Salar Abdoh

Professor & Deputy Chair

Director of Undergraduate Creative Writing

Main Affiliation

English

Areas of Expertise/Research

  • Espionage & Noir Fiction
  • Literary Fiction
  • Middle East & North Africa History
  • Persian & Arabic Literature
  • Personal Essay
  • Travel Literature
  • War & Combat Journalism

Building

North Academic Center

Office

6/352

Fax

212-650-6371

Salar Abdoh

About

Salar Abdoh’s forthcoming novel is A Nearby Country Called Love (Viking Penguin, Fall 2023). His last book, Out of Mesopotamia (Akashic, 2020), has been hailed as “One of a handful of great modern war novels,” and was a NYTimes Editors’ Choice, and also selected as a Best Book of the year across several platforms, including Publishers Weekly. He is also the author of Tehran At Twilight, Opium, and The Poet Game, and editor and translator of the celebrated crime collection, Tehran Noir.

Mostly dividing his time between New York City and Tehran, Iran, Salar regularly publishes personal essays and short stories, plus numerous translations of other authors that appear in journals across the world.

A professor at the City University of New York’s City College campus in Harlem, he conducts workshops in the English Department’s MFA program and also directs undergraduate creative writing. 

Website: salarabdoh.com