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Vorya Hossein Panahi Tazehabad

Vorya Hossein Panahi Tazehabad

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Digital Exile: Distance Does Not End the Threat

When people flee persecution, threats, or political repression, many assume that crossing a border marks the end of danger and the beginning of...

21.06.2026 40

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Vorya Hossein Panahi Tazehabad

The World’s Silence is Not Neutral — It is a Choice

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...

13.06.2026 50

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Vorya hossein panahi tazehabad

A Poet Who Died Twice. Once in Prison, Once in Silence

Some deaths demand to be witnessed. Baktash Abtin was a poet, a filmmaker, and a member of the Iranian Writers’ Association, an organization that...

07.06.2026 60

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Vorya hossein panahi tazehabad

My Country Didn’t Lose Me. It Pushed Me Away.

People often tell refugees and exiles that they chose to leave. I have always found that statement misleading. Choice suggests freedom. It suggests...

04.06.2026 50

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Vorya hossein panahi tazehabad

After the Fall: Will Iran Be Free or Just Different?

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...

03.06.2026 40

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Vorya hossein panahi tazehabad

Two Peoples, One Pain

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...

02.06.2026 60

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Vorya hossein panahi tazehabad

The Cost of Waiting: A Refugee’s Perspective from Turkey

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...

01.06.2026 30

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Vorya hossein panahi tazehabad

When Borders Become Prisons

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...

01.06.2026 60

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Vorya hossein panahi tazehabad