Dina Nayeri @DinaNayeri Twitter profile

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

5 years

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

Christiane Amanpour

@amanpour

5 years

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".

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

5 years

Liz can you please, before every interaction and each time you speak publicly, just go ahead and condemn Timothy McVeigh from the Oklahoma City bombing? It was important to me because I lived there at the time, and you're both white Americans so not sure why you can't just do it

Liz Cheney

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5 years

Why is it so difficult for @IlhanMN to just condemn Hamas, Al Qaeda and FGM? It shouldn’t be complicated.

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Dina Nayeri

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2 years

Scottish friends, as an American teenager in the evangelical Bible Belt, and an Iranian schoolgirl forced under hijab in the Islamic Republic, may I offer advice? Do not believe fundamentalists who say they won’t impose their beliefs on others. They’re lying. #amyconeybarrett

Paul Hutcheon

@paulhutcheon

2 years

“For me, it would be wrong according to my faith.” SNP leadership contender Kate Forbes on having children outside marriage

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2 years

I don’t even know what to say to this. I feel pure rage. Poor sweet girl. #FreeIran

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1 year

@vauhinivara Hah we’re having tooth fairy tonight too! She lost the tooth just before bed and I literally took the pound coin from her own piggy bank bc we had no other cash around. There’s no winning with this

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

7 years

You say refugees don't work hard?? 4 languages on one board. How many did you learn simultaneously a month after you barely escaped with your life?

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

6 years

This was vile. #GeoffreyOwens didn't go FROM acting to his side job. Most artists have one. He still acts and he has a Yale degree. Good for him for taking a job where he can chat with people and run lines as he works. @FoxNews ⁩ you, tho, are pure trash

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

7 years

pinning this here, bc it's needed again. Stop asking people (refugees, POC) to be grateful to you! Why is this hard?

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

5 years

@Baddiel So smug. As a refugee, let me tell you, lady, that you’re rolling up the ladder behind you like the vile, entitled opportunist that you are. She has nothing to do with immigrants who have suffered. She’s just another entitled native-born with her lips glued to rich white asses

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

5 years

@davidmweissman @TennesseeChris Freddie Mercury

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

1 year

Very nervous about this one. I wrote today’s @gdnlongread @guardian about the cultural gulf b/w me and my mom, a baffling, wonderful person. Thank you @davidedgarwolf and who believes in ideas when they’re still shapeless & inexplicable 🙏🏽

Foreign mothers, foreign tongues: ‘In another universe, she could have been my friend’

The long read: Having grown up in different cultures with different expectations, my mother and I have often clashed. But as my daughter grows older, I have come to see our relationship in a differ...

www.theguardian.com

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

2 years

Go brave lady! Wear what you want. Show what you want ❤️

Yashar Ali 🐘

@yashar

2 years

An older woman in Iran with no head scarf and showing her legs. The women of Iran aren’t going back to the way things were prior to September. But wearing what they want is just one of many things Iranians are demanding. The Islamic Republic must end. #MahsaAmini #ZhinaAmini

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

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@NesrineMalik Iranian here. Learned English at 10. I used to say “my parents are just trying to make ends meet” but in my head was thinking “make end’s meat” as in the cheaper kind of meat that I thought we had to buy bc we were poor. From the cow’s “ends”….Thank god it sounded identical 🫣

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

1 year

I used to think all citizenship was equal. Imagine how fast she’d be whisked home if she were a blonde N. London girl who’d been trafficked & raped. Also, I don’t see the UK making white rapists and killers stateless as punishment.

