Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Yass Alizadeh

The writer is an Iranian-American academic and a Professor of Persian Language and Literature at New York University.

A Year After Mahsa Amini’s Tragic Death, Resistance Is Alive In...

On a late summer day, four days before her 23rd birthday, Mahsa Jina Amini was visiting her family in Iran's capital city of Tehran, when she was arrested. She was forcibly placed into a van and transported to the Hijab police headquarters where she...

No, Iran’s ‘Morality Police’ Has Not Been Disbanded. Here’s Why This...

A three-day strike is being observed by merchants across Iran starting Monday. To distract attention from the vast support that this strike has been receiving on social media, the Iranian regime spread false information about Hijab patrol or what is wrongly translated to English...

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TLP Workers Attack Ahmadi...

Workers of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) attacked a hundred-year-old Ahmadi place of worship in Ghughiat, Sargodha, allegedly in the presence...

Finance Minister Declares Critics...

As the rupee slumped to a historic low of 285.09 against the dollar, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Thursday...

4 Dead As PTI...

Four deaths and more than a dozen injuries have been reported in Peshawar as Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's (PTI) protest in...

Abducted Baloch Woman Says...

An elderly woman, who was abducted from Quetta on February 2nd along with her son Muhammad Rahim Zehri and...

9-year-old Disabled Child Raped,...

In a second such incident reported this month, a nine-year-old disabled child was found raped and murdered in Karachi's...

Pakistan’s Human Rights Situation...

The United States has said that the human rights situation in Pakistan under the current government remains a cause...

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A United Nations expert has informed the Human Rights Council that she considers Israel's...

Here’s Why The Results Of Today’s Elections Are Totally Irrelevant

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