For the Sun After Long Nights

Nilo Tabrizy is an investigative reporter for The Washington Post's Visual Forensics team where she covers Iran using open source methods. Previously, she worked as a video journalist at the New York Times, covering Iran, race and policing, and abortion access, and at Vice News covering drug policy and harm reduction. She is a winner of the Front Page Award for Online Investigative Reporting (2022), the POY 79 Award of Excellence (2021), the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award (2016), a finalist for the 2025 Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics, and an Emmy nominee. Nilo received her M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University and her B.A. in Political Science and French from the University of British Columbia.Fatemeh Jamalpour is an Iranian journalist who has been interrogated, arrested, and jailed by the Iranian regime for her reporting on political unrest, state repression, and grassroots activism. Now living in exile in the United States, her work has appeared in the Sunday Times, The Paris Review, the Los Angeles Times and Al Jazeera. Previously, she worked with the BBC World News in London and Shargh newspaper in Tehran. She has two master's degrees in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Chicago and Allameh University in Tehran. Fatemeh was a 2024-25 Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan.

For the Sun After Long Nights is the kind of fiercely intelligent and unapologetically intimate masterpiece our Iranian canon has long needed-narrative nonfiction storytelling at its finest!... If you want to fully grasp Iran today, start here.

• Introduction: Introduction PART I: JIN / ZAN, WOMAN 1: For Woman, Life, Freedom 2: For Students. For the Future. 3: For Not Being Afraid Anymore 4: For the Sun After Long Nights 5: For Dancing in the Alley 6: For Continuous Crying 7: For My Sister, Your Sister, Our Sisters 8: For the Wounds of Baluchestan 9: For Defenseless Bodies and Lives 10: For the Imprisoned Intellectuals 11: For Nika and the Moon 12: For the Endless and Repetitive PART II: JÎYAN / ZENDEGI, LIFE 13: For What They Stole from Us 14: For the Freedom of Choice 15: For My Mom, Your Mom, Our Moms 16: For the Women Whose Feet Were Cut from Running 17: For the Regret of a Normal Life 18: For the Girl Who Wished to Be a Boy 19: For a Lifetime of Loneliness 20: For Changing Rusted Minds 21: For the Image of Repetition 22: For Bloody Aban and Its Fifteen Hundred Living Martyrs 23: Grief Is the Bitter Fruit They Set 24: For Not Being Ashamed of Poverty 25: What Can They Know of Our Distress Who Watch Us from the Shore? 26: Outside the Confines of My Body PART III: AZADÎ / AZADI, FREEDOM 27: For Kian and His Rainbow 28: My Palate's Bitt er with Grief 's Aftertaste 29: For Hanged Heads 30: How Sweet Those Days When We Were Still 31: For the Women Who Never Express Regret 32: The Roses Have All Gone 33: Goodbye, My Beloved Homeland 34: We Wait for Light and Darkness Reigns 35: For Resistance and Hope