The real scandal of the Shamima Begum citizenship case | Letters

Letters: Former supreme court justice Jonathan Sumption on last week’s ruling on the home secretary’s decision to deprive Begum of her citizenship. Plus letters from Ilina Todorovska, Owen Stewart,...

www.theguardian.com

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

2 years

Also just on the whole “sex is for marriage thing,” how joyless and dogmatic and unimaginative a belief system is that? “All sex must be co-signed by the government.” Ugh. The best sex is extramarital

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

2 years

Oh my heart

Nazanin Boniadi

@NazaninBoniadi

2 years

Young Baloch girls chanting “Azadi!” (freedom). The Iranian city of Zahedan has sustained 5 months of anti-government protests. #WomanLifeFreedom #MahsaAmini

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

5 years

Speaking for my own 40+ coven, our plan is: Write books. Drink wine. Travel. Date everyone. Work on poverty. Work on human rights. Work on migration justice. Win some of those pesky prizes old men have been hoarding bc their dutiful wives have wiped their asses for 40 years.

Stefan Molyneux, MA

@StefanMolyneux

5 years

Women get mostly infertile at 40, but live to be 80. Without a family, what are you going to do with those 40 long long years?

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@DinaNayeri

6 years

"A feminist is a person who, instead of being the docile pet of their generation, rears back and bares their teeth. The idea that we no longer need feminism is absurd — it’s the equivalent of technology stopping at the floppy disc."

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

2 years

@ElyKreimendahl Oh but isn’t it glorious to be feral and alone? I used to sit on the floor of my nyc studio in my underwear at 2am wolfing down a diner burger and watching Netflix, not even wiping that dollop of ketchup off my belly. Hands down, my most attractive

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

2 years

I did 1st-3rd grade in Iran. forced hijab, lines of girls chanting. Ppl ask why I’m fixated on school in IRI. An editor once said “you wrote that already” She meant iran stories for the west. Appalling. YOU try this for 3 formative years & see how long u think about it. #FreeIran

Masih Alinejad 🏳️

@AlinejadMasih

2 years

The dictator of Iran, Khamenei, is seen brainwashing young girls. It reminds me of my childhood. This regime took us, women of Iran, hostage from the age of seven and wrote its own ideology on our bodies. The free world must take a strong action against this child abuse.

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7 years

@LibyaLiberty Exactly! Women who choose hijab should be 100% for this. Because it's not about hijab. It's about taking the choice out of the hands of men (or anyone really)

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

2 years

This is frightening

Yashar Ali 🐘

@yashar

2 years

Iranian journalists Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi have been held in solitary confinement for over 30 days for reporting on Mahsa Zhina Amini’s death and funeral. Today, the Islamic Republic falsely said they are foreign agents in order to justify punishing them harshly.

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

7 years

@CharlesMBlow I don't know what's grosser, her clunky writing or flinging about those three black people she knows

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

1 year

@raventbrunner Also the part where she accused him of dodging when he was trying to describe complex human things. Poor guy (bless him for thinking the Lacheys would engage with “it’s ineffable”)

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

5 years

Our mutual agent hasn't stopped emailing me about @BlairBraverman for two weeks. I'm pretty sure she walked around NYC with the live feed always running. And now she's made me into a crazed fan too. Incredible job, Blair!

Blair Braverman

@BlairBraverman

5 years

It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. And also the most beautiful. The dogs and I took care of each other the whole way. Stories to come, but for now we plan to nap (and eat) for days. All dogs and humans are doing great. xoxo

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Dina Nayeri

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5 years

@chung_catherine @rokwon Oh oh ladies i got another one: once a guy asked to see "the egg." As in, women expel an egg with each period. He thought it would literally be some version of this 🥚

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

7 years

Haunting art by refugees at Katsikas @RefugeeSupportE

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

7 years

I love how in arguments men say "everyone says this or that" and by everyone they pretty much always mean their mom

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

1 year

Brilliant review in @GuardianBooks (and book of the day!) this morning! #WhoGetsBelieved “will cement Nayeri’s position as a master storyteller of the refugee experience.” Such an intelligent, attentive, and thoughtful read. Thank you @aamnamohdin

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

2 years

This is appalling. The Swiss ambassador legitimizing the IRI and forced hijab at a time when Iranians are murdered, beaten, begging for help to free themselves. #WomanLifeFreedom #FreeIran

Nazanin Boniadi

@NazaninBoniadi

2 years

Western lawmakers often ask us how they can best support the people of Iran. The Swiss ambassador in full conservative religious covering — amidst cries of #WomanLifeFreedom , while brave Iranian women risk everything for freedom — is exactly what you should NOT do.

