Monday Memo | Sanctions, Foreign Support, Escalation Concerns
Africa “Kenya doctor strike: The public caught between the medics and the government” A month-long doctor’s strike severely impacts the...
Iran
Monday Memo | Humanitarian Crises, Military Disputes, Historic Decisions
Asia and the Pacific “South Korea Moves to Suspend Licenses of Thousands of Protesting Doctors” After weeks of protests opposing...
Perspective | Women Made of Fire Cannot Be Burnt
Since September 2022, I have been actively participating in New York-based protests in solidarity with the Iranian revolution’s fight against...
Privilege and Ignorance: Posie Parker’s Misguided Comparison of Trans Protests to Women’s Rights in Iran
I was recently assigned the task of compiling a comprehensive report on Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, also known as Posie Parker, and...
Gulf Peace: China’s Progress and U.S. Standstill
While US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was visiting the Middle East, delegations from Iran and Saudi Arabia secretly visited Beijing and...
Perspective | Being Ethnically Ambiguous in a Race-Fueled America
No one I’ve met has ever been able to guess my race correctly. Not that it’s a competition, or that...
Faculty Insights Podcast: Zan, Zendagi, Azadi – Women, Life, Freedom
JPI's Puja Thapa sat down with Dr. Yass Alizadeh, Clinical Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature at NYU, to...
Perspective | My Mother Ran an Illegal Kindergarten in Iran
Between the ages of seven and thirteen, I lived in an illegal kindergarten in Tehran, Iran. I know what you’re...
Perspective | The Everyday Oppression of Iran’s Hijab Rule
From when I was a baby to around my early teen years my grandparents from Iran would visit my family...
Hezbollah After Syria: More Lethal, Less Domestic Support
Photo Credit: Center for Strategic and International Studies, Louai Beshara/AFP/Getty Images This February, Arab Gulf states engaged in talks with...
