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The following article on Islamophobia then and now was written by historian Alan Mikhail. It was featured on June 15 in Literary Hub. Susan Sontag implored us some 40 years...
Dr. Kaveh Madani
The Program in Iranian Studies at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale is pleased to announce its new Contemporary Iran Forum....
CAPE CORAL: Because of the coronavirus, Saudi Arabia finds itself fighting a war on two fronts. In addition to the battle against the pandemic itself, the kingdom is...
On April 30, several of the MacMillan Center’s councils and the Yale Law School collaborated on a webinar titled “Democracy and Rise of Authoritarianism in COVID-19 World”...
The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale is pleased to announce that Marcia Inhorn, the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of...
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On March 20, Algeria’s streets were empty for the first Friday since the formation of the momentous Hirak social movement, its activists staying home in light of the novel...
Hearing sad stories about home is nothing unusual for Iranian immigrants. We grow up with fear, tension, uncertainty, and conspiracy theories. Many of us migrate for peace,...