‘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...
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...
Iran CounterPoint: Upcoming U.S. Presidential Elections & Iran
CounterPoint brings together thought leaders, experts, and opinion makers specializing on Iran: its society, economy and politics, and its position on the global scene. Participants will also make recommendations on Iran’s future trajectory and...
VIDEO: Actress Nazanin Boniadi Meets Refugees in Calais
By Ahmad Rafat
In July 2019, the British-Iranian actress Nazanin Boniadi visited refugee camps in Calais (France) and Dunkirk (UK), and met asylum seekers from Iran, Afghanistan and other countries. “Stateless” — a documentary film produced during...
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...
LA Celebrates Nowruz, The Persian New Year, in Style
By Fred Parvaneh
Nowruz (meaning 'new day' in Persian) is an ancient celebration rooted in Zoroastrianism that marks the beginning of the New Year. Nowruz coincides with the vernal equinox, meaning the first day of...
