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 /  New York

'Tehran Noir' and 'Tehran at Twilight' (Complete)

NEW YORK, November 17, 2014 — Salar Abdoh, author of the novel Tehran at Twilight and editor of the new anthology Tehran Noir, joins poet, author, and activist Roya Hakakian for a talk in which they look at crime and mystery fiction as a lens onto contemporary Iranian society. (1 hr., 28 min.)

Read Salar Abdoh's foreword to Tehran Noir
Shop AsiaStore for books by Salar Abdoh and Roya Hakakian

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 /  New York

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 /  Seattle

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 /  Japan

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 /  Korea

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 /  New York

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 /  New York

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 /  New York

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 /  Switzerland

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