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From the sounds of drums and tambourines, it was understood that they had arrived; a caravan of about one hundred women, children, and men who announced their entry into the city with dancing and singing. The mother would say, “The summer travelers are coming after their long journey.” It was the same every year; the […]...

Many women who are carton sleepers, even if they are young, have experienced pregnancy and motherhood. Some of them are mothers who have left their children with their families and relatives, some have given birth to stillborn babies, and some have been forced to sell their children. The following report provides a brief overview of […]...

For years, laws have imposed strict regulations on female dormitories. In the latest regulations of some universities, the curfew for female dormitories has been reduced to the time of Maghrib prayer, officially depriving female students of the ability to be present in the city and university after class hours and making the city more masculine […]...

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A dog has taken my head along with all its thoughtful worms   that squirm and bite   Yes! You — O thousand-year-old rusted robe — they nailed you to the wall and entrusted the endless delirium of your out-of-tune nights to the sun, so that its shadow, deep in your darkness, would become the […]...

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Guarding while sleeping and stealing belongings. If we were to present an image of the Islamic Republic of Iran, we cannot simply mention the three branches of government, the parliament, and the judiciary. Sovereignty here is made up of various, conflicting, and parallel aspects, each of which operates below or beyond the law. Institutions such […]...

Charity boxes of the Relief Committee are everywhere. It is rare for someone to have spent a day in the streets of Iranian cities and not come across one of these boxes; boxes that are said to “remove seventy calamities”. This saying is based on narrations from the Prophet of Islam and also the Shia […]...

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