by Jose Rosales — 27November2023 The following interview with Francesco Saverio Leopardi took place on 27 October 2023 and covers a range of issues related to the ‘Question of Palestine’ — from Israel’s ongoing siege against the Gaza strip and the discourse regarding a “two-state solution” in light of a…

by Kanaan Mukhtar — 24November2023 After ten years of marriage and with two daughters aged five and seven, “Marzieh,” a 36-year-old woman, had no choice but to return to her father’s house. Her husband is neither deceased nor officially separated from her, but they haven’t seen each other for two…

by Farzad Seifikaran — 19November2023 In the southern port city of Mahshahr, Iran, during the nationwide protests of 2019, government forces deployed artillery weapons to target protesters who had sought refuge inside a canebrake. …

by Ghazaleh Motamed — 2November2023 Throughout these years, the humanity of Afghan people has been stripped away, and a systematic apartheid against Afghans has been in progress. …

by Mahtab Divsalar — 18October2023 Investigation Reveals Thousands Who Bought ‘Golden Passports’ From Dominica OCCRP, the Washington D.C.-based nonprofit the Government Accountability Project, and more than a dozen media partners have obtained the names of 7,700 people who bought into Dominica’s ‘citizenship by investment’ program which allows the purchase of a passport for a base price of $100,000. These…

by Zamaneh Media — 6October2023 Narges Mohammadi’s brave fight for freedom, women’s rights, and the promotion of human rights in Iran did not go unnoticed by the Nobel Committee. On Friday October 6th, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced Iranian human rights and women’s rights activist, Narges Mohammadi, the winner of…

by Jose Rosales — 5October2023 On May 1st, 1974 — two years into Ferdinand Marcos’ twenty one year US-backed military dictatorship, Ferdinand E. Marcos “signed Presidential Decree no.442 into law, inaugurating the Philippines’ state-sponsored labor export policy.” Intended as a means “to afford protection to labor, promote employment and human…

by Farzad Seifikaran — 4October2023 Informed sources have told Zamaneh that Armita Geravand, the 16-year-old student who “lost consciousness” in the metro at Shohada Station in Tehran and was transferred to the Air Force’s Fajr Hospital Sunday morning is still in a “coma.” According to an informed source, the ICU…

by Jose Rosales — 28September2023 The historically diverse composite of differing ethnic groups in what is known as the Caucuses is a result of the region’s location at the crossroads of three empires: Russian, Ottoman, and Persian. Such diversity can be seen in Nikolaus von Seidlitz’s 1881 map with its…