NIAC is honored to join peace activists and organizations in partnership with We Are Many, to offer our members a chance to watch a timely and important documentary film about the largest organized an...
We're pleased to offer NIAC members the opportunity to rent a new riveting documentary film, Desert One, ahead of its general release date! The film opens up an important dialogue to discuss the histo...
The California Department of Education’s Ethnic Studies program is at risk of excluding several marginalized communities, including Iranian Americans. Despite a well rounded program written by s...
Join NIAC members on July 30th as we come together for one common purpose: to build political power so that we can advance peace and diplomacy, secure equitable immigration policies, and protect the c...
Mana and Assal sat down with Saint Paul Councilwoman, organizer, and former teacher Mitra Jalali one month after the brutal killing of George Floyd at the hands of police. Mitra spoke of her own expe...
Continuing our series of conversations with authors featured in "My Shadow is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora," Assal and Mana chat with Dr. Persis Karim, who contributed an essay and the fo...
In our final chat with authors featured in "My Shadow is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora," Mana and Assal sit down with Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh. Her essay, "My Mom Killed Michael Jackson," exp...
For Iranians and the diaspora, one story that is central to our shared identity is the 11th century epic by Ferdowsi, Shahnameh (The Book of Kings). Recollecting the heroic tales and fantastic legends...
Jamal, Ryan and Sina discuss The New Yorker piece "Twilight of the Revolution" and a proposal from the rightwing organization JINSA urging Trump to officially pursue "regime collapse" in Iran. T...
For the second part in our series of conversations with the authors featured in "My Shadow Is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora," Assal sat down with Darius Atefat-Peckham, an up and coming po...
A new anthology, "My Shadow Is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora," presents 30 essays on the Iranian-American experience from a range of authors. Mana and Assal speak with the editors, Katheri...
In a new anthology of essays from the Iranian-American diaspora, My Shadow is My Skin, editors Leila Emery and Katherine Whitney bring together 32 authors of various backgrounds to tell their stories....