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Displaced Impacts: Visibility, Care, and Humanitarian Filmmaking in Iran

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 297-307, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Socially oriented documentary films are increasingly expected to articulate “impact” goals to gain international distribution, yet what counts as impact for those represented remains contested. This article examines how narratives about working and displaced youth in Iran are produced and circulated through social filmmaking.
Nat Nesvaderani
wiley   +1 more source

Arabic Validation of the Noise‐Induced Hearing Loss‐Symptoms (NIHL‐S) Scale Among Civilians Exposed to Loud Blasts During the 2024 Israeli Invasion of Lebanon

open access: yesHealth Science Reports, Volume 9, Issue 5, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Noise‐induced hearing Loss (NIHL) is a major public health issue, especially in areas of conflict where civilians are exposed to acute and prolonged loud noise from, for example, sonic booms and explosions. A lot of civilians in Lebanon suffered from severe auditory trauma during the 2024 war.
Cynthia Nasr   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Divided They Dally? The Arab World and a Nuclear Iran [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Explores how the Arab states -- Gulf States, non-Gulf States, Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria -- might react to a nuclear Iran. Considers possible changes to inter-Arab relations and the United States' role in working with Arab states to contain ...
Michael Young
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Hezbollah’s Organized Criminal Enterprises in Europe

open access: yesPerspectives on Terrorism, 2013
Hezbollah plots in Europe over the past year exposed a return to violent operations being conducted by the Iranian supported Lebanese Shi’ite group.
Matthew Levitt
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Signs of Statehood of Hamas, Hezbollah and ISIS: Historiographical Review

open access: yesНаучный диалог, 2019
The article is a historiographical study devoted to the analysis of the signs of statehood of such actors of the Middle East policy as Hamas, Hezbollah and ISIS.
V. M. Morozov
doaj   +1 more source

A Relational Perspective on Land in Armed Conflict: Analysing the Village Guard Mobilisation in Turkey

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 26, Issue 1, Page 194-204, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the Turkish state's Village Guard system, revived in the 1980s as part of its counterinsurgency strategy against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). While often framed as a defensive militia, the Village Guards became central to the state's exceptional governance in Kurdistan, both facilitating military control and ...
Francis O'Connor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Iranian Attitudes in Advance of the Parliamentary Elections: Economics, Politics, and Foreign Affairs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
While views of President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Javad Zarif have declined from their heights immediately after the nuclear deal, the University of Maryland has found through opinion polls -- among other viewpoints -- that the two leaders ...
Clay Ramsay   +2 more
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International Solidarity: Principles, Challenges, and Pathways to a Shared Future

open access: yesSociology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 4, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the concept of international solidarity, emphasizing its significance in both historical and contemporary contexts. Notable movements such as Palestine solidarity movement, the global workers' movement and the Anti‐Apartheid Movement illustrate how individuals and communities across borders unite to challenge injustice ...
Simin Fadaee
wiley   +1 more source

Outsmarting sanctions

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, Volume 53, Issue 1, Page 34-44, February 2026.
Abstract In 2012 the UN Security Council and the European Union bolstered US economic sanctions on Iran, disembedding the country's economy from financial markets. Since then, the sanctions have radically devalued Iran's currency, leading Iranians to seek a viable standard of value elsewhere. They have done so through ghachagh (fugitive) configurations
Emrah Yıldız
wiley   +1 more source

For a ‘More Active’ EU in the Middle East: Transatlantic Relations and the Strategic Implications of Europe’s Engagement with Iran, Lebanon and Israel-Palestine. Egmont Paper, no. 13, March 2007 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The 2003 European Security Strategy (ESS), calls for the EU to be ‘more active’ in pursuing its strategic objectives. The two probably most salient examples of a ‘more active’ EU are to be found in the Middle East.
Biscop, Sven.
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