The ‘Axis of Resistance’ (Mihwar al-muqawama), a coalition of forces at which the Islamic Republic of Iran has been at the centre, was formed in the crucible of revolution, war and occupa..
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Iran and the ‘Axis of Resistance’: A Brief History
The ‘Axis of Resistance’ (Mihwar al-muqawama), a coalition of forces at which the Islamic Republic of Iran has been at the centre, was formed in the crucible of revolution, war and occupation, and has garnered global attention in the wake of the Hamas-led Operation Al-Aqsa Flood of October 7, 2023. Israeli politicians and New York Times columnists alike have favoured bestial metaphors of an Iranian octopus with tentacles strangling any hope for a ‘New Middle East’. The ‘Axis,’ a coinage of recent vintage and only really popularised in the post-2003 era, emerged out of a complex and fraught history, th..
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Call for Targeted Academic Boycott of Turkey
[This call was released by Academics for Peace on 7 June 2017. The statement is also available in Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese (Mandarin), French, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Kurdish (Sorani), Kurdi..
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Cancer, Ethnicity, and the Bodies of Others
For Maral G. H. (2004-2016)
Cancer, I have learned, insists on the visibility of ethnic belonging.[1]Cancer shrinks the topography of one’s worl..
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