Iran

Shahram Khosravi examines the mass deportation of Afghan migrants from Iran and the state violence that sustains it. He argues that the construction of migrants as threats obscures deeper conditions of economic insecurity, corruption and repression. In place of the nation-state’s promise of resolution through borders, the text calls for shared responsibility, solidarity and coexistence.
Migration and border crossing have long shaped the work of photographer Zobair Movahhed. In Hijr, he joins migrants travelling across the Iran–Afghanistan border, attending to both the visible and obscured dimensions of this perilous journey.
Felestine Square in Tehran and its monument have long served as a stage for state-organised demonstrations against Israel. Through the histories surrounding the monument and the shifting relationship between Iran and Palestine, Behzad Khosravi Noori asks how meaningful solidarity with Palestine can be articulated without reproducing the propaganda of another regime.