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Two alphabets, one struggle: How Kurdish communities are building a digital future

Written by Eduardo Avila

27 August 2025

‘I painted so prison wouldn’t swallow us whole’: An interview with Iranian journalist Vida Rabbani

Written by Omid Memarian

19 August 2025

Is Iran’s water crisis fueled by military-backed illegal wells?

Written by Guest Contributor

28 July 2025

Pakistan’s strategic crossroads: From allies to anxieties

Written by Reza Talebi

21 July 2025

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Do all corridors lead to Haifa?

India’s ambitions and Israel’s covert plans align, transforming corridors into tools to sideline Iran’s influence

Written by Reza Talebi

16 September 2025

As summer temperatures soar, Iran's water crisis worsens

As dams dry and rivers vanish, Iran’s capital faces its fiercest thirst in modern memory.

Written by Reza Talebi

10 August 2025

Have the Kurds turned away from the quest for an autonomous state?

Abdullah Öcalan’s landmark declaration for the PKK to lay down arms ends decades of armed insurgency.

Written by Stephanie Almughrabi

8 August 2025

How African countries ranked on the World Economic Forum's gender gap report

Seven African countries are among the ten lowest-ranked nations worldwide in terms of gender parity

Written by Adesewa Olofinko

13 July 2025

Fluid forms of home: The resilient art of Delbar Shahbaz

‘Change is painful, but renewal lies beyond it. Movement and creation help me navigate this shift’

Written by Omid Memarian

9 July 2025

War, peace, and the price Iran paid

‘As bombs fall and regimes clash, the people remain unheard’

Written by Reza Talebi

25 June 2025

The leaks we missed

Leaks are meant to prevent, not just record, bloodshed

Written by Noor

25 June 2025

Collapse in the shadow of war: Is Iran Netanyahu’s next target?

This war isn’t about nuclear threats; it’s about breaking a nation open

Written by Reza Talebi

16 June 2025

Iran faces twin crises: Power grid on the brink and nutrition in decline

As power fails and nutrition falters, Iranians confront a summer of extreme heat, rolling outages, and dwindling access to basic food

Written by Iran Open Data Center

30 May 2025

The political meaning of football: From Salazar’s playbook to Iran's stadiums

Football is more than a game — it’s a battleground of memory, identity, and defiance, where emotions speak louder than state narratives

Written by Reza Talebi

25 May 2025

Iran’s Bandar Abbas blast: Sabotage, negligence, or symptom of collapse?

What if the true catastrophe isn't the explosion, but a nation too fractured to mourn it?

Written by Reza Talebi

9 May 2025

The countdown to Iran’s day zero: A crisis of water, not war

Environmental collapse, mismanagement, and ethno-political fault lines are converging in a slow-motion disaster caused by a water crisis

Written by UntoldMag, Reza Talebi

20 April 2025

How to save the Caspian Sea from turning into an environmental disaster

It could lose one third of its area by the end of the century

Written by Nurbek Bekmurzaev

3 March 2025

From the Tigris and Euphrates to the Nile: WANA’s unresolved water disputes

Decades of agreements and water-sharing deals have often exacerbated tensions rather than resolving them

Written by Raseef22

22 February 2025

Trade wars and military threats: The battle for economic influence in WANA

WANA nations are diversifying trade away from the US, but Trump’s economic and military pressures raise tensions, threatening to turn economic rivalry into conflict.

Written by Walid El Houri

14 February 2025

‘Embracing imperfection is key to artistic evolution': An interview with Iranian artist Sadegh Adham

'These works invite humanity on an aesthetic journey, free from political and social biases'

Written by Omid Memarian

7 February 2025

Power, myth, and the personal: A conversation with Iranian-American artist Shiva Ahmadi

The uncontrollable nature of watercolor 'perfectly conveys the instability that resonates with my experiences and themes'

Written by Omid Memarian

20 January 2025

How the UN Cybercrime Convention 2023 can pose a threat to human rights defenders and exiled journalists

Without adequate safeguards, the treaty could legitimize and facilitate the persecution of human rights defenders and journalists beyond national borders

Written by Guest Contributor

30 December 2024

The complex nature of Turkey's relations with Syria

With Assad's fall on December 8, Ankara has emerged as a winner and key negotiator between Western stakeholders and the new government in Syria

Written by Arzu Geybullayeva

24 December 2024

West Asia and North Africa in 2024: Turmoil, transformation, and trauma

The events of 2024 have reshaped the WANA region amid wars, political upheavals, and climate disasters.

Written by Walid El Houri

23 December 2024

Bringing ‘Pateh’ to the world: Sara Qashghai’s artistic reinterpretation of Iranian needlework

'I believe an artist cannot be untouched by social transformations'

Written by Omid Memarian

1 December 2024

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