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Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

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Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

United States Iran

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi received her MFA from Brown University and teaches Literature and Creative Writing at Rhode Island School of Design. She has lived in Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Spain and the United States.

Articles by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

Literary Journeys Through Catalonia: A Trip Through El Camp de Tarragona

By Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi & Leonardo Francalanci

“Beyond the shadow of a doubt certain natural artefacts have a density, a mystery, an intensity we often find in works of art.” …

Literary Journeys through Catalonia: Searching for Mercè Rodoreda’s Barcelona

By Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi & Leonardo Francalanci

With Mercè Rodoreda’s novel La Placa del Diamant (translated as The Time of the Doves) in hand, we took a lulling hour-and-a-half train ride from Girona to the sprawling, modernist city…

Literary Journeys Through Catalonia: Through Josep Pla’s Empordà

By Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi & Leonardo Francalanci

“Landscape elucidates literature, because literature …

A New Series: Literary Journeys Through Catalonia

By Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi & Leonardo Francalanci

Throughout history writers have, again and again, undertaken journeys—journeys of the mind and actual journeys, traveling across their respective homelands as well as exploring more distant, foreign territories.…

Artists Talk: Israel/Palestine. An Interview with Raji Bathish

By Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi & Chana Morgenstern

In her latest dispatch for our Artists Talk: Israel/Palestine series, Azareen Van der Vliet speaks to Raji Bathish, a Palestinian poet, novelist, screenplay writer and cultural activist born in Nazareth.…

Artists Talk: Israel/Palestine. An Interview with Till Roeskens

By Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

In her latest dispatch for our Artists Talk: Israel/Palestine series, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi speaks to visual artist Till Roeskens, whose documentary film Videomappings: Aida, Palestine won the…

Artists Talk: Israel/Palestine: Politics and Art in Sheikh Jarrah

By Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi & Chana Morgenstern

I.On Friday afternoons the streets of Jerusalem begin to empty out. Friday is a holy day of rest for both the Muslims and the Jews of Jerusalem, and as the Jewish Sabbath is about to begin, the Muslims’…

Cross-Cultural Dialogues: In Response

By Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi & Chana Morgenstern

We’d like to respond to a recent online article which raised some concerns about the initial description of our project. First of all, as the moderators we would like to thank the Palestinian Campaign…

Inspirations

By Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

As Chana and I have begun to examine the literary and publishing trends in Israel and the Palestinian territories in light of the shifting political situation in the region, I’ve found myself thinking…

New Blog Series: Cross-Cultural Dialogues in the Middle East

By Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi & Chana Morgenstern

The two of us met during a particularly gritty winter in our first year of graduate school at Brown University. While Chana, an Israeli fiction writer, translator, and scholar, had just begun working…