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5 years

@chung_catherine @rokwon Oh god, once in business school a guy who had degrees from Harvard and the best uni in Italy casually mentioned that fetuses live off their mother's URINE! I died laughing on that cafe floor while he was all "what'd I say?"

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

2 years

Thank you @BBCScotland @staenglish @univofstandrews @UStAResearch @WalkerBooksUK for making our UK schools project possible. Listening to these kids talk about kindness and welcome I’m overcome w/ pride and hope. Thank you @CraigmountHS for the welcome #thewaitingplace

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2 years

I think it’s the sleeplessness but I can’t stop laughing at this 😆

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5 years

@chung_catherine @rokwon Girl, he wanted me to fish it out of a period pad like it would just be sitting there all cute and stuff 🤢

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

5 years

Best part of #TheGreatHack (aside from the amazing @carolecadwalla ) is @profcarroll 's gleeful facial expressions every time shit happens. (Sidenote: why is Brittany Kaiser talking on camera about her various moral contortions in an infinity pool "somewhere in Thailand"? Girl ick)

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Dina Nayeri

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5 years

An event I'm particularly looking forward to, a talk just before @RefugeeWeek with @fbhutto about #TheRunaways and #TheUngratefulRefugee

Foyles Bookshop

@Foyles

5 years

Ahead of this year’s @RefugeeWeek we welcome authors @fbhutto and @DinaNayeri as they introduce their new books #TheRunaways @VikingBooksUK and #TheUngratefulRefugee @canongatebooks —Tuesday 11th June, Charing Cross Road:

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Dina Nayeri

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6 years

Look at this beauty! Two weeks early! #therunaways @fbhutto

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@DinaNayeri

5 years

My fave moment at @hayfestival (up there w/ meeting @Baddiel who really listened to me about Iran and refugees) was getting to tell a roomful of kind people what refugee charities to support. I had hoped it would make @hayfestival highlights but maybe you can get the word out 1/

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Dina Nayeri

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@RobGMacfarlane @Arron_banks Oh my god this is so gross I had to read it three times to make sure I understood his meaning! She's a baby, you monster

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

2 years

3am. Awake w/panic again. I left socials in 2019 after #theungratefulrefugee bc of my anxiety. Now #whogetsbelieved is out in a month & nights are a battle again. Fear of judgment, strangers reading naked thoughts I wrote a safe while ago. Anyone else up w/ nightmares? Tell me

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Dina Nayeri

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2 years

I agree. She was a young girl who made an awful, juvenile mistake that she’ll pay for her entire life. She should be tried here. Other British who have committed crimes don’t have their citizenship stripped away, especially if they’re vulnerable to further abuse

Owen Jones

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2 years

Bring Shamima Begum home. She's British. She needs to be tried as a Brit. I don't care how unpopular this argument is - it's the right one 👇

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5 years

@chung_catherine @rokwon Oh. My. Word! 😨😨I always marveled at the whole "finding the clitoris" business with men. I mean it's just right there. There it went... right there... first thing you see

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

1 year

Love this! And how amazing is the Italian title of The Ungrateful Refugee. L’Ingrata

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

5 years

impeachment starting in US and unprecedented Supreme Court ruling against Boris’s insane effort to shut down parliament.... could things be turning around? Is the age of the xenophobic bleached potato men over? Oh please god....

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

7 months

This headline is grotesque.

