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1 month ago | 
qantara.de | Karim El-Gawhary |Karim el-Gawhary |Ceyda Nurtsch |Ali Sadrzadeh |Birgit Svensson
Women's rights in Syria · 06.03.2025 At the end of February, the highly anticipated National Dialogue Conference took place in Damascus. Did the meeting meet expectations? Karim El-Gawhary talked to women's rights activists on the ground before and after the event. https://qantara.de/en/node/44311 Print The small demonstration in front of the old Hejaz train station in the centre of Damascus seems a little lost.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Omid Rezaee |Ali Fathollah-Nejad |Gerrit Wustmann |Ali Sadrzadeh
Nurses on strike in Iran · 24.09.2024 In Iran, nurses are on strike to protest miserable living standards and stressful working conditions. Desperation is driving many abroad, and some to suicide. https://qantara.de/en/node/44164 Print For weeks, nurses have been gathering in their hundreds across Iran. Videos and pictures from several cities have been widely circulating on social media. With slogans like “Where is our money?
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Ali Sadrzadeh |Ali Fathollah-Nejad
Iranian parliament approves cabinet · 22.08.2024 The cabinet of new Iranian president Massoud Pezeshkian has disappointed those who voted for change. Pezeshkian’s voters had only modest expectations – less oppression of women and easier access to the internet – but in the Islamic Republic, everything remains the same.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Ali Sadrzadeh
Iran and Israel · 06.08.2024 The assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyah is a drastic event. The Islamic Republic seems determined to take revenge, and a new armed conflict against Israel cannot be ruled out. In addition, everything the new president had promised is obsolete for the time being.
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May 22, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Ali Fathollah-Nejad |Stefan Buchen |Ali Sadrzadeh
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei led prayers for the late President Ebrahim Raisi on Wednesday as huge crowds thronged the capital Tehran for his funeral procession. Flanked by top officials, Khamenei said prayers over the coffins of the eight dead from Sunday's helicopter crash, who also included Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.
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May 16, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Ali Fathollah-Nejad |Ali Sadrzadeh |Stefan Buchen
Parliamentary elections in Iran · 16.05.2024 Regime and society in Iran remain on a collision course with the actual turnout in the second round of Iran's parliamentary election last week estimated to have fallen below 40 per cent. https://qantara.de/en/node/43930 Print On 10 May, the second round of the parliamentary election took place in Iran.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Ali Sadrzadeh |Omar Albam |Burak Ünveren
Russia's conflicts with Islamist forces over half a century are key to understanding the likely motives behind an Islamic State (IS) massacre last month at a Moscow concert hall, analysts say. From the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 to Russian involvement in Syria and Africa and the Kremlin's links with Iran, Moscow has often played a role in conflicts involving radical Islamist interests.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Gerrit Wustmann |Ali Sadrzadeh |René Wildangel |Djavad Salehi-Isfahani
Iran elections · 28.02.2024 Banned from the streets, the protests in Iran continue. This week's elections will reflect just how much – or how little – popular support the Islamic Republic still enjoys https://qantara.de/en/node/43564 Print On 1 March 2024, Iran will hold a double election: for the parliament as well as for the Assembly of Experts.
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Dec 30, 2023 | 
qantara.de | Shahid Javed Burki |Ali Sadrzadeh |Jannis Hagmann |Musa Bagrac
Sunnis and Shias in Islam · 30.12.2023 Toby Matthiesen's new book, "The Caliph and the Imam", explores both the origins of the Sunni-Shia divide, what the two branches of Islam have in common and how the split has shaped the Islamic world https://qantara.de/en/node/43120 Print The history of intra-Islamic relations is both complex and complicated, in particular relations between Sunnis and Shias. Why is that?
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Sep 30, 2023 | 
newagebd.net | Ali Sadrzadeh
Prominent voices from within the Islamic Republic’s inner circle of power – once spokesmen for the most radical factions – are now vehement in their criticism of Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader. They used the first anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death to drive home their condemnation, writes Ali SadrzadehFEARED or longed for, the first anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death has come and gone. The day was marked neither by eagerly awaited mass protests nor by a revolutionary uprising.
