Dina Nayeri: Marjane Satrapi brought Iranian women like me out of hiding The Persepolis author understood us and translated us for the world. We have lost our most eloquent spokesperson The Guardian - UK · Jun 4
£15,000 prize launched for writers from refugee and migrant backgrounds The Footnote x Counterpoints prize is intended to uncover new literary voices whose work reflects the experiences of migration The Guardian - UK · Nov 27, 2025
British-Palestinian writer NS Nuseibeh wins Jhalak prose prize for writers of colour ‘Timely’ essay collection Namesake explores identity, religion and colonialism as Nathanael Lessore takes children’s and young adult prize and Mimi Khalvati wins for poetry The Guardian - UK · Jun 4, 2025
Who Gets Believed? by Dina Nayeri – why asylum seekers struggle to be understood For the author of The Ungrateful Refugee, all the world’s a stage; its gatekeepers – immigration officers, courts, cops – incredulous audiences that the most vulnerable have to convince The Guardian - UK · Mar 12, 2023
Who gets believed? Dina Nayeri examines society's personal relationship with truth In a new book, the author and former refugee explores her own relationship with being believed — and believing others. WEKU · Mar 10, 2023
Who Gets Believed? by Dina Nayeri review – the Kafkaesque ordeal faced by refugees The author uses her first-hand experience of migration to examine the flaws and hypocrisies of the asylum system The Guardian - UK · Mar 10, 2023
‘Only the dead feel no guilt’: Ukrainian refugees on surviving Survivor’s guilt is a common reaction to war, experts say, as Ukrainian refugees confront feelings of shame. Al Jazeera · Apr 6, 2022