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Bilingualism: A Great Deception

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Ruzbeh Saadati  – September 7, 2025 How does the suppression of minoritized languages in childhood shape one’s sense of belonging, memory, a...

Pishevari: A Reflection on the Fragility of a Charisma

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  Ruzbeh Saadati  – September 4, 2025 Sayyed Ja'far Pishevari was an Iranian/South Azerbaijani politician best known for founding and le...

A Narrative of Suffering for the Sake of Alternative Possibilities

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Ruzbeh Saadati  – September 1, 2025 At its core, this story is of an ethnic Turkish Sunni activist from Iranian/South Azerbaijan navigating ...

The Skin of the Camel and Mash Hassan’s Cow

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Ruzbeh Saadati  – August 31, 2025 The mourners of Bayal depicts a society where poverty and frugality, superstition and compromise, alienat...

The Obedient Bodand the Forbidden Tongue; The Domain of a Politics

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 Ruzbeh Saadati  – August 30, 2025 Foucault begins Discipline and Punish with the account of a horrific scene: in 1757, in front of the Par...

A Memoryless House, a Storyless City; A Brief Reflection on Today’s Zanjan

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Ruzbeh Saadati – August 21, 2025 Historical Bazaar of Zanjan In Barcelona, Gaudí’s architecture and its spectacular buildings are not merel...

The West Failed Secularism in Karabakh. Can It Redeem Itself in Peace?

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 Ali Rıza Kuluncu - Aug 17, 2025 Ana Kasparian — Host at The Young Turks In recent years, I’ve come to doubt how secularism is truly unders...

The Politics of Queues: Scarcity, Rationing, and Drip Distribution

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Ruzbeh Saadati  – August 16, 2025 Queues turn scarcity into a tool of power, privilege, and control, training people to wait, hope, and obey...

The Seven-Year Pothole of Zanjan

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Ruzbeh Saadati  – August 6, 2025 Through the story of a seven-year-old pothole in Zanjan, this text reflects how neglected urban spaces beco...

Rethinking Politics Beyond the Constitutional Framework: A Reflection

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Ruzbeh Saadati  – Aug 5, 2025 First wave of executions of revolutionaries and citizens of Tabriz by Russian forces during their occupation o...

The Memory Destruction and Reconstruction Games within the Scope of Persianization Politics in Iran

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 Aug 05, 2025 Dr.  Artum Dinç The article, titled  “ The Memory Destruction and Reconstruction Games within the Scope of Persianization Poli...

Pezeshkian Brought Hope to Iranian Azerbaijanis — But What Next?

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   BBC Azerbaijan – July 29, 2025 From left to right, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Turkish Pr...

Father of the Nation: The Nostalgia for Obedience and Domination

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Ruzbeh Saadati  – July 28, 2025 Monarchy nostalgia turns politics into obedience over freedom. Monarchy, whether in its symbolic or absolute...

Lake Urmia: The Promises Are Still in Place!

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Ruzbeh Saadati  – July 25, 2025 Lake Urmia is just one of many cases where decades of empty promises have slowly eroded public hope. A dear ...

Lake Urmia "Could Completely Evaporate Within a Week"

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  BBC News Azerbaijan – July 24, 2025 The northern part of Lake Urmia could completely evaporate within a week. This warning was issued by ...

Faces of Injustice: Afghan Migrants and the Politics of Exclusion in Iran

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Ruzbeh Saadati  – July 7, 2025 Workers waiting for work “The face is the ultimate vulnerability of the Other. Peace with the face of the Oth...

The Ethnicization of Crime: A Sociological Reading of Elahe Hosseinnezhad’s Murder

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Etek Yazı – 9 June 2025 The Murder of Elahe Hosseinnezhad and the Ethnicization of Crime in Iran The murder of Elahe Hosseinnezhad has expos...

The Struggle for the Right to Turkish Names in South Azerbaijan

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June 1, 2025 Identification document In South Azerbaijan, the “Balamın Adı” (My Child’s Name) petition campaign seeks to amend Iran’s civil ...

Tractor SC complete journey to upset Iran’s establishment and claim historic title

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John Duerden  -  The Guardian -   Wed 14 May 2025  The pre-match show before Tractor’s home game against Nassaji Mazandaran in May. Photogra...

Iran’s Systematic Denial of Identity Documents for Children with Turkish Names

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March 19, 2025 The  Iranian identity booklet , also known as the  Shenasnameh In a blatant violation of human rights, Iran’s Civil Registrat...