Leaving Iran I was born in Tehran in 1982, in the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution in 1979. My mother, Zohreh, and my father, Abbas, as well as one (perhaps…

Enter Mindanao – the second-largest island in the Philippines, the heart of an archipelago stretching south toward Borneo and the site of one of the longest religiously framed conflicts in…

[Stalin’s] fear of western penetration [after World War II] featured even more strongly in the purge of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAFC). The JAFC was one of a number of…