On July 16, 2025, Iran approved a new bylaw creating a tiered internet system, granting unrestricted access to select users with political or institutional ties. Despite promises to loosen controls, digital rights advocates say the policy deepens censorship and creates a “class-based” internet.| Zamaneh Media
A question often posed by non-Tajik readers and scholars is: Why read Bahmanyar? Some may even ask, who is Bahmanyar? Bahmanyar, a prominent Tajik writer, achieved significant recognition from the early 1980s to the late 2000s, marking the peak of his literary career. During the period of perestroika through the early 2000s, Bahmanyar’s name was […]| Zamaneh Media
This is the transcript of a video interview with Mehran Mostafavi, a political commentator and professor of chemistry and physics| Zamaneh Media
This report is translated by Children of Imprisoned Parents International (COIPI) in collaboration with Radio Zamaneh. It has been more| Zamaneh Media
Phoebe Beasley, renowned for her work in collage, is the fifth artist in our blog series. Maya Angelou was a close friend and mentor to Beasley. In 1998, they completed a collaborative project by publishing a limited-edition book. Angelou chose a series of poems by Langston Hughes and wrote a foreword. Beasley illustrated the poems in a corresponding series of collages, which were then printed as serigraphs (also known as silkscreens) for the book. It was titled Sunrise is Coming After While,...| Special Collections & Museums