These Are the True Things

Between Bombs and Labels

A cri de coeur from the editor-in-chief of Shargh Newspaper Shahrzad Hemati

Feb 20 • Naghmeh Sohrabi

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All This Has Happened Before. But Will It Happen Again?

Pahlavi's promised referendum in 1979's mirror

Feb 14 • Naghmeh Sohrabi

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On the Catastrophe That is "Shut Up"

Is there a political implication for the uncivil discourse in and on Iran?

Feb 5 • Naghmeh Sohrabi

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January 2026

January 1979 to January 2026

The editorial that shut down Ham-Mihan newspaper in Iran

Jan 31 • Naghmeh Sohrabi

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From our Massacre to the Birth of a “We”

A translation of the economist Mohammad Maljoo's article about the possibility of hope in the midst of violence in Iran

Jan 29 • Naghmeh Sohrabi

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Everyday life is the only thing left when the protests die down

My essay in Equator magazine

Jan 18 • Naghmeh Sohrabi

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The Drumbeat of Revolution: A Short History of a Label

I’ve spent most of my career studying revolutions yet every time people are out in the streets in Iran and the Western media activates the Iran…

Jan 11 • Naghmeh Sohrabi

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My thoughts on Iran's situation as we wait for the internet blackout to end

As some of you know, in my last post I said I just couldn’t write here anymore.

Jan 9 • Naghmeh Sohrabi

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December 2025

Hello My Name is Holden and I'm Here to Say Goodbye

I'm just not in the mood these days

Dec 27, 2025 • Naghmeh Sohrabi

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September 2025

Things Aren't Great. Here Are Some Survival Tips

Or five useful hacks from 1980s Iran to make it through the winter of our discontent

Sep 14, 2025 • Naghmeh Sohrabi

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July 2025

One Was, One Wasn't یکی بود یکی نبود

The classic (and somewhat befuddling) start to fairytales in Persian

Jul 29, 2025 • Naghmeh Sohrabi

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"You OK?"

Some thoughts on friendship, death, and headless chickens two weeks after the Iran-Israel ceasefire.

Jul 9, 2025 • Naghmeh Sohrabi

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