Videos
Dina’s The Waiting Place Schools project, supported by the University of St Andrews and described here and here featured on the BBC
Watch Dina and other notable Iranian women read translations of old Persian Poetry for NYPL’s “Thousand Years of Persian Poetry” (Dina starts at 13:16)
Watch Dina interviewed on a major Icelandic TV station, RÚV TV, in beautiful Reykjavik
Watch Dina speaking with fellow St Andrews faculty Ali Ansari and Stephen Gethens about the protests in Iran for Scottish Futures Podcast Series
Watch Dina’s interview on France 24 Morning Edition
Watch Dina interviewed by Christiane Amanpour on CNN and PBS.
Who Gets Believed? | Dina Nayeri | TEDxBrighton
Watch Dina’s IMHO segment on PBS Newshour: on the distinction between migrants and refugees
Watch Dina on Buzzfeed’s AM2DM’s Rebel Womxn segment (starting at 37:12)
Watch Dina’s 2019 Fellow talk at Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination
Foyles London,The Ungrateful Refugee, June 2019
Watch Dina’s UNESCO City of Literature Paul Engle Prize 2018 ceremony talk and public Q&A.
Read what students wrote about the event here.
Press conference for The Ungrateful Refugee, winner of the 2020 Geschwister Scholl Preis in Germany
Dina in conversation with Alice McCrum about truth and lies in creative nonfiction, at the American Library of Paris, where Dina was a fellow in 2021
Watch Dina in conversation with activist Alice Barbe at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris, where Dina was a fellow in 2019-2020
Watch Dina talk about the German edition of THE UNGRATEFUL REFUGEE on the German television show ARD TTT, August 30, 2020
Watch Dina talk about the German/French editions of THE UNGRATEFUL REFUGEE on the German and French television show Arte Twist, August 30, 2020
Watch Dina’s public keynote for the “Future is Feminist”
conference 2018 at the Lincoln School (watch the second half Q&A when things get super personal and hilarious).Read what students wrote about the event here.
Watch Dina’s school keynote for the “Future is Feminist”
conference 2018 at the Lincoln School.
Selected Radio Interviews
The New York Times “First Person” Podcast Lulu Garcia-Navarro interviews Dina
NPR’s “All Things Considered” Juana Summers interviews Dina
CBC Radio’s The Sunday Magazine(Canada) Amil Niazi interviews Dina Nayeri
BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Shahidha Bari interviews Dina Nayeri
BBC Radio 5 Laura McGhie, presenter Salma El-Wardany interviews Dina Nayeri
Monocle Meet the Writers, Georgina Godwin interviews Dina Nayeri
Standard Issue podcast interviews Dina Nayeri
The New Statesman “The World Review” interviews Dina about the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests in Iran
Dina talks with Professor Henrietta Bowden-Jones about displacement and trauma on BBC World Service’s program Emotional Baggage.
Dina’s Guardian Long Read (Foreign Mothers) Audio Version read by Dina Nayeri
Listen to Dina on PRI’s Live Wire Radio!
Listen to Dina read her taekwondo story from Guardian Long Read on a podcast! ‘I wouldn’t be the refugee, I’d be the girl who kicked ass’
Listen to Dina talk about being a refugee with Pajtim Statovci on Guardian Books podcast
Watch Dina Nayeri on CNN’s “Connect the World”.
Listen to Dina Nayeri’s interview ‘Refuge’ Captures Divide Between Father And Daughter Through Lens Of Immigration on NPR’s “All Things Considered”