Simin Fadaee, University of Manchester Forty-four years after Iranians rose up against their hated monarch in February 1979, a group of 20 organisations engaged in long-term social and economic...
Kazakhstan, the largest country in Central Asia, seeks to position itself as an important regional and global actor that has good relations with all major powers. Even though Astana is Russia’s...
In the popularized American version of Christmas, the religious celebration displays many natural and cultural aspects of Western Europe. Think of snow, a fir tree, and reindeer; or Christmas...
Russia has resumed attacks against Ukraine's cities and energy infrastructure using Iranian-made drones. There are also indications it is willing to assist the Iranian regime's brutal crackdown on...
Jo Smith Finley, Newcastle University The latest wave of protests sweeping through China were sparked by the deaths of at least ten people in a fire in a high-rise apartment block in Ürümchi,...
Pardis Mahdavi, The University of Montana Shouts of “death to the dictator” and “woman, life, freedom” are reverberating throughout the streets of Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini, a...
More than a decade ago, when Ahmadinejad became the president of Iran for the second time and the people protested the announcement of the results, Jafar Panahi was arrested. On July 30, 2009, he -...
This year's unprecedented attacks against Iraqi Kurdistan have had detrimental effects on the autonomous region's energy and tourism sectors. On July 20, Iraqi tourists converging on Zakho's Parakh...
While all eyes are on Ukraine, Turkey is preparing to reinvade Syria. Given that Moscow – the major ally of Syrian President Bashar Al Assad – is still preoccupied with the war in the Eastern...
After posting a YouTube video in which he interviewed an Indonesia-born man and his German husband (May 10), a celebrity and podcaster Dedy Corbuzier was blasted with online protest. With a...
