Protests Continue In Iran Despite Crackdowns Current Analysis An Anthem from the Iranian Protests On September 27, 2022, Iranian musician Shervin Hajipour posted a song to his instagram compiled of tweets from Iranians detailing the reasons they are protesting. The song quickly went viral across social media. Within days of the video’s release, Shervin Hajipour had been arrested, and the origina Zuzanna Olszewska • 3 min read
MER Article Class Reshuffling Among Afghan Refugees in Iran When I was interviewing Afghan refugee writers and intellectuals in Iran in the mid-2000s, I soon realized that there was a gulf between their occupations and their aspirations. [1] The young poets who were the subjects of my research in the northeastern city of Mashhad often earned a living as manu Zuzanna Olszewska • 6 min read
MER Article Quetta's Sectarian Violence and the Global Hazara Awakening On a cold February day in London, over 40 Hazara men, women and children sat wrapped in blankets at the foot of the King George V monument opposite the Houses of Parliament. They were protesting the bombing of a vegetable market on February 16 in Quetta, Pakistan, that killed at least 91 of their br Zuzanna Olszewska • 16 min read
