Iran has fallen from 141st on the list of 180 countries to 168th – one of the most marked declines.
Countries where the political and security environment is particularly volatile, such as Yemen, Iran and Iraq rank at the bottom of the list. These countries face the challenge of establishing solid and [...]
Anti-government activists are not allowed to express themselves in Iranian media, so theses activists have taken their expressions to another high circulation mass-medium, banknotes. The Central Bank of Iran has tried to take these banknotes out of circulation, but there are just too many of them, and gave up. For the activists’ people [...]
Join Priya Assal and many other SF BayArea artists at Oakland’s Gallery 550
Nov 6th – 28th 2009
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Iceland has claimed the top spot of the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2009 from Norway which slipped to third position behind Finland. South Africa and Lesotho made great strides in closing their gender gaps to enter the top 10 for the first time. The report’s Index assesses countries on how [...]
An exhibition of 13 selected posters made by supporters of Green movement in Iran to encourage people to protest on Students’ day.
According to an unofficial Iranian state media, Fars, last year thousands of people gathered around the old US embassy walls that students scaled on November 4, 1979, chanting different [...]
Nomadic people are communities of people who move from one place to another, rather than settling permanently in one location. There are an estimated 30-40 million nomads in the world. Many cultures have traditionally been nomadic, but traditional nomadic behavior is increasingly rare in industrialized countries.