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  • Young women have been defying the Iranian regime's crackdown
    Iranian protest literature

    Ehtesham-Zadeh and the inner revolution

    "Zan", Suzi Ehtesham-Zadeh's short story collection, tells of Iranian women during the uprising in Iran, and of women in exile grappling in diverse ways with their identity and roots. A book about women, life and freedom that has arrived at exactly the right moment

  • Calligraphy from the eighth century that reads "Ali is the vicegerent of God"
    Sunnis and Shias in Islam

    How the Sunni-Shia split shaped the Islamic world throughout history

    Toby Matthiesen's new book, "The Caliph and the Imam", explores both the origins of the Sunni-Shia divide, what the two branches of Islam have in common and how the split has shaped the Islamic world

  • Prominent voices from within the Islamic Republic's inner circle of power – once spokesmen for the most radical factions – are now vehement in their criticism of Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader. They used the first anniversary of Mahsa Amini's death to drive home their condemnation.
    Iran and Mahsa Amini, one year on

    Tehran's power base is fading

    Prominent voices from within the Islamic Republic's inner circle of power – once spokesmen for the most radical factions – are now vehement in their criticism of Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader. They used the first anniversary of Mahsa Amini's death to drive home their condemnation. By Ali Sadrzadeh

  • After the death of Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini, Iran's universities became the focus of anti-regime protests. Now lecturers critical of the regime are being dismissed, while those loyal to the regime are being rehired: Tehran's Islamic regime is apparently reshaping the country's universities even more strictly according to its own ideas.
    Iran protests

    Tehran dismisses university lecturers

    University lecturers critical of the regime are being dismissed, while those loyal to the regime are being rehired: Tehran's Islamic regime is apparently reshaping the country's universities even more strictly according to its own ideas. By Iman Aslani

  • Every wearer of a turban in Iran is seen as a representative and symbol of the hated regime.
    Shia clerics in Iran

    "Save Islam" – or just the mullahs?

    Are the Shia clergy disappearing as a pillar of Iranian society, degenerating into a mere power apparatus? Nationwide attacks, vilification and the murder, or attempted murder, of mullahs are becoming more frequent. Every turban wearer is seen as representing and symbolising the hated regime. By Ali Sadrzadeh

  • Challenging one of the Islamic Republic's most identifiable symbols – the hijab – with some breathtaking, iconographic feminist art, Iran's activists have wrested ownership away from the clerics with regard to who represents the nation, defines its present and shapes its future.
    Iran protests

    What the Islamic Republic's propaganda tells us

    Challenging one of the Islamic Republic's most identifiable symbols – the hijab – with some breathtaking, iconographic feminist art, Iran's activists have wrested ownership away from the clerics with regard to who represents the nation, defines its present and shapes its future. Essay by Kevin L. Schwartz & Olmo Goelz

  • 'Maximum pressure' gears up

    Protests drive Iran's Saudi deal

    On 10 March 2023, the world woke up to the breaking news that Middle East rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia had forged a deal to restore diplomatic relations within two months and refrain from interfering in each other's domestic affairs. Ali Fathollah-Nejad and Amin Naeni examine Iran's motivations

  • "Girl In The Cemetery" (detail) by Raoof Haghighi c/o A Gallery, London, UK: this painting was shown at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and has been dedicated by Haghighi to "all the brave women in Iran fighting for their freedom".
    Art and the Iran protests

    "Painting is like breathing for me"

    Iranian artist Raoof Haghighi's latest exhibition, including works in support of the women of Iran, presents an intriguing range of styles and media. From stark, striking pencil sketches to lush portraits in oils, the art show from 7-16 April promises to be visually, intellectually and emotionally stimulating. Interview by Richard Marcus

  • Poisoning of schoolgirls in Iran: So far, more than 3,100 cases of poisoning have been reported in schools nationwide.
    Iran – schoolgirl poisonings

    Threats in place of investigation

    The Iranian regime has pledged to mete out harsh punishments to those responsible for suspected poison attacks on girls’ schools. Such promises ring hollow. If nothing else, the state appears to tolerate the mysterious poisonings. Analysis by Ali Sadrzadeh

  • What does literature have to do with the Iran protests? It is a seismograph of societal developments. Reading books written by Iranian women authors over recent decades, you can plainly see the upheavals and eruptions growing larger and more forceful; you can see how much has been bottled up over time. It was very clear that at some point, all this would spark a revolution.
    Women's voices

    Iranian literature in times of uprising

    Young women are driving forward the protests against the Iranian regime, which have been going on for months. Literature provides clues as to why that should be, and why the current situation was unavoidable. By Gerrit Wustmann

  • As a young prosecutor in Tehran, Ebrahim Raisi sat on a "death committee" overseeing the execution of hundreds of political prisoners in the Iranian capital, rights groups say.
    Ebrahim Raisi

    Iran's 'death committee' president

    Iran's president Ebrahim Raisi is overseeing an unyielding crackdown. The current situation grimly echoes his role in a purge of political prisoners in 1988

  • Unless secularists change their authoritarian attitude, the current secularist trend will fail to produce democracy in the Muslim world. Whether they will truly embrace democratic pluralism remains uncertain.
    Protests in Iran

    Rethinking Sharia and democracy

    According to a recent survey, half of all Iranians say that they have left Islam as a religion, while two-thirds believe Islamic law should be excluded from their legal system. In the following essay, Ahmet T. Kuru explores the implications

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