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In a world where the realms of official politics are increasingly dominated by totalizing discourses and entrenched symbolic orders, spontaneous acts of resistance—rooted in the lived experiences and moral sensitivities of the marginalized—rarely find space for expression. Yet, from time to time..

Bahareh Hedayat is a prominent Iranian political activist and prisoner. She was arrested on 11 October 2022, amid the revolutionary uprising following the killing of Jina Amini by the Islamic Republic “Morality Police.” A well-known activist involved in the campaign to collect one million signat..

I was attracted to the topic of Iranian pop music in Los Angeles for several reasons. The first was Tehrangeles (Tehran + Los Angeles) pop’s ubiquitous presence in Iranian diasporic social life and its absence in scholarly literature.

After the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini banned music from being publicly played, broadcasted or sold in Iran, stating that it was sinful. Today genres such as pop, rock and rap are produced and circulated widely in Iran..

From Tehran: 27 March 2020

This podcast takes you to several cities/countries affected by Covid-19 to discuss social, economic, and political challenges facing their societies, with emphasis on the most vulnerable groups and on what this pandemic reveals about ..

#Statement by a collective of protesting students present at today’s gathering on the campus of Amir Kabir (Polytechnic) University[1] in Tehran to protest the calamitous downing of a passenger flight by a defense missile.

Contrary to a popular view that has become entrenched in media and certain academic trends, the emergence of luxury spaces is not about an all-inclusive Iranian desire for a better life in the all-too heroic act of cultural resistance, simplistically described as “lipstick jihad.” Rather, such s..

Going to archives in Iran—the capital specifically—remains obscure to a great number of PhD students and researchers based outside of the country. Often, senior academics from whom students seek advice have not been to Iran’s archives for ..

Livre recensé: Mina Saïdi-Sharouz (dir.), Le Téhéran des quartiers populaires. Transformation urbaine et société civile en République Islamique, (Paris: Karthala/IFRI, 2013).

Réjouissons-nous de la parution de cet ouvrage. En effet, elle marque le renouveau des études francophones..

Divercities aims to look at urban governance, its agents, agendas and options, through contested space and conflicting urban concepts, identity claims and social environments. Situated at the core of social and political fractions, contested spaces reveal insights into the dynamics of diverse so..

Call for Papers: DiverCities: Contested Space and Urban Identities in Beirut, Cairo, and Tehran

Date: 12-14 December 2013

Location: Beirut

Organisers: Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB) and Goethe-Institut Beirut

Deadline: 31 July 20..

Something significant and electric is taking place in Iran, and consuming many Iranians around the world in advance of the presidential elections that are set to take place on Friday, 14 June 2013. Over the last few days, segments of a broad Iranian democratic opp..

In recent years, the Iranian New Year, Norooz, has become a fairly predictable time for US presidents to gesture towards “dialogue” and mutual respect between the United States and the Iranian people, while criticizing the repressive policies and nuclear aspirations of the Islamic Republi..

Sholeh Wolpé, The Forbidden: Poetry from Iran and Its Exiles. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2012. 

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Next week, representatives from one hundred and eighteen of the world’s one hundred and ninety two states will gather in Tehran, Iran for the 16^th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit. Created in 1961, the NAM was a crucial platform for the Third World Project (whose history I de..

The state of Iranian cyberspace is yet another example of the repressive relationship between the Islamic Republic`s government and the people of Iran. A report by Freedom House this April ranked Iran last in regards to Internet..

[This interview was conducted in Tehran by Manijeh Nasrabadi of the Raha Iranian Feminist Collective one year after the green uprising. For more from the R..