We travel not for trafficking alone

Wednesday, 18 March 2026

Iran, Iran, Iran

on March 18, 2026

Email This BlogThis!Share to X Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest

Labels: The weekly round up

No comments:

About Me

Farzana Rasheed: Islamabad , Pakistan; I started this blog during my master's degree (Violence Conflict and Development at SOAS) and, since then it's mostly been about evening walks, meticulously recorded with photography and notes, cooking tales, bringing up my daughter Kavita, everyday travails and headaches, some political commentary and anecdotes.

View my complete profile

Blog Archive

► 2008 (12)
- ► November (8)
- ► December (4)

► 2009 (42)
- ► January (2)
- ► February (3)
- ► March (5)
- ► April (4)
- ► May (6)
- ► June (4)
- ► July (7)
- ► August (4)
- ► October (5)
- ► November (1)
- ► December (1)

► 2010 (39)
- ► January (3)
- ► February (2)
- ► March (3)
- ► April (3)
- ► May (2)
- ► June (2)
- ► July (4)
- ► August (4)
- ► September (4)
- ► October (4)
- ► November (4)
- ► December (4)

► 2011 (22)
- ► May (3)
- ► June (5)
- ► July (2)
- ► August (2)
- ► October (4)
- ► November (5)
- ► December (1)

► 2012 (53)
- ► January (2)
- ► February (6)
- ► March (4)
- ► April (2)
- ► May (6)
- ► June (1)
- ► July (5)
- ► August (7)
- ► October (6)
- ► November (11)
- ► December (3)

► 2013 (96)
- ► January (1)
- ► February (2)
- ► March (5)
- ► April (3)
- ► May (10)
- ► June (10)
- ► July (12)
- ► August (15)
- ► September (4)
- ► October (11)
- ► November (9)
- ► December (14)

► 2014 (134)
- ► January (3)
- ► February (6)
- ► March (14)
- ► April (23)
- ► May (10)
- ► June (8)
- ► July (15)
- ► August (8)
- ► September (7)
- ► October (15)
- ► November (3)
- ► December (22)

► 2015 (117)
- ► January (13)
- ► February (8)
- ► March (6)
- ► May (7)
- ► June (17)
- ► July (21)
- ► August (12)
- ► September (6)
- ► October (12)
- ► November (10)
- ► December (5)

► 2016 (149)
- ► January (9)
- ► February (24)
- ► March (14)
- ► April (18)
- ► May (14)
- ► June (11)
- ► July (15)
- ► August (17)
- ► September (9)
- ► October (9)
- ► November (5)
- ► December (4)

► 2017 (94)
- ► January (10)
- ► February (8)
- ► March (12)
- ► April (2)
- ► May (5)
- ► June (9)
- ► July (1)
- ► August (6)
- ► September (14)
- ► October (15)
- ► November (6)
- ► December (6)

► 2018 (144)
- ► January (8)
- ► February (11)
- ► March (15)
- ► April (11)
- ► May (3)
- ► June (6)
- ► July (8)
- ► August (11)
- ► September (28)
- ► October (15)
- ► November (15)
- ► December (13)

► 2019 (91)
- ► January (8)
- ► February (5)
- ► March (10)
- ► April (9)
- ► May (12)
- ► June (4)
- ► July (12)
- ► August (9)
- ► September (5)
- ► October (5)
- ► November (5)
- ► December (7)

► 2020 (81)
- ► January (5)
- ► February (6)
- ► March (18)
- ► April (10)
- ► May (4)
- ► June (2)
- ► July (4)
- ► August (2)
- ► September (7)
- ► October (4)
- ► November (10)
- ► December (9)

► 2021 (78)
- ► January (5)
- ► February (15)
- ► March (10)
- ► April (9)
- ► May (6)
- ► July (5)
- ► September (8)
- ► October (7)
- ► November (5)
- ► December (8)

► 2022 (93)
- ► January (2)
- ► February (3)
- ► March (5)
- ► April (1)
- ► May (5)
- ► June (7)
- ► July (10)
- ► August (13)
- ► September (15)
- ► October (17)
- ► November (9)
- ► December (6)

► 2023 (85)
- ► January (4)
- ► February (3)
- ► March (13)
- ► April (13)
- ► May (12)
- ► June (3)
- ► July (4)
- ► August (8)
- ► September (14)
- ► October (6)
- ► November (3)
- ► December (2)

► 2024 (19)
- ► February (1)
- ► March (1)
- ► April (1)
- ► May (1)
- ► June (9)
- ► July (1)
- ► August (2)
- ► September (3)

