Dina Nayeri

A Happy Death (March 9 2027) ✏️

[Dina Nayeri @DinaNayeri]

I just checked something off my bucket list. New bucket list items: write another book. talk to @camanpour again.

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

Trump thinks refugees "should be second class citizens, always quiet, bowing, grateful... When I was a child, people told me all the time, 'You must be so grateful,' or of course, 'Why don't you go back where you came from?'" – @DinaNayeri, author of "The Ungrateful Refugee".

[English PEN @englishpen]

We are thrilled to announce our new annual literary prize, the PEN Heaney Prize, in partnership with @PENIreland & @seamusheaneyest.

Publisher submissions are open from now until 3 June.
https://t.co/VlKQRs2ZNO

[Dina Nayeri @DinaNayeri]

@franklinleonard We did too!! I was one of several Marcia Clarks and I slept in rollers for it.

[Dina Nayeri @DinaNayeri]

@annaframe That’s 💯 true. So pretty this room!

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Watch this video to the end and sing with us.
It was an emotional and powerful moment for me to meet more than 45 amazing women of Iran and Afghanistan who joined United Against Gender Apartheid campaign in our first Zoom meeting.

In this campaign, women are telling the stories of the crimes committed against them by the Taliban and the Islamic Republic in order to mobilize women across the globe to hear our testimony and join us to criminalize gender apartheid.

I deeply believe that women of Iran and Afghanistan should sit together, laugh and cry and sing together, and be united against Talib and Mullahs in practice. Because it has been years that dictators divided us.
The participants in the campaign each introduced themselves. Prominent Iranian and Afghan women activists attended this meeting.

The participants in this meeting those who experience torture in prison, those who lost their eyes and arms during uprising, LGBTQ+ activists, Kurdish and Baloch human rights activists, Iranian and Afghan activists, all told stories of their experiences of torture, imprisonment, murder and execution of their families.

The meeting started with an emphasis on narrating one’s stories and its significance in relation to documentation of gender apartheid crimes and continued and ended with the all-encompassing accounts of the women participating in the meeting.

At the end, all the women in the meeting emphasized the necessity for unity and solidarity amongst women of different social groups and backgrounds from Iran and Afghanistan, and requested the expansion of this campaign and the continuation of its meetings.
We are all wounded, but unbreakable and unbowed to our oppressors.
#UnitedAgainstGenderApartheid

[Maham Malik @MahamO_o]

Reading @DinaNayeri, relieved to know that several others have also been fooled and seduced and coerced by nostalgia, but from a safe distance. Beware o wanderer, the road is walking too.

[Dina Nayeri @DinaNayeri]

@MahamO_o I’m constantly in the grip of nostalgia… Thank you for reading!

[Jamil Jan Kochai @JamilJanKochai]

Please consider donating to our fundraiser for Afghanistan! This is our fourth year in a row and Alhamdullilah the generosity of friends and strangers clothed and fed hundreds of needy Afghan families. I'll be posting pics from our past fundraisers too. https://t.co/jcXa4qVCy0

[UNHCR United Kingdom @UNHCRUK]

Engineers
Coders
Teachers
Scholars
Lawyers
Mechanics
Architects
Doctors
Nurses
Midwives
Advocates

Refugee women are building and rebuilding the world, and paving the way for a sustainable future.

We must #InvestInWomen if we want to live in a better world.

[Dina Nayeri @DinaNayeri]

@RobGMacfarlane @HamishH1931 I’m so in awe (and totally envious) of your connection to the natural world. And the magical way you write about it. Can’t wait to read this! ❤️

[Dina Nayeri @DinaNayeri]

Because Iran is a country of modern, mostly secular-living people of all faith backgrounds (Muslim included) controlled by a brutal theocracy who doesn’t care that much about faith either, just money and power.

[Arash Azizi آرش عزیزی @arash_tehran]

Egyptian man visits Iran in Ramadan and is shocked at how Iranians care so little for fasting and other Muslim rules

[Dina Nayeri @DinaNayeri]

@AnnaKeesey @mdbell79 Thank you 😊

[Nazanin Boniadi @NazaninBoniadi]

Horrified to learn that my friend, prominent Iranian journalist @pouriazeraati was stabbed outside his home in London. While we wait for an investigation, I hope the @metpoliceuk takes the threats by the Islamic Republic to kill Iranian journalists in exile seriously. #JournalismIsNotACrime

[Nazanin Boniadi @NazaninBoniadi]

Get well soon, @pouriazeraati. More power to you 💚🤍❤️
#JournalismIsNotACrime
#IRGCterrorists

[Dina Nayeri @DinaNayeri]

@AnnaKeesey @mdbell79 No no your comment was fine! I wanted to clarify in case mine implied that I was just squeamish around gynos (more context: my mom was a gyno)😊 anyway it’s a warm and funny memory

[Dina Nayeri @DinaNayeri]

@AmericanGwyn Omg “night cheese” means eating cheese at night. Not any kind of weird emission. Eek 😬

[Dina Nayeri @DinaNayeri]

@AmericanGwyn Yeah for me this would be “crippling ocd. Narcissist in a fun way (ahem). I don’t always shower. Night cheese. Really ugly angry face. Short & shrinking. Slightly cross-eyed from below angle. Gaslight when cornered. I’ll write about you. Hermity.”

[Dina Nayeri @DinaNayeri]

@AnnaKeesey @mdbell79 I know. But they embodied my two big insecurities at the time: writing and sex, which were two kinds of vulnerability I craved and was just learning to do according to my own rules. I was young and scared and newly divorced from a deeply conservative person

[Dina Nayeri @DinaNayeri]

@mdbell79 My debut at Prairie Lights. In comes my gynecologist. Sits in the front row. Then, in comes Marilynne (the godmother herself) and sits beside her… and they start chatting! I do the event with both ladies (who each know too much) watching. All I think about is everybody’s cervix

[Footnote Press @WeAreFootnote]

Sabrin Hasbun (@HasbunSabrin) has won the inaugural Footnote x Counterpoints Writing Prize for writers from refugee and migrant backgrounds.

https://t.co/tZYMd4CHKj

[Footnote Press @WeAreFootnote]

Huge congratulations to Sabrin, and many thanks to our wonderful judges, @Elif_Safak , @philippesands and @DinaNayeri

Many congratulations also to our two incredible runners-up, Simon Weisz for his book Resolution, and Roxana Shirazi for Dead Iranian Girl.