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Vorya Hossein Panahi TazehabadThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
When people flee persecution, threats, or political repression, many assume that crossing a border marks the end of danger and the beginning of...
Not the silence that follows a scream. Not the silence after a protest has been crushed. But the silence that greets you before you even begin, the...
Some deaths demand to be witnessed. Baktash Abtin was a poet, a filmmaker, and a member of the Iranian Writers’ Association, an organization that...
People often tell refugees and exiles that they chose to leave. I have always found that statement misleading. Choice suggests freedom. It suggests...
People ask me sometimes: what do you want for Iran? I pause. Not because I don’t have an answer. But because the honest answer is complicated and...
Why I Believe in the Kurdish-Israeli Bond I am a Kurd. And I have spent years in exile, waiting for the world to remember that I exist. This is not a...
For years, I have lived with a reality that is difficult to explain to people who have never experienced it: uncertainty. Like many refugees and...
I write this from Turkey, where I have lived in a kind of suspended existence for years — neither home nor truly abroad. As an Iranian forced to...