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Dr. Nassim Assefi

Doctor~Writer~Curator~Activist~TEDFellow
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TV
Nassim was a guest on Eric Liu's Seattle Voices show. Click here to watch the 30 minute interview.
 
Nassim was a guest on Nancy Pearl's Book Lust show. Click here to watch the 30 minute interview.
 
Nassim was interviewed for Author Magazine by William Kenower. Click here to view the interview and then click on Nassim Assefi.
 
RADIO
Nassim was interviewed on NPR by Steve Scher of KUOW's Weekday program.
Click here to listen using Real Audio/Real Player
Click here to listen using I-Tunes/MP3 player
Or go to KUOW and click on Weekday for June 27, 2007 at 9am.
 
Nassim was interviewed on NPR by Amir Soltani of KALW´s Up FrontNew American Media program. Interview can be heard between minutes 35 and 47 by clicking here and then downloading the MP3 player version.
 
Nassim was a featured guest on two shows on Reach MD radio--one of global health volunteering and the other on war's impact on public health.

 

PODCASTS


As part of the 2011 Jack Straw Writing Fellowship, Nassim has a podcast from an interview and reading from the opening of her new novel, Say I Am You. Click here to access from the website and scroll down and click under Nassim's name, or click here to download to your mp3 player.

 

Podcasts of Nassim's talk, reading, and interview at Edmonds Community College can be downloaded via I-Tunes University here. (You must have I-Tunes to access these podcasts, but it can be downloaded at no cost at apple.com.) Once you've entered the Edmonds Community College site, click on the green button "Go to i-Tunes U" and then search under Nassim Assefi (as part of the Convergence Writer Series) in your I-Tunes window.  There will be two entries under her name.

 

 

PRINT/DIGITAL

 

Interview from the TED Blog

 

Article from Seattle Magazine on my TEDx conference.
  
Article on my work in Afghanistan from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute 
   
Seattle Post Intelligencer article on my work in Afghanistan

 

Seattle Post Intelligencerarticle on my clinical trial of Reiki

                                                                                             

Latest News


Nassim is now based in Seattle after 5 years abroad in Afghanistan, Cuba, and Turkey. She has just co-produced the audiobook for Aria (click here for a sample and here to buy it) with a very talented cast of actors and singers, including Susan Soriano and Ziba Shirazi. She hopes to have a publication date for her second novel, Say I Am You, very soon, and is currently experimenting with a third book--a sassy memoir. 


Nassim is proud to have a chapter in Tremors, an anthology of new fiction by Iranian-American authors, edited by the amazing Anita Amirrezvani and Persis Karim.


She continues to be very active in the TED Community, attending 3 conferences this year (including TEDMED for the first time) and doing some behind-the-scenes curation and speaker coaching. She is thrilled to be guest-curating and guest-hosting a session at TEDGlobal this June with Gabriella Gomez-Mont, with a focus on the Middle East and Latin America. The legacy of TEDxRainier lives on (November 9-10, 2013 will be its fourth year!) thanks to the tireless work of Phil Klein, and she had the pleasure of emceeing one of the sessions last November. Together with the visionary John Cary and Courtney Martin, she will be launching a Speakers' Bureau of fresh, emerging, and diverse voices (with a focus on TEDFellows). 


Doctoring takes many forms these days--from human rights work domestically and globally to tech consulting and even a medical counsel possibility. She plans to return to the Country Doctor Community Health Clinics at the end of a year-long maternity leave.


Nassim's long-term dream is to start a Peace Center based in Beirut that focuses on Middle Eastern women, soft power, and reconciliation across national borders, languages, ethnicities, and religions. To that end, she is returning to Lebanon this May to run in the first, annual, women and girl's race there (running in the Beirut Marathon as part of a multinational peace team in 2011 while visibly pregnant apparently caused quite a stir).


Watch this space for more news, or you can always follow Nassim's latest thoughts and discoveries on her twitter page.