Massud Alemi's debut novel, Interruptions, (2008) is about the personal fallout of large scale political events and how an ordinary person is ensnared in a scheme of larger ideological conflicts. It’s also a tale about how insignificant choices often lead to monumental consequences, and in particular the futility of the individual in the context of a political juggernaut.

Alemi lives in Washington D.C. He's a member of the Association of Iranian American Writers and a founding member of DC Area Screenwriters group.

"In Interruptions, Massud Alemi creates a vivid, powerful picture of Iran. He brings to life, in telling scenes, the reality of people’s daily existence, with all the secrets they have to keep, conspiracies they are forced into, and the violations of their rights that they have to deal with. He connects the history of Iran with the present in an interesting weave."                       —Nahid Rachlin, author of Persian Girls and Jumping over Fire

"Massud Alemi's Interruptions is a welcome addition to the many narratives about Iran and its recent troubled history. Alemi offers another point of view on the chaotic and turbulent times that surrounded the Iranian revolution and gives us the opportunity to see how history tears open a human life and simultaneously exposes all the cracks in a nation, a culture, a people. In fiction, we sometimes see what we can't face in reality."       —Persis M. Karim, editor and contributing poet, LET ME TELL YOU WHERE I'VE BEEN: New Writing by Women of the Iranian Diaspora