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Maryam Palizban. Photo by Yana Kaziulia, used with permission. This story is part of a series called “Portraits of exile” that delves into the experiences of Iranian women in the diaspora as they pursue freedom and showcase their resilience. The story comes as a commemoration of the tragic passing of Mahsa Jina Amini, a Kurdish woman who was killed at the age of 22 at the hands of the morality police for not fully covering her hair. This incident ignited widespread protests in Iran, which persist to this day despite escalating government oppression. Maryam Palizban and I were both students at ...
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Demonstration in Amman Jordan, near the Israeli embassy on April 5, 2025 in support of Gaza. Screenshot from a video on Sameer Mashhour's Twitter feed. Fair use. This article was originally published in Gulf Center for Human Rights on April 5, 2024. An edited version is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement, with links to provide further clarification. The streets of Jordan are witnessing a massive wave of tension and anger over current political events and the war in Gaza. This has led to thousands of Jordanian citizens taking to the streets, expressing their sol...
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Mohammed at the site of his destroyed lab in May 2021. It was bombed in an Israeli strike, destroying with it his years of patient work in medical innovations. Photo provided by Mohammed, used with permission. I met Mohammad in 2018 while interning at a digital fabrication lab in Amman, Jordan. It was late afternoon, and the lab was almost deserted. Two men were playfully experimenting with the laser cutter, trying to figure out how it worked while sharing a moment of fun. Intrigued, I approached them to see if they needed any help figuring it out. They seemed to have navigated their way aroun...
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The author's four-generation land and home were destroyed by Israeli F16 rockets in January, reducing it to rubble. Photo provided by the author, used with permission. On January 12, a message arrived from my sister in Gaza, bearing the devastating news: our parents’ home, a sanctuary of memories, had been razed by Israeli F16 rockets, reducing our beloved home to rubble. This is no ordinary house. Within its walls, I took my first uncertain steps, and my laughter and tears echoed through its very foundations. It was sacred ground, where I grew up alongside my beloved siblings, cocooned in a w...
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Image by Arzu Geybullayeva Animal rights activists in Turkey are dissatisfied with a sentence handed to Ibrahim Keloğlan, a man who kicked a stray cat named Eros to death in December 2023. On March 13, the court sentenced Keloğlan to three years in prison, but citing good behavior, that was reduced to a two-year and six-month suspended sentence with no jail time and a travel ban. Social media has been abuzz with the hashtag #erosiçinadalet (justice for Eros). #erosiçinadalet pic.twitter.com/FRsR4OvqnV — mahirgra (@mahirgra) March 13, 2024 Keloğlan was first charged on February 8 and given a se...
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‘The Zone of Interest’ director Jonathan Glazer condemns Israel-Hamas war in Oscar speech. 11 March 2024. Screenshot from a video by NBC News. Fair use This article was originally published in the New Arab on March 11, 2024. It is republished on Global Voices as part of a content partnership agreement. The Zone of Interest director Jonathan Glazer slammed the misuse of “Jewishness” and the denounced the war in Gaza on Sunday, during his acceptance speech as he picked up an Academy Award, better known as an Oscar, for Best International Film. Glazer, who was joined on stage by producer James Wi...
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A poster that a youthful Abubaker Abed made in support of the Chelsea football club. Photo by Abubaker Abed, used with permission. This story, written by Abubaker Abed, was originally published by We Are Not Numbers on February 8, 2024. It was updated and revised after an interview on WhatsApp between the author and Global Voices on March 12, 2024. It is published here as part of a content-sharing agreement with Global Voices. When the Chelsea football club chose sides with Israel in its war on Gaza, it broke the heart of a young Gazan fan. We support killing Abubaker and every Palestinian Che...
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Graffiti paintings on the Israeli West Bank barrier by Banksy near Qalandia – July 2005. Photo by Szater on Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain. Note: This post contains graphic imagery in the links, which may be disturbing to some readers. During my childhood living in Jerusalem and the West Bank, I absorbed the lessons taught in elementary school that painted a picture of justice prevailing in the universe. However, my experiences at the Qalandia checkpoint, where Israeli soldiers treated Palestinian children and adults going to school and work with hostility, made me question these teachings. ...
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This story is part of Undertones, Global Voices’ Civic Media Observatory‘s newsletter. Subscribe to Undertones. Welcome back to Undertones, where we study narratives from around the world. Since the end of 2023, the Civic Media Observatory has started a new project focusing on data governance. But we still have some important stories from our Community Observatory to share. One of them comes from our researcher from Gaza, who's now living abroad but has helped us make sense of the conflict since it started. In December, we published an analysis of critical narratives coming from Israel. This t...
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New Year Countdown 2024 in Penang, Malaysia. Screenshot from a video by Miswanto Suliman. Fair use. This story, written by Basma Almaza, was initially published by We Are Not Numbers on January 26, 2024, as a personal narrative amid the relentless bombardment ***f Gaza by Israel\. It is published as part of a content\-sharing agreement with Global Voices\.* Until I turned 17 in Gaza, I thought my life was ordinary. That’s when I realized traveling abroad wasn’t just a journey; it entailed enduring a thousand deaths — facing borders and experiencing psychological torment that cuts deep into the...
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