► 2025 (154)
- ► January (3)
- ► March (7)
- ► April (1)
- ► May (16)
- ► June (22)
- ► July (35)
- ► August (23)
- ► September (16)
- ► October (13)
- ► November (6)
- ► December (12)

▼ 2026 (19)
- ► January (2)
- ► February (1)
- ▼ March (16)

Labels

A Doodle a Day
Ami School
Anecdotes
Corona Times
If you think about it
International Alert
Kavita
Kitchen Tales
Life elsewhere
Life in Liberia
My blog
My Spaces
Notes on a Masters Degree
Pearls of Wisdom
Political Rants
Running a Business in Liberia
Seeds and Gardens and Bottle and Cans and Teabags
Talking Movies
Tea Reading and Books
The weekly round up
Why should we talk politics?

Report Abuse

Visitor's Map

Total Pageviews

Followers

My Blog List

Hyperallergic

Louvre Museum to Install Locks on Doors After Heist - Visitors will be checked for bobby pins and paper clips, which pose the greatest threat to the new "state-of-the-art entry inhibition protocol," the securi...
5 hours ago
Madras Courier

The Strait of Hormuz And The New Economics Of Uncertainty - The Strait of Hormuz, the chokepoint through which a fifth of the world’s oil passes, is now firmly under Iran’s control. The post The Strait of Hormuz An...
5 hours ago
Apartment Therapy | Saving the world, one room at a time

This Living Room Was One Big Room — Now It’s Three Smart Spaces - The renovated space makes room for hangouts, overnight guests, and WFH days. *READ MORE...*
9 hours ago
Africa Is a Country

Where mining and conservation meet - In Guinea’s mountainous forest region lies the world’s largest untapped reserve of iron ore. The $24
10 hours ago
Africa.com

Mulilo’s R15bn Investment: A Strategic Catalyst for South Africa’s Energy Grid - At the South Africa Investment Conference 2026 in Johannesburg, Mulilo announced a landmark commitment of nearly R15 billion, marking a pivotal moment for ...
12 hours ago
Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places

Veterans ‘Century of Sentries’ Park in Kenner, Louisiana - [image: Grumman F-14D(R) Tomcat '159629 / AJ-211'] This is a very interesting park in the middle of the suburbs dedicated to veterans. On display are var...
13 hours ago
... My heart’s in Accra

Recent Writing, as of March 2026 - I write a monthly column for Prospect Magazine in the UK, covering the social implications of information technology. This month’s column is about how AI...
17 hours ago
Literary Hub

Why is Bob Dylan hawking AI-generated historical fiction?! - As if to prove his point, the Nobel-winning mage who wrote “the times, they are a-changing,” has finally joined Patreon. As Pitchfork reported yesterday, B...
18 hours ago
Jacobin

The Trump Library Is Going Full-On Supervillain - There is a certain kind of man who, upon being told that people are marching in the streets with signs reading “No Kings,” responds by announcing plans t...
19 hours ago
The Elephant

“Muka wa Ruto”: Kenya’s Obsession with Feminising Bad Governance - [image: “Muka wa Ruto”: Kenya’s Obsession with Feminising Bad Governance] Kenya cannot continue to symbolically blame women for a system they have been sys...
1 day ago
Brain Pickings

How Flamingos Got Their Pink - Against the morphological backdrop of the rest of nature, a giant pink bird on stilts sounds like something out of Lewis Carroll’s imagination. And yet fla...
1 day ago
himalmag

India’s giant step backwards on transgender rights - On 13 March 2026, the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha, India’s lower house of parliament, with ...
2 days ago
Agents of Ishq

चोली के पीछे क्या है? सीने की वह सुलगती बातें जो आप जानना चाहेंगे Swipe Cards -
2 days ago
Bank Underground

Zooming in: firm-level expectations for economy-wide inflation - Federico Pessina, Maren Froemel and Ivan Yotzov Understanding inflation expectations is key for monetary policy makers and has been central to the policy d...
5 days ago
FEMINIST GIANT

Essay: Fuck Fascism - On Radical Rudeness
1 week ago
The Third Eye

Remember VHS? Remember How It Slipped Past Censorship? - If you have lived through or ever wondered about the era of rented cassette tapes and video parlours, this essay is for you. At the heart of this piece i...
2 weeks ago
The Point Magazine

Moral Mysteries - “It is always a significant question to ask about any philosopher: what is he afraid of?” wrote Iris Murdoch in her slim work of moral […] The post Moral...
3 weeks ago
The Chronikler

