand his release, by all that is just&holy. The New Yorker
I have had the most amazing four years at the LA Times. My colleagues are smart, tireless, selfless — a real team. It looks like that time has come to an end. I wish all of them the best as I look for a new landing place. Hit me up if you know of any: [email protected].
Ladane Nasseri (Ladane Nasseri) talks with Hisham Matar (Hisham Matar) about his latest novel “My Friends,” male friendship, and needing both passion and ambivalent distance from historical events in order to write about them with truth and nuance. buff.ly/42kjbcM
Fascinating interview by Ladane Nasseri with novelist Hisham Matar "Hisham Matar on Writing Male Friendships" electricliterature.com/hisham-matar-n… via Electric Literature