Yashar Ali 🐘

@yashar

7 months

This AP headline and subhead are infuriating… entirely picking up the Islamic Republic’s propaganda and nothing about the fact that these four Kurdish dissidents were denied the most basic human rights and forced to confess on television. There is NO mention in the article

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7 years

My next @guardian #longreads Yearning for the end of the world

Yearning for the end of the world

The long read: As a child in Iran, Dina Nayeri belonged to a secret Christian church where the Rapture was welcomed as a rescue. Later, as a refugee in the US, she saw how apocalyptic prophecies...

www.theguardian.com

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Dina Nayeri

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1 year

Elena (my 7 y.o.) has an idea for a restaurant called “Dip it!” It would serve finger foods with ketchup and other dips. I asked about the slogan, and she said (after a thoughtful pause): “make sure it’s dipped.” I’m going to quit everything and pursue this bc it’s genius

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7 years

On my way to two refugee camps in Greece, one very new. First time in one since I was an asylum seeker myself. Nervous. Happy to be in the hands of @RefugeeSupportE

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

2 years

This is the beautiful US jacket for #whogetsbelieved by the supremely talented @NLCaputo at @CatapultStory coming in March. I’m so proud of this book. Quotes and UK jacket coming soon!

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

1 year

I love this so much. Pure joy from his whole professional community. Imagine all the other talented refugee children turned away by heartless policies, whose dormant talents and gifts we’ll never know

Brian Krassenstein

@krassenstein

1 year

BREAKING: Ke Huy Quan just won an #Oscar at the Academy Awards for best supporting actor for his role in 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' "Mom, I just won an Oscar!!" For those unaware Ke Huy Quan spent a year with his family in a Hong Kong refugee camp before arriving in

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5 years

@summerbrennan I’m sitting on a Paris train right now with my fresh baked morning baguette on my way to the office and have never been happier. Its smell alone is improving my concentration

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2 years

“An important, courageous, brilliant book.” Thank you @RobGMacfarlane for these gorgeous words. And thank you @HarvillSecker for a stunning UK jacket for #Whogetsbelieved . Spotlights! I love the ways different artists interpreted this book. More words (and German cover) soon

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

5 years

No, I think we should just tax you and your friends. A lot. Until everyone living in America (with or without papers) is rolling in healthcare and you have to gavage your own ducks.

Donald Trump Jr.

@DonaldJTrumpJr

5 years

Since his plan includesfree healthcare for Illegal Immigrants I wonder if they will point out that they willing raise middle America’s taxes to pay for those who don’t pay into the system? I imagine hard working Americans would prefer their taxes to be spent on their families!

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Dina Nayeri

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1 year

A piece I wrote about Iranian values (spoiler: diverse, modern, and want freedom and a secular democracy as much as you) and the journey to be believed by @AmmarMaleki and @ptamimiarab of @gamaanresearch for @globeandmail #MahsaAmini ‌ #FreeIran2023 @NazaninBoniadi @AlinejadMasih

The Globe and Mail

@globeandmail

1 year

The true nature of Iranian values: Rethinking a country the West thought it understood

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@DinaNayeri

6 years

@pronounced_ing Funny how they'd never even consider polyandry though

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5 years

@IlhanMN

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@DinaNayeri

5 years

Dear friends, an excerpt of #theungratefulrefugee is now up at @GrantaMag ! I'm so honored and hope you will read it, share it, pre-order, and say nice things on goodreads, Amazon, or wherever you like to say nice things.

The Ungrateful Refugee | Dina Nayeri | Granta

‘I was born in 1979, a year of revolution, and grew up in wartime.’ Dina Nayeri on growing up in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

granta.com

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Dina Nayeri

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5 years

I’m so honored to tell you that #theungratefulrefugee is a finalist for THE KIRKUS PRIZE!!! Thank you so much ⁦ @KirkusReviews ⁩ ! I’m so moved. And such good company! 2019 Finalists: nonfiction | Kirkus Reviews

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

6 years

@fbhutto Amen to that. An Argo. I want an apology for Argo

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

7 years

@arishapiro I was very nervous for our interview. Your responses were so kind and in step with my energy and personality. Afterward I thought "wow Ari really gets to know each guest with his intellect and humor and heart." Please don't change a syllable for some basement troll