Theories that Epstein was a Mossad spy distort reality of US-Israeli relations - Speculation that Jeffrey Epstein was a Mossad spy are fuelling antisemitic tropes that the Israeli tail wags the American dog. These conspiracy theories ...
4 weeks ago
GUTS

On (Not) Making People Puke - “Memories are stories. So you better come up with one you can live with.” — Imogen Poots as Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water (2026) “How many ...
2 months ago
Chapati Mystery

XQs XXXIII - A Conversation with Mou Banerjee - The XQs (Ten Questions) series is a conversation with the authors of new and exciting works in South Asian Studies, whose aim is not to “review” but to con...
6 months ago
OkayAfrica

Tyla, Ayra Starr and Moliy Shine at MTV VMAs 2025 - *Tyla *went home with her second* MTV VMAs* award, beating strong competition to snag ‘Best Afrobeats’ with *“PUSH 2 START.”* An obviously excited Tyla t...
6 months ago
MsAfropolitan

Love, Intimacy, Romance - I wrote the following essay for the catalogue of Love, Maybe – Intimacy and Desire in Contemporary Art, an exhibition curated by Dr Jana Johanna Haeckel at...
11 months ago
The Feministani

Fitna - The Arabic word fitna (فتنة) has multiple meanings, including “strife,” “trial,” “persecution,” “temptation,” “sedition,” and “civil strife”. It can also h...
1 year ago
. . . . . . . Supervalent Thought

10 of The Most Famous Existentialists – Titans of Thought! - Existentialism, a philosophical movement that emerged in the 19th and 20th centuries, has profoundly influenced literature, art, theology, and even popul...
2 years ago
Trans Action

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
3 years ago
Country Roads

Autumn in Aarang Kel - Autumn in Aarang Kel Located close to River Neelum, the town of Aarang Kel is a beautiful reminder of why Kashmir is referred to as heaven on earth Having ...
4 years ago
The Marvelous Crumb

Doing nothing is the most important thing my Black body can do for racial justice - And it’s mighty uncomfortable This writing is for all Black bodies. Black bodies feeling the potency of this moment. Black bodies riding peaks of hope an...
5 years ago
The Outline

Unfair trade - Coursing through the veins of the modern world and the modern subject alike, coffee is the spirit of exploitation in brewed form.
5 years ago
www.spoiltmodernwoman.com

The Insider Secret on What Is Physics Uncovered - Choosing Good What Is Physics On-line education programs are also offered. The Alternate Concentration option offers maximum flexibility to students who ...
6 years ago
Skin Stories - Medium

Through the Looking Glass: Questioning Dis/Ability - Image descriptionPanel 1 A graphic representation of a person conjoined to a skull sporting flowers. The skull speaks to the person through a speech bubble...
6 years ago
मुद्दे की बात

हिमा दास "गोल्डन गर्ल" ने पोलैंड में लहराया तिरंगा - भारत की फर्राटा धाविका हिमा दास ने पोलैंड में पोजनान एथलेटिक्स ग्रां प्री में महिलाओं की 200 मीटर दौड़ का स्वर्ण पदक जीत लिया है। विश्व जूनियर चैंपियन और ...
6 years ago
Gathara's World

Press Freedoms Under Threat In Kenya - The arrest and detention of two Kenyan bloggers, Robert Alai and Patrick Safari over pictures of dead Kenyan security officers that shared on their Twitt...
6 years ago
Notes on an IT Company

Ongoing office renovation - Our office is really getting a make over. Wooden floor is getting repaired. We've also just got an order for floor tiles which we will place in the lab ar...
6 years ago
Belly Over Mind

Kinnow Orange and Almond Cake - Kinnow oranges are local to us. Their peels, when cooked down, fall apart quite easily. This is the kind of orange I prefer to work with when making a go...
6 years ago
The Caravan

“Journalism is not a crime”: The unlawful crackdown on the media in Kashmir - In early September, when I read about the arrest of Aasif Sultan, an assistant editor with the magazine Kashmir Narrator, the first thought that came to ...
7 years ago
Nice Mangos

Waking Up to Issues in the Atheist Scene - Not long ago, similar emails to the one I'll share below were only sent to me by Muslims questioning their faith, scripture and double standards, etc. I s...
7 years ago
DWL

SPIDER Coverage - [image: DWLinSpider]
11 years ago
Who we are - Jamhoor

-
https://himalmag.com

-
Soup

-

Show 5 Show All

A.Word.A.Day

Search This Blog

Pages

Home

Wednesday, 18 March 2026

Iran, Iran, Iran

No comments:

Post a Comment