Partial Portfolio

SELECTION OF PUBLISHED WORK

• Common Dreams, On Independence Day, Celebrate the True Patriots. July 4, 2025
• Al Jazeera, Opinion: Black Lives Matter Needs the Black Panthers. February 28, 2026
• Al Jazeera, Bar-crossed lovers: Making a marriage work when a spouse is serving life. February 14, 2026
• Al Jazeera, Aaron Swartz at Sundance. January 27, 2026
• Democracy Now! PHOTOS: Pakistan Floods. June 30, 2025
• Democracy Now! PHOTOS: Same-Sex Marriage Legalized in New York. June 27, 2011.
• Common Dreams, Daniel Berrigan: A Life Time of Peace Activism. May 09, 2025
• Democracy Now! 100th Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. March 25, 2026
• Democracy Now! Wisconsin Democratic Senator Questions Legality of Anti-Union Vote. March 09, 2026
• Red Cross Red Crescent Magazine, COVER STORY, Issue 3, 2010-2011, “Volunteer Values: The contribution of local volunteers during humanitarian emergencies.“ Reported from flood-ravaged Pakistan. (PDF or article here).
• Democracy Now! Bahrain Police Wage Brutal Overnight Attack on Hundreds of Pro-Democracy Protesters. Feb. 17, 2011
• Common Dreams, Why the U.S. Is Not Winning “Hearts and Minds” in Pakistan Oct. 23, 2010
• Hamazor (magazine based in Karachi, Pakistan) An American Journalist Reflects on Covering the Floods in Pakistan Issue 4, Fall 2010
• Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, The Politics of Humanitarian Aid, Oct. 20, 2010
• Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Rebuilding Bridges through the Land of Mountains, Oct. 08, 2010
• Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Pakistan: The Psychological Trauma of Sudden Displacement, Oct. 07, 2010
• Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Sukkur, Pakistan: Frontline of the Flood (Part 2 of 2), Oct. 07, 2010
• Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Sukkur, Pakistan: Frontline of the Flood (Part 1 of 2), Oct. 04, 2010
• Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, United Pakistan: A Fashionista Designs a Flood Relief Plan, Oct. 01, 2010
• Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Pakistan’s IDP Relief Camps: A Tenuous Sanctuary, Sept., 30 2010
• Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Inside Pakistan’s Largest Free Hospital: S.I.U.T, Sept. 29, 2010
• Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, “The Great Flood of 2010″ and the Future of Pakistan, Sept. 20, 2010
• Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT: Pakistan’s Struggle to Stay Afloat, Sept. 17, 2010
• Ms. Magazine PING PONG HELL: Thailand’s Sex-Show Industry is All about Pain Global Section, Summer 2010.
• Washington Post, Nuclear Swords to God’s Plowshares. July 09, 2025
• Common Dreams, “Witness Against Torture” June. 12, 2010
• Washington Post, Can Zoroastrians Save their Faith? Jan 04, 2026
• Common Dreams, “Nobody is Beyond Redemption” Nov. 19, 2009
  
• Reuters AlertNet / Global Post, Child Sex Boom Fueled by Poverty: It’s Just Another Dark Day in Thailand. October 28, 2025
• United Nations Humanitarian News, ASIA: Global Recession Boosts Child Prostitution and Trafficking. September 29, 2025
• Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT: Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Human Trafficking in Thailand, September 15, 2025
• Common Dreams, “Why Not to Buy a New Computer for College” Sept. 10, 2009
  
