• first person

• 01 Apr

Finding my community around the Sizdah Bedar sofreh

Shiler Mahmoudi

• culture

• 27 Sep

Tara Fatehi Irani is the Iranian performance artist mishandling archives to set them free

Diyora Shadijanova

• first person

• 04 Aug

Why I’m no longer calling myself Persian

Parisa Hashempour

• culture

• 05 Jul

Sara Jafari’s The Mismatch examines Muslim guilt around sexual desire

Sahar Esfandiari

• first person

• longreads

• 27 Nov

Middle Eastern looks are ‘trending’, but where does that leave Middle Eastern women?

Parisa Hashempour

• gal-dem

• politics

• 14 Jan

War can never be feminist: why America’s concern for liberating Iranian women is an imperialist scam

Maedeh Sharifi

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• gal-dem

• politics

• 22 Jun

Richard Ratcliffe’s hunger strike marks years of fighting to free Nazanin

Pascale Frazer-Carroll

• gal-dem

• music

• 05 Jul

Nadia Tehran and personal revolution: living on the borderlines in ‘Refugee’ video

Mogjan N