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

1 year

I wrote a response to the UK’s “illegal migration bill” for @englishpen #pentransmissions and @CounterArts . All my life people have trampled over simple humanitarian values with the argument that it’s all so much more complicated than that. To them I say:

It’s More Complicated Than That…

Dina Nayeri responds to the proposed ‘Illegal Migration Bill’.

pentransmissions.com

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2 years

Last night my 7 y.o. “Mummy, you know that feeling when a boy is too handsome and you don’t want to marry him anymore, you just want to kiss him one time?” So I ask who the boy is and if he’s smart. She says “no stop it! he’s just a dumb dude” 😆

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

7 years

Wow this thread...

Hugo Rifkind

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I don't normally retweet stuff like this, but this long thread might be useful for anybody still wondering whether the US alt.right truly are Nazis. Conclusion: totally.

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@rebeccamakkai @viet_t_nguyen So this isn't western but my Iranian mom went to Thailand for peace corps. She calls me the first night, "Dina everybody calls everybody Kun here! It's a respectful title. I refuse to say it." In Farsi, Kun means ass. The next day she calls "so my new boss is called Kun Porn"

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6 years

It's not over. Please don't look away

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6 years

It's heartbreaking looking at her face now that I have a daughter who looks so much like her. Rest In Peace, creative girl

Jeffrey Guterman

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6 years

On this date September 3 in 1944, the last transport of Jews left Westerbork transit camp in occupied Netherlands to Nazi Auschwitz concentration camp, incl. Anne Frank & her family. Photograph: Anne Frank in 1940, in public domain. #NeverForget @AuschwitzMuseum @AnneFrankCenter

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@omarqazi @jereichwrites @rgay I love it when this happens on twitter. Polite people actually fixing a misunderstanding. I wish it happened more

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@DinaNayeri

1 year

Eeek… I can’t sleep!

Catapult

@CatapultStory

1 year

WHO GETS BELIEVED? the urgent new book about truth, story and bureacracy by @dinanayeri is out T~O~M~O~R~R~O~W!

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@DinaNayeri

7 years

"In the entire history of Iran, no one has walked into a school and started killing children. But, sure, we're the terrorists." - anonymous older relative

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@DinaNayeri

7 months

Oh my GOD!! This book broke my heart in a thousand ways but this @bookcritics finalist nomination makes everything worthwhile. Thank you!! @CatapultStory @HarvillSecker @KAndersonbird @GeorginaCapel and everyone! @JeffSharlet I’m rooting for you!!!

National Book Critics Circle

@bookcritics

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The finalists for the NBCC Award for Nonfiction are Roxanna Asgarian, Kerry Howley, Jeff Sharlet, Christina Sharpe, and Dina Nayeri.

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I hate that the idiotic #shithole talk has made everyone go back to the "but we get the brightest people, immigrants add so much" argument. That's true, but if they're ordinary folks from the worst places, that's MORE reason to take them in bc we're born luckier and they need us

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5 years

So there goes Scotland and London as the European financial capital and open border w/ Ireland and a strong pound and reasonably priced house renovations and cheap tomatoes in January and cheap easy trips to Europe. All bc they‘re afraid of a few foreign accents... what a sad day

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“everyone was talking about impostor syndrome and “the confidence gap,” but no one was talking about gender bias and systemic racism.” Amazing piece by ⁦ @lsjamison ⁩ in ⁦ @NewYorker ⁩

Why Everyone Feels Like They’re Faking It

The concept of Impostor Syndrome has become ubiquitous. Critics, and even the idea’s originators, question its value.

www.newyorker.com

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@DinaNayeri

5 years

From 2017... the first time I finally let it all out on the expectation for refugees to posture gratitude and on the obligations of those born lucky to those born in ravaged places

The Guardian Long Read

@gdnlongread

5 years

One from our archive by @DinaNayeri : The ungrateful refugee

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@DinaNayeri

5 years

No need to pray for her. Who pays is a joint decision. Text. Yeah okay, do brush your teeth. Don’t rape. Don’t harass. Don’t get aggressive if she says no. That’s it dude.

