Remembering Marjane Satrapi, Author of Persepolis (1969-2026)
IN MEMORIUM: Marjane Satrapi, Rasht, Iran 1969 – Paris, France 2026.
Iran
Rehearsals for a Revolution
IRAN: Across five portraits spanning half a century, Rehearsals for a Revolution turns private loss into public memory, showing how Iran’s resistance movements continue to return after every crackdown.
Rehearsals for a Revolution
IRAN: Is a revolution against an entrenched military dictatorship possible? Iranians have attempted it multiple times.
Surviving the Death Committee
IRAN: A decades-long pursuit of accountability turns personal grief into political evidence, tracing how survivors, exiles, and chance encounters forced a hidden massacre into public view.
Cutting Through Rocks
IRAN: Set in rural Iran yet reaching far beyond it, this is a quietly incendiary portrait of female autonomy under pressure.
If I Must Die
GAZA: Refaat Alareer’s life under siege in Gaza, his viral poem If I Must Die, and a case for words as resistance when the world refuses to listen.
Gaza Genocide: A Collective Crime
GAZA: On Francesca Albanese’ fifth report to the UN Human Rights Council.
Generation Gaza: Among the Israelis in India
ISRAEL: Among Himalaya backpackers, Israelis process 7 October, Gaza memories, and identity crisis—numbed by drugs, haunted by politics, searching elusive peace.
Cutting Through Rocks
IRAN In a conservative Iranian village, one divorced woman’s political rise sparks fierce resistance, gendered repression, and bold feminist defiance.
No One Sleeps
IRAN: Exploring resilience and empowerment as Negar Sammaknejad conquers Mount Damavand, uniting Persian heritage and modern feminism.
Turkey’s military-industrial complex
MILITARISM: Techno-nationalism has strengthened Turkey’s proactive foreign policy, promoted national pride and reinforced the image of a powerful state. The ‘zero problems with neighbours’ paradigm that characterised Turkish foreign policy in the 2000s has been abandoned in favour of a more interventionist approach under the doctrine of ‘security at all costs’. In 2002, the total volume of defence industry projects was a modest USD 5.5 billion – by 2023, it will rise to over USD 96 billion.