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...
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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...
Monday Briefing | September 20
Photo credit: Arash Khamooshi for The New York Times Stories to follow A new report from the International Atomic Energy Agency revealed...
What Does the Abraham Accord Mean for India?
On August 13, Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced normalization of their relations. This deal, known as the Abraham...
