A Bittersweet Persian New Year

It’s Alabama, 1963. A black woman stands before a judge, but she refuses to acknowledge his questions until he addresses her by the same honorific given to white women: “Miss.” That woman's name is Mary Hamilton. Her case eventually reached the Supreme Court and changed the court ...  Show more

Sinners has already broken records — it's the most Oscar-nominated film in the history of the Academy Awards. But is the movie itself actually historic? And what will its success mean for the future of Black filmmaking? This week, we're joined by Aisha Harris, a host of NPR's Pop ...  Show more

After the death of Gina Amini in Tehran, the situation in Iran is deteriorating, as a result of which many demonstrations are taking place both in Iran and in many countries around the world. Some members of the Kurdish community from East Kurdistan (Iran) living in Australia exp ...  Show more

‏هجوم إيران يشير إلى «عصبة جديدة من المستبدين» ... والسعودية تحتفي بغنى كنوزها وجمالياتها التاريخية 

The husband of a British-Iranian charity worker held in Iran since 2016 has been on hunger strike again to push for her release. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been held there on spying charges, which she denies. Ros Atkins looks at how her story is part of a complicated history b ...  Show more

On August 5th, Iran inaugurated a new president putting an end to the 8-year presidency of reformist  Hassan Rouhani and ushered in a new, hard-line government.

The new president, Ebrahim Raisi is said to be handpicked by the supreme leader Ali Khamenei, the man who con ...