The Ungrateful Refugee

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By Dina Nayeri ’01

Published May 15, 2019

In The Ungrateful Refugee (Catapult), writer Dina Nayeri ’01 gives insight into the thought process and personal experience of refugees by telling her own story — as a woman who left Iran at the age 8 and has spent the rest of her life as an immigrant in America and Europe.

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