Longreads"By finding the exact vocabulary for grief, I was trying to “wash” the faces of those falling in the streets just blocks away, reclaiming them from the system’s indifference." —Miadd Banki for Public Books
https://www.publicbooks.org/they-would-not-dream-of-flowers-translating-through-the-tehran-blackout/
They Would Not Dream of Flowers: Translating Through the Tehran Blackout - Public Books
As the entire country was plunged into a digital blackout, the only light remaining in my room was the cold, clinical glow of my disconnected laptop. There, in that forced isolation, I sat translating a story about death.