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2022:

“What’s Happening in Iran is Not a Local Story”: Meet Filmmaker Mahyad Tousi (Interview Magazine)

How Iranians in New York Are Helping the Protests Abroad (NYTimes)

What Inspired Two Iranian Immigrants to Start a Global Film Series (NYTimes)

N.Y.C Schools Reopen With Focus on Recovery From Pandemic Losses (NYTimes, reporting credit)

The Climate Crisis Spells Big Business for Carbon Capture (Texas Monthly)

A Day at the Races in Presidio (Texas Monthly)

The Invisible Scrubbers at the Bottom of the Gowanus (Curbed, New York Magazine)


2021:

How Growing Up in New York After 9/11 Shaped These Muslim Leaders (NYTimes)

No Cars on Sidewalks. Unless You’re N.Y.P.D (NYTimes)

She Kept a Library Book for 63 Years. It Was Time to Return It. (NYTimes)

In Search of Lost Smell and Taste (The Believer)


2020:

How a Sous Chef Turned Fried Chicken Master Spends His Sundays (NYTimes)

Surviving on Hot Plates and Takeout: 73 Days Without Cooking Gas (NYTimes)

Inshallah: The Perfect Phrase for this Relentless Year (NYTimes)

Why New York Comedy Has Gone Underground (NYTimes)

Could New York Finally Become a Bike City? (NYTimes)

How the Stoop and the Sidewalk Helped New Yorkers Stay Sane (NYTimes)

Meet the Neighbors (NYTimes)

Is It Time for Americans to Embrace the Bidet? (NYTimes)

La Harmonia (Stranger’s Guide)

Marfa’s Answer to the Collapse of Local News: Coffee and Cocktails (NYTimes)


2019:

The Magic of Dowsing Keeps Holding On (The Atlantic)

Modern Love: My Father Has a Second Family in His Bedroom (NYTimes)

Reimagining the ‘70s Tehran Music Scene, One Party at a Time (NYTimes)

The Camel Experiment (Oxford American, spring 2019 issue)


2018:

In a Texas Art Mecca, Humble Adobe Now Carries a High Cost (NYTimes)

The Grunts of the System (Harper’s)

‘Franny and Zooey’ in Iran (the Paris Review)

Somewhere it Hides a Well (Texas Observer)

In Presidio, a New Public Art Project Crosses Borders (Texas Observer)

In West Texas, the U.S. - Mexico Border Disappeared for a Day (The Nation)

In ‘Homelands’ Alfredo Corchado Punctures the Myth of the American Dream (Texas Observer)

U.S. Attorney in West Texas Drops ‘Zero-Tolerance’ Charges Against Migrants Who Came With Children (TIME)

Love Letter to Tacos de Tripas (Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown)


2017:

In El Paso, Demonstrators stress connection between women’s rights and immigrants’ rights (Texas Observer)

For Texas Pronghorn, an Unusual 500-Mile Journey (Texas Observer)

The Tragic Story of a Texas Teen and the Marines who Killed Him for No Reason (Splinter)

We Need to Talk about the MTA’s Sexual Assault Problem (Splinter)

A Sacred, Sullied Space (The Revealer)

What it’s Like to be a Female Border Patrol Agent (Marie Claire)

Best of 2017 Crime Reporting (Longreads)


2016:

A Death in West Texas (Texas Monthly)

Ranch Owner Recalls Finding Justice Antonin Scalia’s Body (NYTimes, contributed reporting)

The Cost of Justice (Texas Monthly)

Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself (Texas Monthly)

Juarez Gets Ready for Pope, Showcases Progress After Violence (NBC News)

Pope’s Juarez Mass a Blessing for Victims of Violence (NBC News)

A Smiling Pope Francis Will ‘Live’ in Juarez through this Sculpture (NBC News)

Standing Rock Pipeline Fight Draws Hundreds to North Dakota Plains (NBC News)

Inspired by Standing Rock, West Texans Take Action to Fight Another Pipeline (The Nation)

Meet Donald Trump’s Feng Shui Master (The Guardian)

Frontier fiesta Shows the Folly of U.S. - Mexico Border Controls (Splinter)

Meet Los Diablos: the Mexican firefighters who chase flames across the U.S. - Mexico Border (Splinter)

When Immigration Status is Used as a Weapon for Abuse (Splinter)

Texas border town fears its economic future under Trump (Splinter)

The Business of Burying Horses (Texas Observer)

Crossing Over (Texas Observer)

‘I Wish I Could Vote’: An Ex-Felon’s Election Day (Texas Observer)

‘The Presidential Campaign Makes no Difference Here’: Election Day in Presidio (Texas Observer)

Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself (Longform, featured from original Texas Monthly article)


2014/ 2015:

Documenting the Vanishing Rio Grande (VICE)

Mexico Wants to Run a Pipeline Through West Texas (VICE)

Border Agency Employee Tells Trick-or-Treaters Candy is Only for Americans (VICE)

A Texas Pipeline’s Controversial Path (NBC News)

Western Block: One Woman’s Quest for Citizenship (Texas Observer)