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‘I’m a soldier. I don’t have a gun, but I have a pen and a camera’: Mahnaz Mohammadi on fighting the Iranian regime

The director and activist on her fictional drama Roya, drawing on her experience of imprisonment and torture, and why even in Europe she feels unsafe

The Guardian - UK

No cheer on Nowruz : Iranians to mark new year with prayers & remembrance

Alongside the customary seven symbolic elements placed on the table, which represent renewal, beauty, health and prosperity, many are placing photographs of those killed in the recent mass protests and in the ongoing war, turning the ritual into an act of tribute. “Nowruz celebration this time is definitely not like…

The Times of India

The secret Afghan women’s book club defying the Taliban to read Orwell

Banned from education, a clandestine reading circle meets every week to pore over novels by Abbas Maroufi, Zoya Pirzad and Ernest Hemingway

The Guardian - UK

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‘It will take a generation’: Iranians abroad on the protests – and change

We asked some of those who have family in Iran to tell us their views on the current crisis

The Guardian - UK

Victims of Iran’s 2022 crackdown file criminal complaint against 40 officials

Claim filed in Argentina alleges crimes against humanity were carried out on Women, Life, Freedom protesters

The Guardian - UK

Shock, fear in Tehran after Israel bombs residential, military areas

The largest attacks on Tehran’s suburbs since the 1980s have stoked worries about what might come next.

Al Jazeera

Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar review – riotous tale of a grieving son

A bereaved man’s unhealthy obsessions are upended by a dying artist in the Iranian-American poet’s kaleidoscopic debut novel

The Guardian - UK

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EastEnders fans predict Shabnam Masood's return after MAJOR clue drops

EastEnders fans want Shabnam Masood to return after Dean Wicks gave an update on their daughter Jade Green.

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Iran Resorts to Security Cameras, Ostracism to Deter Unveiled Women

Wary of re-igniting Iran's worst political turmoil in years, the country's rulers are resorting to new, less obtrusive tactics to punish women who refuse to wear the obligatory hijab. The methods, introduced following nationwide anti-government protests last year, combine use of security cameras with denial of state services to violators,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran resorts to security cameras, ostracism to deter unveiled women

Wary of re-igniting Iran's worst political turmoil in years, the country's rulers are resorting to new, less obtrusive tactics to punish women who refuse to wear the obligatory Islamic hijab.

Reuters

Women forced to sell possessions just to give birth one year on from Taliban takeover

The Taliban took over Afghanistan exactly one year ago after Western forces retreated from the country and allowed the group to gain a foothold in the state once again

Daily Mirror

Jordan university sexual harassment sparks national conversation

Allegations against a university professor have led to a growing movement to tackle the issue.

Al Jazeera

New mum in shock after giving birth to one-in-200million identical triplets

Zahra Amirabadi, 28, was constantly tired during her pregnancy, napping twice a day and struggling to sleep at night - before realising she was carrying not one but three babies

Daily Mirror

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