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Vorya Hossein Panahi Tazehabad

Vorya Hossein Panahi Tazehabad

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My Country Didn’t Lose Me. It Pushed Me Away.

People often tell refugees and exiles that they chose to leave. I have always found that statement misleading. Choice suggests freedom. It suggests...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Vorya hossein panahi tazehabad

After the Fall: Will Iran Be Free or Just Different?

People ask me sometimes: what do you want for Iran? I pause. Not because I don’t have an answer. But because the honest answer is complicated  and...

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Vorya hossein panahi tazehabad

Two Peoples, One Pain

Why I Believe in the Kurdish-Israeli Bond I am a Kurd. And I have spent years in exile, waiting for the world to remember that I exist. This is not a...

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The Cost of Waiting: A Refugee’s Perspective from Turkey

The Cost of Waiting: A Refugee’s Perspective from Turkey

For years, I have lived with a reality that is difficult to explain to people who have never experienced it: uncertainty. Like many refugees and...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Vorya hossein panahi tazehabad

When Borders Become Prisons

I write this from Turkey, where I have lived in a kind of suspended existence for years — neither home nor truly abroad. As an Iranian forced to...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Vorya hossein panahi tazehabad