Standing with the people first and foremost
This piece was originally published on Resistance Archive’s Substack on January 14, 2026 The protests now unfolding across Iran are being pulled into a familiar…
Iran
Wrestling with image and identity: Chalisée Naamani’s “Octogone” at Palais de Tokyo
In the hushed geometries of Paris’s Palais de Tokyo, amid the heavy silences of history and the noise of global turmoil, Chalisée Naamani’s new exhibition…
Nowhere / Everywhere: narratives of the diaspora
Migration today defies a straight line. It is no longer just East to West or West to East, or about survival and opportunity. It is…
The Life of an Itinerant Through a Pinhole
Behzad Khosravi Noori describes himself as a visual artist, archivist, necromancer, and educator – titles that offer a glimpse into the richly layered, almost mystical nature…
A History Felt in the Gut
On the eve of Nowruz, in 19th-century Qajar-era Iran, love between women could be formalised in secret. A ritual known as Sigheh Khahari—the sisterhood vow—involved…