The Compass
The Compass
BBC World Service
Emotional Baggage: Dina Nayeri
27 minutes Posted Mar 9, 2022 at 3:00 am.
0:00
27:07
Download MP3
Show notes

Psychiatrist Henrietta Bowden-Jones talks to novelist Dina Nayeri about her experience of escaping Iran and seeking asylum. The author of The Ungrateful Refugee reveals why she left her homeland without her father, her "co-conspirator in life", and why that sense of loss that has always stayed with her.

(Photo: Iranian American novelist Dina Nayeri during the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2019, Scotland. Credit: Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Images)