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Remaining in Light: Iranians Search for Solace and Well-Being

Remaining in Light: Iranians Search for Solace and Well-Being

Iranian doctors, psychotherapists, and exiled human rights advocates are exploring new talk therapy methods to combat despair amid...

SEPTEMBER 5, 2025 • By Malu Halasa
The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club — Review

The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club — Review

Sepideh Gholian's book demonstrates that freedom, even in confinement, is a state of mind, where choosing life is...

JUNE 6, 2025 • By Hannah Kaviani
Looking for a Job, Living and Dying in Iran: The Logistics of Going Back

Looking for a Job, Living and Dying in Iran: The Logistics of Going Back

Not even escalating tensions between Israel and Iran could stop one wayward Iranian from returning home to see...

MAY 2, 2025 • By Raha Nik-Andish
In Killing Gilda Yahya Gharagozlou Tells an Intriguing Iranian Tale

In Killing Gilda Yahya Gharagozlou Tells an Intriguing Iranian Tale

A review of a book that offers a portrait of a royal dynasty whose decline has significantly shaped...

JANUARY 10, 2025 • By Azadeh Moaveni
The Mourning Diaries of Atash Shakarami

The Mourning Diaries of Atash Shakarami

The diaries provide a complex double-layered narrative of Nika as a victim of regime brutality, and of Atrash...

JULY 5, 2024 • By Poupeh Missaghi
Plenty of Marjanes & Leilas: Collective Strategies of the Women’s Protest in Iran

Plenty of Marjanes & Leilas: Collective Strategies of the Women’s Protest in Iran

Marjane Satrapi's edited anthology "Woman, Life, Freedom" shows that the story of the movement cannot be told with...

JULY 5, 2024 • By Katie Logan
Nothing is Normal, Nothing Is What it Seems (Underground Theatre in Iran After the Woman, Life, Freedom Movement)

Nothing is Normal, Nothing Is What it Seems (Underground Theatre in Iran After the Woman, Life, Freedom Movement)

An interview with an actress performing on stage in Iran without a hijab and who is no longer...

JUNE 7, 2024 • By Mehrnaz Daneshvar
“I, Mariam”—a story by Joumana Haddad

“I, Mariam”—a story by Joumana Haddad

Joumana Haddad's short story delves into a woman's lifelong journey of navigating her relationship with the hijab.

APRIL 26, 2024 • By Joumana Haddad
Revolutionary Hit Parade: 12+1 Protest Songs from Iran

Revolutionary Hit Parade: 12+1 Protest Songs from Iran

Malu Halasa and Beehype on the latest hit parade of protest songs for Iranian freedom.

DECEMBER 15, 2022 • By Rana Asfour
Music for Tomorrow: Iranians Yearn for Freedom

Music for Tomorrow: Iranians Yearn for Freedom

Nazanin Malekan vibes with the women's revolution in Iran via her love for music and poetry, both Persian...

DECEMBER 15, 2022 • By Nazanin Malekan
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