‘All Totalitarian Rules Eventually End’: An Interview with Reza Pahlavi
By Nazenin Ansari
Since December 2017, workers, teachers, pensioners and ordinary people from all walks of life have been staging protests in cities and towns across Iran. They have been voicing their anger at the...
British-Iranian Voters Courted by UK Labour Party Ahead of Dec. 12 Election
By Nazenin Ansari
Iran has been all but absent from the campaign for the UK general election due on Thursday Dec. 12, despite the nationwide protests and bloodshed in Iran over rising fuel prices. One...
Iranian Personalities, Former U.S. Officials Commemorate Holocaust on Clubhouse
By Nazenin Ansari
A week after Iran became the only country at the United Nations General Assembly to dissociate itself from a resolution against Holocaust denial, a broad group of Iranian personalities and former US...
Afshin Naghouni: Art in the Age of Corona
By Nazenin Ansari
https://youtu.be/E5EZcASwaao
Afshin Naghouni’s new body of work “An Abstract Sense of Life” has just gone on show in London. It was painted during the period of lockdown when a deafening silence fell on...
Iranian Women’s Fight for Their Rights: Interview with Author Manda Zand Ervin
By Nazenin Ansari
Manda Zand was born in Boroujerd, the capital of Lorestan, in the western Zagros mountains. She traces her paternal lineage to the Zand tribe, historically famous for its courageous women who fought...
Women’s Rights & Sexuality in Revolutionary Iran: Interview with Novelist Ingrid Leksand
By Nazenin Ansari
Born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1960, Ingrid Leksand (not the author's real name) moved to the UK with her family when she was five years old. Her father was an engineer whose...
Exclusive Interview with Prince Reza Pahlavi: “I Expressed My Political and Ideological Principles”
By Nazenin Ansari
In an audio file published on social media in the closing days of the Iranian year (ending March 20), Reza Pahlavi, the son of the late Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (1919-1980), spoke...
Breaking the Barriers to Gender Equality: Interview with Author Nina Ansary
By Nazenin Ansari
Did you know that the world’s first chemist was a woman?
Or that the first female astronomer and the first female mathematician were both from the Middle East?
These are some of the revelations...
From Cassandra Project to Shoshana Mission: Interview with Dr. Amir Hamidi
By Nazenin Ansari
The U.S. special envoy for Iran Robert Malley — who has led more than a year of indirect talks with the Iranian government team in Vienna — issued the following tweet on...
Kayhan Life’s Nazenin Ansari Speaks to the BBC about Olympic Medalist Kimia Alizadeh and...
By Natasha Phillips
Kayhan Life's Nazenin Ansari Tells the BBC's World Service that the defection of Iran's only Female Olympic medalist from the Islamic Republic is a significant development in the movement calling out the...
