Zahra Mousavi, a writer and social researcher, reflects on her lived experience as an Iranian-Afghan, navigating life between Iran and Afghanistan.
A personal documentary by Amin Zargham, recounts his life as a Baha’i in Iran, tracing decades of persecution and portraying individual resistance against propaganda and imposed silence.
In a conversation with Shabnam Toloui, writer and award-winning journalist Homa Sarshar reflects on her formative years in Iran, writing for Zan-e-Ruz and the daily Kayhan until 1978, when the Islamic revolution forced her to leave the country and resettle in the United States.
In a conversation with Maryam Fumani, a leading Islamic scholar in Iran, Sedigheh Vasmaghi says her book Why I Rebelled Against the Hijab, published by aasoo, was written to challenge religious justifications for inequality.
Corruption is often described as one of the greatest obstacles to justice and prosperity worldwide. In countries such as Iran, where corruption is part of the governing structure, who can hold the corrupt accountable?
For decades, civil society initiatives in Turkey have sought to recover stories and experiences that have been excluded from the city’s collective memory. Within this context, projects such as A City That Remembers offer a critical intervention.
The Bahá’í cemetery lies alone along Khavaran Road in the southeast of Tehran, not far from the Christian cemetery. Yet while the Christian burial ground has a clearly marked entrance, a sign, and its own access road, the Bahá’í cemetery—just a short distance away—has no address, no sign, no indication that it is there.
I stood there amid the stream of kolbars pouring down the mountain all at once, taking pictures. A young man with a small frame passed in front of me. A large box of cigarettes was strapped to his back. He could easily have been me, or one of my friends.