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

7 years

@rgay Maybe some are scared. For every email from an editor or hiring committee or kindhearted reader, you have 20 trolls, crazies, stalkers, and creeps. I get so many from Christians who want to convert me back

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@DinaNayeri

5 years

Refugee week starts Monday!! I'm daunted by my schedule next week but also SO EXCITED to tell everyone why @RefugeeWeek is so important

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@DinaNayeri

5 years

I'm about to go on @AmanpourCoPBS live with @camanpour at 6pm BST on @CNN 1pm EST @PBS . Tune in to see me swallow a kilowatt of nervous energy. I mean, remember how every semi ambitious, creative, extroverted young adult of the late 90s wanted to be Amanpour? Yeah me too.

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This is the most incredible honor. You have made my dreary day in airports so joyful! Sidenote: all my literary life I knew @KirkusReviews to be tough critics. If they love you, it means you’ve done it right. So this... man it feels like an A to my inner nerdling

Tom Beer

@TomBeerBooks

5 years

Just a little news to share this morning: The 2019 #KirkusPrize finalists have been announced, and what a list!

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“Is it memoir? Criticism? Journalism? … it’s a juggernaut of a work that forces readers to rethink on whom we bestow credibility, and why. It’s an important book, and the best thing may be to shelve a copy in every section of the store.” ❤️❤️

Washington Independent Review of Books

@WIRoBooks

1 year

Today, @GC_Lida reviews @DinaNayeri 's "juggernaut of a work," WHO GETS BELIEVED?: WHEN THE TRUTH ISN'T ENOUGH ( @CatapultStory ):

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

2 years

@hollavansary @mamueca Once an editor struck out my favorite line, I put it back. Next draft, she annotates that line “love this!” (To be fair to her and make this tweet way less fun, I did cut the line preceding it. So maybe it had just been redundant… meh)

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@DinaNayeri

5 years

A weird story I wrote for the @guardian 'I wouldn't be the refugee, I'd be the girl who kicked ass': how taekwondo made me | Sport | The Guardian

'I wouldn't be the refugee, I'd be the girl who kicked ass': how taekwondo made me

The long read: When she arrived in the US as a 10-year-old refugee, Dina Nayeri found it hard to fit in. But that all changed when she hatched a plan to get into Harvard – by becoming a taekwondo...

www.theguardian.com

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@DinaNayeri

5 years

@yashar She’s vile. and zero self awareness re immigration. She believes she’s earned everything she has on pure merit (which no one on earth has done). She’s dangerous and grossly selfish. And she can’t speak or write for shit

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

1 year

Thank you @PortyBooks @rkrystalli and the literary Edinburgh (my new friends ❤️) for making me so welcome last night. It was so good to see so many friendly faces, my students @Chitgrrl @annaframe @kimtsherwood @NickPSH @JonCG and lots of others. Feeling very grateful today

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

6 years

@rokwon ❤️👌🏼you're amazing! this is also encouraging to those of us who married early, learned things about ourselves very late, and have old world parents who don't wanna know any of it. So thanks for being brave

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@DinaNayeri

5 years

I want one that says: WE ARE IRANIAN GRANDMAS WE SMELL LIKE TURMERIC CHICKEN WE HIDE OUR OPIUM IN THE SPICE JAR WE CAN HIKE A MOUNTAIN WITH A POT OF BUTTER BASMATI STRAPPED TO OUR BACKS AND IF YOU DONT LIKE IT, Have another baghlava with that tea azizam, you're skin and bones!

