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Explore the enduring questions of homeland, exile, memory, responsibility, adopted lands, and reconstruction.
Adopted Land
Reflects on the societies that receive exiles—what stability looks like, what makes a country livable, and the ethical relationship between newcomers and their new home.
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Exile
Examines the lived condition of exile—loss, adaptation, identity, and the tension between belonging and displacement that defines life away from home.
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Iran
Traces the modern and historical trajectory of Iran: a civilisation of depth and continuity disrupted by invasion, ideology, and revolution—yet sustained through memory, culture, and resistance.
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Origins of Exile
Explores the earliest experiences of displacement—how exile first emerged in human history, from ancient empires to sacred narratives, and how the idea of leaving, returning, and rebuilding shaped civilisations.
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Reconstruction
Focuses on the future—how societies can be rebuilt after rupture, through institutions, education, civic life, and the long work of restoring dignity and possibility for the next generation.
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Responsibility
Asks difficult questions: why did we leave, what broke our homeland, and what obligations do exiles carry—both toward the country they left and the one that received them.
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Women, Freedom & Erasure
Women, Freedom & Erasure explores how political, religious and social power can restrict women’s autonomy, visibility and choices—and the ways women continue to resist, speak, create and claim their place in society.
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