Stories that cross
borders, cultures
and silences.

Maryam Rafiee writes about what it costs to leave, what survives the crossing, and what it means to build a life between worlds. Her work — shaped by her father's imprisonment in Iran, her own immigration to Canada, and a decade of longing — has been published in The Globe and Mail, The New Quarterly, ROOM Magazine, and beyond.

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I write about the lives we leave behind — and the ones we dare to build.

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Maryam Rafiee

Maryam Rafiee is an Iranian Canadian lawyer, writer, and human rights advocate. Through her legal work, advocacy, and writing, she explores themes of migration, memory, human rights, and the search for belonging. She is the author of Dear Baba: A Story Through Letters and Was It Worth It? A Journey of Leaving, Losing, and Becoming.

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