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  • Director and two actresses at a press conference in Cannes, 2024.
    "The Seed of the Sacred Fig"

    The story of an Oscar nomination

    Shot and set in Iran, "The Seed of the Sacred Fig" is this year's Oscar nomination from Germany. The film deftly portrays political and intergenerational conflicts in Iranian society but ignores the Kurdish origins of the "Women, Life, Freedom" movement.

  • Two women stand arm in arm in front of a wall and show the victory sign.
    Iranian civil society

    Silenced under the pretext of war

    Iran and Israel are engaged in an unprecedented open military conflict. The regime is using the threat of war as a weapon against its own population. Activists from the "Women, Life, Freedom" movement are branded "soldiers of Israel".

  • A crowd holding signs and banners demonstrate against the far right.
    Tareq Sydiq’s book “The New Protest Culture”

    Can protests transform society?

    From Iran to the Last Generation, citizens in democracies and dictatorships alike are taking to the streets. Tareq Sydiq analyses these uprisings and asks why some fail while others dramatically change the system.

  • The portrait of a nurse in a protective suit is projected onto the Azadi monument in Tehran.
    Nurses on strike in Iran

    "Strikers feel they have nothing left to lose"

    In Iran, nurses are on strike to protest miserable living standards and stressful working conditions. Desperation is driving many abroad, and some to suicide.

  • Iran's President Pezeshkian, surrounded by members of the parliament, waving and laughing
    Iranian parliament approves cabinet

    Moving forward into the past

    The cabinet of new Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian has disappointed those who voted for change. Pezeshkian’s voters had only modest expectations – less oppression of women and easier access to the internet – but in the Islamic Republic, everything remains the same.

  • Iranian Kurdish singer Hani Mojtahedi
    Kurdish singer Hani Mojtahedi

    Myths re-imagined

    Kurdish singer Hani Mojtahedi and German electro legend Andi Toma of Mouse On Mars have collaborated on an album that also pays homage to Mojtahedi’s grandfather, a Sufi master

  • Still from the film "My Favourite Cake" with Lily Farhadpour, Esmail Mehrabi
    Cinema in Iran

    Unveiled women conquer the silver screen

    More and more Iranian films are breaking taboos – the results are being met with amazement both in and outside Iran. "My Favourite Cake", which premiered at the Berlinale in February, is just the latest example

  • Headshot of a women (Sedigheh Vasmaghi) wearing glasses and a headscarf
    The Iranian theologian and feminist Sedigheh Vasmaghi

    A revolution in Islamic law

    With her work, Iranian feminist and legal scholar Sedigheh Vasmaghi is putting an end to male dominance in Islamic jurisprudence, striking at the very heart of the Islamic Republic.

  • 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

  • Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi
    Death sentence for Rapper Toomaj

    Tehran's legitimacy crisis

    The rapper Toomaj Salehi has been sentenced to death in Iran. His case shows how the regime is fighting to maintain its power, and against whom

  • A woman holds a pen in her hand as she looks at a ballot paper at a polling station in Iran
    Parliamentary elections in Iran

    Tehran's election fiasco

    Regime and society in Iran remain on a collision course with the actual turnout in the second round of Iran's parliamentary election last week estimated to have fallen below 40 per cent.

  • Election campaign posters in Tehran
    Iran elections

    Why Tehran may announce a fake voter turnout

    Banned from the streets, the protests in Iran continue. This week's elections will reflect just how much – or how little – popular support the Islamic Republic still enjoys

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