Iran Liberalism

Some Iranian journalists living and working abroad have been getting bad news when calling home after discovering that parents and siblings have been interrogated and detained. For years, Iranian authorities have been putting pressure on family members to si…

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Untitled, from the series Slow Decay. © Gohar Dashti What or where is home? Is it a place or a people, a feeling or a memory, a reality or a fantasy? Those questions are at the heart of My Iran: Six Women Photographers, an exhibition on display at the Arth…

Editors Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos. Protests erupted in more than 100 Iranian cities over the weekend, sparked by the governments decision to triple gasoline prices in a bid to fill a budget deficit. Demonstrators blocked traf…

By Rahman Bouzari | – (OpenDemocracy) – The recent round of spontaneous protests against the petrol price hike has to be contextualized as part of the long-term revolutionary process in Iran. The 2017-18 uprisings changed the Iranian political la…

The 2017-18 uprisings changed the Iranian political landscape for good. Since then, the Islamic Republic has entered into an organic crisis par excellence. Introduced and described by the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci a century ago, it is a comprehensive ec…

Protests erupted in more than 100 Iranian cities over the weekend, sparked by the governments decision to triple gasoline prices in a bid to fill a budget deficit. Demonstrators blocked traffic on major highways, burned posters of Iranian leaders in effigy, a…

Any actions that “foment insecurity” or threaten the “calm and tranquility” of Iranian society “will be dealt with decisively,” the IRGC said in a Monday statement published by the local media. The powerful security force did not further elaborate on what exa…

It all started with this book. I mean the way I have written my other books has been shaped by the process of writing this one. Like a life story, a book has its own murky history, shaped by complex circumstances, unexpected events, and strange coincidences. …

Swim Team Written by Jaber Ramezani. Directed by Aida Keykhaii. Until Nov. 17 at the Theatre Centre, 1115 Queen St. W. theatrecentre.org or 416-538-0988 In a small landlocked Iranian town, with no body of water around, a coach teaches three young women to s…