Iran’s new president-elect is heading into the job carrying some baggage from the past that neither he nor the country’s state-friendly news outlets care to talk about.
Contributors:
Mahsa Alimardani – Iran researcher, Article 19; researcher, Oxford Internet Institute
Ghanbar Naderi – Iranian affairs analyst
Pardis Shafafi – Anthropologist and researcher, ERC Off-Site Project
Arash Azizi – Author of Shadow Commander
On our radar
Richard Gizbert speaks to producer Meenakshi Ravi about the targeting of female social media influencers in Egypt as two more women are jailed for their TikTok videos.
The struggle for freedom of expression in post-Castro Cuba
From protests to viral videos, Cuban activists test the limits of dissent as they demand greater cultural freedoms.
Contributors:
Amaury Pacheco – Poet and activist, Movimiento San Isidro
Fernando Ravsberg – Journalist; former correspondent, BBC
Fernando Rojas – Cuban Deputy Minister of Culture
Marta Maria Ramirez – Independent journalist
