# Laleh Khadivi

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A Discussion Over the 2014 State of the Union Address and a Conversation with Iranian-American Novelist, Laleh Khadivi

Joshua Landis and Suzette Grillot discuss the 2014 State of the Union address and some of the foreign policy objectives President Obama outlined in Tuesday night’s speech. Later, a conversation about migration and identity with Iranian-American novelist Laleh Khadivi, and Palestinian-American poet …

Never Invisible: An Iranian Woman’s Life Across the Twentieth Century

May 2, 2023 Speakers: Ladan Lari, Leila Pourhashemi, Abbas Milani, Kioumars Ghereghlou A discussion about "Never Invisible: An Iranian Woman’s Life Across the Twentieth Century" (Mage Publishers, 2023). Houri Mostofi Moghadam was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1919, descended on her mother’s side from Ir…

9: Can I Get A Witness: God and Faith in American Fiction

In this episode of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, novelists R.O. Kwon and Paul Harding and hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell discuss writing about God and faith. Readings for the Episode: ·      The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon ·      Tinkers and Enon by Paul Harding ·      Blind Spo…

Episode #78: Laleh Khadivi

Can AI create art? And is that the question we ought to be asking? On this episode of Rewrite Radio, author and filmmaker Laleh Khadivi urges listeners to remember, in an age of increasing artistic blurriness, the necessity of the individual human being’s creativity. She links the creative process …

Laleh Khadivi's Female Life on Planet Earth

Laleh Khadivi is the author of The Kurdish Trilogy. She is the recipient of a Whiting Award, a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, a Pushcart Prize and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. She lives in Oakland, California with her family and teaches fiction at the Univer…

Laleh Khadivi explores Female Life on Planet Earth

Iranian-American author Laleh Khadivi’s latest novel, Female Life on Planet Earth, centres on a mid-life woman, Heti, who comes up against some new information about her recently dead mum that questions everything she thought she knew about her. Or does it? From there, Laleh explores how an individ…

Auto-immune conditions, Author Laleh Khadivi, Women in football

A new study suggests that women going to the doctor with symptoms of auto-immune conditions are up to 74% more likely than men to be told their symptoms are psychological or psychosomatic. The research, published in the Lancet eClinicalMedicine journal, and led by the University of Cambridge and Un…

Weekend Woman's Hour: Navi Pillay, Women in tech, Caroline Hirons

Navanetham 'Navi' Pillay, a former International Criminal Court judge and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, has won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. She is the 21st female to win the award, and the first South African woman. Navi speaks to Nuala McGovern. In the programme's 80th year, w…

149: Divya Maniar – After Care: Fame, Influencer Culture & a Dark Literar

This week on In My Good Books, I'm joined by debut author Divya Maniar to discuss After Care, a darkly compelling novel exploring reality TV, influencer culture, social media and our desperate need to be seen. Grace was once a reality TV star, but two years after appearing on a dating show, her fam…