The Second Shelf

@secondshelfbks

5 years

WE ARE LADYBOOK SELLERS WE TAKE THE TUBE WE EAT WHATEVER WE WANT AND WE LIKE TEARING DOWN THE PATRIARCHY if you don't like it YOU WOULDN'T BE THE FIRST Respectfully GET THE FUCK OUT OF OUR WAY.

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

1 year

This is me and my excellent @staenglish @WaitingPlaceStA team labeling and shipping the last of 5800 donated books to children across the UK! I’m so proud of this university @univofstandrews @UStAResearch

The Waiting Place Schools Project

@WaitingPlaceStA

1 year

Over 200 more boxes of books have been sent! Thank you to everyone who helped make this happen, especially @staenglish !

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@DinaNayeri

5 years

@rgay You need Persian food! Santa Monica has so many Iranians. I think there's one there called Javan that's just delicious.

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@DinaNayeri

6 years

Many thanks to @lithub for publishing my thoughts on the language of toddlers and the irreparable damage to those poor kids in border cages. And thanks @carlawaslike and @firetoge for the encouragement Dina Nayeri on Family Separation via @lithub

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1 year

Brilliant review in @GuardianBooks (and book of the day!) this morning! #WhoGetsBelieved “will cement Nayeri’s position as a master storyteller of the refugee experience.” Such an intelligent, attentive, and thoughtful read. Thank you @aamnamohdin

Who Gets Believed? by Dina Nayeri review – the Kafkaesque ordeal faced by refugees

The author uses her first-hand experience of migration to examine the flaws and hypocrisies of the asylum system

amp.theguardian.com

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1 year

Today at Reykjavik International literary festival. Talked about #IranRevoIution and @gamaanresearch and the beauties of Iran

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@DinaNayeri

5 years

My response to the attacks on @IlhanMN by Carlson and Trump. Thank you @Slate #theungratefulrefugee @CatapultStory Why Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson are so scared of Ilhan Omar. via @slate

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

5 years

Nice try John, but I said "in every interaction and each time you speak in public." If once was enough we wouldn't be talking about this.

John Gray

@JTAG32

5 years

@DinaNayeri I condemn him. Your turn.

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@DinaNayeri

1 year

This was magic

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@DinaNayeri

5 years

"Dina Nayeri’s The Ungrateful Refugee is a work of astonishing, insistent importance." 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 thank you @ObserverUK @ahmpreston @canongatebooks @CatapultStory and please go out and buy the incredible books by @refugeetales @jdportes and @jonbloomfield2

Alex Preston

@ahmpreston

5 years

In today’s Observer, I write about the refugee crisis and four hugely important books from ⁦ @DinaNayeri ⁩, ⁦ @jdportes , ⁦ @RefugeeTales ⁩ and ⁦ @jonbloomfield2 ⁩. Please do read and RT.

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

6 years

Excellent essay by @fbhutto . This isn't a triumph like joy luck club with its layered histories and array of origin stories. It's another celebration of the filthy rich, like SATC2 Crazy Rich Asians is no racial triumph. It's a soulless salute to the 1%

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@DinaNayeri

2 years

New respect for @jes_chastain . I’d add that some media are afraid that criticizing a brutal dictatorship will expose them to accusations of Islamophobia (only in bad faith by morons and IRI apologists). Millions of Muslims are hurting and need our help getting a #FreeIran

Jonathan Harounoff

@JonathanHaroun1

2 years

Hollywood actress Jessica Chastain ( @jes_chastain ) argues that the reason the US media hasn’t covered the transformative protests in #Iran enough is because “it’s a women-led revolution and we’re not ready to see that.” #MahsaAmini #زن_زندگی_آزادی

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@DinaNayeri

1 year

@Joseph_Fasano_ Love and other indoor sports

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Dina Nayeri

@DinaNayeri

2 years

Friends, if you’re inclined to help, or curious about what I’ve been up to these past few years, please pre-order #whogetsbelieved from your favorite bookseller! @CatapultStory @HarvillSecker

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