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Iran Heritage Foundation presents Bahman Mohassess: ​the Poet, the Craftsman and the Prince​. Lecture by Morad Montazami

Initiative inédite, cette semaine culturelle fera vivre Paris au rythme d’Ispahan pendant sept jours. Débats, conférences, projections cinématographiques, gastronomie, expositions, concerts.

Qantara – Fifteen years ago, on 20 March 2003, the United States and its allies invaded Iraq. Iraqi novelist and poet Sinan Antoon describes the pain of watching his country disintegrate in the aftermath, made all […]

Dariush Shayegan, one of the Islamic world’s foremost philosophers, died at the age of 83 in Tehran.

Sending a message Qantara – This year’s Film Festival Turkey Germany has kicked off without any financial backing from Turkey. Ankara withdrew funding at the last minute from an event that it seems to perceive as […]

 Every year, Nowruz coincides with the start of spring and traditionally celebrates the rebirth of nature. It also coincides with the spring equinox.

“The woman question,” she wrote, “is nothing more or less than a question of human rights. That the emancipation of woman means in reality the emancipation of the human being within her.’”

On the occasion of International Women’s Rights Day, FIDH is launching a website page presenting 101 shocking statistics on sexist violence and discrimination against women worldwide.

This is no utopia. We still have our problems. Power inequalities still exist. Parliamentary democracy is just one, and not necessarily the best, way of doing democracy.

Just One Slap? is a French creative non-fiction about Katya in her thirties and mother of baby Zoe, victims of domestic violence in France. It focuses on physical and psychological violence of Katya’s former partner, as well as the institutional violence directed against them.