Tag: Iran

• Analysis: Will Azerbaijan-Iran tensions lead to war?

  April 9, 2023

  Tehran, Iran – Tensions between Iran and Azerbaijan have been steadily ramping up in recent months, and divisive incidents have become almost a weekly occurrence. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/8/analysis-will-azerbaijan-iran-tensions-lead-to-war more ›

• What we lost with Persianate modernity

  March 18, 2023

  Cultural exchange is often assumed to be progressive, but it has neither an inherent politics nor an inevitable outcome. As nationalism rises across the globe, many see ‘cultural exchange’ as… more ›

• A brief history of the fatwa

  August 27, 2022

  The horrific assault on Salman Rushdie on 12 August has reminded us of the continuing threat posed by Ayatollah Khomeini’s ‘fatwa’ against the author issued over thirty years ago in… more ›

• Where Iran Goes to Party – Air Mail

  January 25, 2020

  TBILISI, Georgia—On a day when some 70 Iranians protested outside the Iranian Embassy here against the killing of General Qasem Soleimani by a U.S. https://airmail.news/issues/2020-1-25/where-iran-goes-to-party more ›

• William Barr, Trump’s Sword and Shield

  January 14, 2020

  Last October, Attorney General William Barr appeared at Notre Dame Law School to make a case for ideological warfare. Before an assembly of students and faculty, Barr claimed that the… more ›

• The Shadow Commander

  January 7, 2020

  Last February, some of Iran’s most influential leaders gathered at the Amir al-Momenin Mosque, in northeast Tehran, inside a gated community reserved for officers of the Revolutionary Guard. They had… more ›

• Who Really Attacked Saudi Arabia?

  September 22, 2019

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• Iranian pop music

  May 29, 2019

  Iranian pop music refers to pop music originated in Iran, with songs mainly in Persian and other regional languages of the country. It is also widely referred to as Persian… more ›

• Hijab Protests Expose Iran’s Core Divide

  February 8, 2018

  Hijab Protests Expose Iran’s Core Divide » It was the quietest protest Iran has ever witnessed. Vida Movahed, a thirty-one-year-old mother of a toddler, stood atop a large utility box on Tehran’s… more ›

• Portraits show Iran’s hidden minority of…

  April 23, 2017

  Portraits show Iran’s hidden minority of Afro-Iranians » German-Iranian photographer Mahdi Ehsaei has spent the last three years documenting a lesser known community in his home country: Iranians of African… more ›