Bahman Zare’ Jurani was born in Urmia in 1988 and only completed the second grade of elementary school. Before joining…
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At sixteen, Helya Abdollahi, a teenage girl from Sanandaj, found herself struggling with depression and isolation, a result of family…
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The events following 9/11 ushered in a new phase for the concept of self-defense, where non-state threats, such as Kurdish…
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Aryan Esmaeili: “My childhood was truly bitter. I had neither a family to support me nor a home I could…
In the shadow of strict traditions and a closed cultural environment in Iran’s border regions, the fate of women sometimes…