When Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Iran after 15 years of exile forty years ago this month, he rode high on the slogan: “Neither East, nor West – but the Islamic Republic!” Khomeini...
Before we delve into the posts we’re reading and loving elsewhere on the internet, don’t miss our most popular post last week...the latest dispatch in Natalia Antonova's #WednesdayWisdom, on how...
On the morning of September 8, Iran, in a truly unprecedented move, fired seven Fateh-110 short-range ballistic missiles into neighbouring Iraqi Kurdistan. The target was the headquarters of Iranian...
Before we delve into the posts we’re reading and loving elsewhere on the internet, don’t miss Patrick Carr on whether the United States is lurching towards war with Iran. And subscribe to...
Albert Camus once wrote: “When a war breaks out, people say: ‘It's too stupid, it can't last long.’ But though a war may be ‘too stupid,’ that doesn't prevent its lasting.” While he was...
In late April 2018 a mummified body alleged to be that of Iran's late ruler Reza Shah was discovered in Tehran, potentially prompting another debate among Iranians about the legacy of the first...
'Blind journalist seeks out Palestine's forgotten voices' (Al Jazeera English) Disabled journalists can struggle in a media environment that isn't always very accommodating. Budour Hassan seeks out...
Since the two-and-a-half-year-old truce between the Turkish state and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) group broke down in recent weeks one often sees and hears the term “Kurdish separatists” or...
Exotic. A word that contains worlds. You browse through a dictionary, and you find the word exotic defined as “strange or unusual”. In its archaic sense, it was used as synonym of foreign or...
In the early 1970's Ariel Sharon won on a political platform advocating a comprehensive settlement to the Palestinian issue. He reasoned that as a hawk he was the one to deliver peace since he could...