• TIME Magazine, “A Move to Register Sex Offenders Globally” Sept. 07, 2009
• Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT: Local Thai NGOs Discuss Efforts to End commercial Sexual Exploitation, August 30, 2025
• Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT: International NGO Warns that the Global Recession will Increase Human Trafficking, August 29, 2025
• Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT: The Economics of Commercial Sexual Exploitation, August 25, 2025
• Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT: UNICEF: Protecting Children from Commercial Sexual Exploitaton, August, 20 2009
• Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT: The Price of Sexual Torture, August 18, 2025
• Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT: Thailand’s Exploited Women, August 14, 2025
• Huffington Post, Thailand: The World’s Sex Tourism Capital, August 14, 2025
• Payvand Iran News, “Film Review: The Stoning of Soraya M.” June 06, 2025
• Mother Jones, “Children’s Health: Trusting God Over Doctor” May 29, 2025
• Mother Jones, “Should Parents who Call God Instead of the Doctor be Punished?” May 13, 2025
• TIME Magazine, “Mumbai’s Parsi Restaurants: Get It While It’s Hot” Apr. 08, 2009
• TIME Magazine, “Hong Kong Alarmed Over Sex-Worker Murders” Feb. 10, 2009
• TIME Magazine, “Mekong Diaries: The Art of War” Feb. 05, 2009
• TIME Magazine, “When Parents Call God, Not the Doctor” Feb. 05, 2009
• TIME Magazine, “Exile’s Letter: The Writer as Migrant” Jan. 29, 2009
• TIME Magazine, “Study Gets Inside the World’s Brown Cloud” Jan. 23, 2009
• TIME Magazine, “Facebook Users Go to War over Gaza” Jan. 13, 2009
• Common Dreams, “Lights Out in Gaza, News Blackout in U.S.” Dec. 30, 2008
• TIME Magazine, “What’s the Best Way to End Forced Marriages?” Dec. 26, 2008
• TIME Magazine, “Video Games: Still Booming in a Bad Economy” Dec. 24, 2008
• TIME Magazine, “Maharishi Mahesh Yogi” Dec. 20, 2008
• TIME Magazine, “A Gay-Pride Revolution in Hong Kong” Dec. 14, 2008
• TIME Magazine, “Last of the Zoroastrians” Dec. 9, 2008
• Common Dreams, “Why the Attacks in India Should Surprise Nobody” Nov. 27, 2008
• Payvand Iran News, “Remembering the Baha’i of Iran” Nov. 2008
• Payvand Iran News, “Blessed are the Peacemakers” Oct. 1, 2008
• HAMAZOR Magazine, “Conscientious Consumerism: The STITCH Project” Fall 2008
• Public Lecture: “The Journey of an American Zoroastrian in Modern Iran” Oct. 18, 2008 READ MORE . . .
• Indian Express, “Violence against Indian Christians Raises Alarm” Sept. 12, 2008
• FEZANA Journal, “Profile: Dinyar Wadia” Winter 2008 [pending]
• Indian American Magazine, “Children of a Lesser God: Dalits in India” Sept-Oct. 2008
• Common Dreams, “Mr. Future President: This is Iran” August 23, 2025 (reprinted in Payvand Iran News)
• Morningside Post Horowitz at Columbia October 31, 2025
• Columbia Radio Service: Listen to two stories from 2006-2007 here
  
