Aliyeh Ataei

Aliyeh Ataei is an Afghan writer born in 1981. A graduate of theater studies, she is an award-winning writer in Iran and the author of two novels and a short story collection, Dreams of the Hindu Kush. She currently lives in Tehran.

Malali and Me

By Aliyeh Ataei, translated from the Persian by Salar Abdoh May 31, 2022
Motherland was something without content or form, something utterly abstract — something that, in relation to a country like this, could only occupy the minds of those who’d never had it.