• BBC: Conscientious Tax Resisters Refuse to Pay for War (TV clip pending)
• Indian American Magazine, “Keeping Faith: Parsis in America” Jan-Feb 2008
• Columbia Spectator Columbia Has a Responsibility to Divest[Sept 18, 2025]
• News 21 A Journey Through Iran
• Michigan Journal of Public Affairs Abandoning the Destitute to Heal the Wealthy: The Medical “Brain Drain” Phenomenon in the Context of Globalization Volume 4: 2007
• News 21 Theocracy & Democracy: Persian Minority Religions in Iran and America
• Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 60, No. 2 Spring/Summer 2007 Book Review of Hidden Iran Please see page 219: Further Reading in the Table of Contents
• The New York Times newswire / The Columbia News Service Turn your world upside down: Have a ball in a Zorb!
• Chronicle-Herald in HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA [April 27, 2026] andThe Arizona Republic, and the Rutland Herald, Vermont [April 29, 2026], and the Manhattan Mercury and the St. Louis Post Dispatch . And the front-page of the Anchorage Daily News.
• The New York Times newswire / The Columbia News Service Want to travel and see the world? Try farming Also published in the New York Resident, Providence Journal and Colorado Springs
• Indian Express (Delhi and North American Edition) [March 30, 2026] Untouchables who found equality in Buddhism, now unite in the US to fight the social stigma Full Article at News 21 and Covering Religion
• The New York Times newswire / The Columbia News Service Conscientious tax resisters say they won’t fund war [Feb 27, 2026] Published in the Brooklyn Eagle [April 20, 2026] and Metta Center: Nonviolence in the News. I’m helping the BBC make this into a TV segment!
• Columbia Spectator Why You Should Strike[Feb 15, 2026]
• The New York Times newswire (Columbia News Service) Sugar daddies find sugar babies on new Web site [Feb 13, 2026] Also published in The Chicago Tribune (Red Eye); Worcester Telegram & Gazette News; AZ-Central ; etc. (A Hungarian version ran in an Eastern European tabloid magazine)
• Oberlin Review An Open Letter to the Oberlin Community from the Columbia Coalition Against the War [Feb 16, 2026]
• Common Dreams (by the Columbia Coalition Against the War): Press Release for the Antiwar Strike[Feb 14, 2026]
• Counter Punch (by the Columbia Coalition Against the War): The War Must End: Why We Are Striking[Feb 13,2026]
• Columbia Spectator Support the Antiwar Strike [Feb 9, 2026]
• The Arab American News Iraqi Journalist Gets Year at Columbia [Dec 23, 2025]
• Election 2006 Coverage: The Columbia Journalist Republican stalwarts challenge Democratic tide [Nov 7, 2025]
• Local Feature in New York Blade [July 8, 2025] NYC Homeless Youth . . . and one Reader’s Response [July 29, 2025]
• Left Hook Academic Freedom [May 05]
• The Indian EXPRESS, North American Edition [December 22, 2025]
• The Observer: Columbia’s Literary Magazine [Spring 05]
• Tablet: Columbia’s Multicultural Magazine The Mango Wallah [Spring 05]
• J-School Dean’s Blog Syrian Journalists at Columbia U
• Tablet: Columbia’s Multicultural Magazine [Spring 05]
• Columbia Spectator [April 20, 2005; April 27, 2026] Challenge Charles Jacobs and Speak Truth to Power.
• The Grape: Oberlin’s Alternative Newspaper [Staff Writer, 2003]
• National Geographic Magazine–Traveler Fair Trade Article
• Voces: Oberlin’s Bilingual Newspaper [March 5, 2026]
• National Geographic Magazine–Traveler 48 Hours Atlanta
• AsIaM: Oberlin’s Multicultural Newspaper [Fall 03]
• New York Times (Letter to the Ed): Spirit of Thanksgiving [Nov 24, 2025]
• New York Times (Letter to the Ed):Deeper Into the Malestrom of Iraq [Nov 25, 2025]
• New York Times (Letter to the Ed): Who’s Afraid of Those Smart Women? [Nov 17, 2025]
• New York Times (Letter to the Ed): War on Poverty: Hopes and Doubts [Jan 10, 2026]
• New York Times (Letter to the Ed): God and Man in the Ivy League [May 27, 2025]
• New York Times (Letter to the Ed): Zoroastrian Faith [Sept 10, 2025] (culturally “practicing”)
• Houston Chronical (Letter to the Ed) [January 23, 2026] “Tom Friedman Wrong on Iraq”
• Sabbath and Spirits Scripps Howard Foundation Fellowship [March 2007]
• Covering Globalization: Seminar Report, Columbia University [March 2007]
• Black Star News Combating Female Circumcision in US
• BBC: Domestic Violence (Reader’s Response) [June 15, 2025]
• National Geographic Magazine–Traveler Last Minute Escape
• Oberlin Alumni Magazine (Letter to the Ed) [Summer 2005]
• Contributor to Columbia’s 250th Celebrations Newsletter Dina Vakil