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Researcher Kevin L. Schwartz and Olmo Gölz from the University of Freiburg discuss how the women-led protests in Iran are subverting the Islamic Republic's hyper-masculine gender order in an opinion piece for The New Arab.

Sinologist and Oriental Institute Director Táňa Dluhošová sat down with Lucie Němečková from @mistnikultura to discuss Taiwanese literature, women writers, and the reach of Havel, Kafka & other Czech authors in Taiwan today. [in Czech].

Kevin L. Schwartz and Olmo Gölz (University of Freiburg) published an essay for the Middle East Research and Information Project on how the Iranian government is attempting to balance regime ideology with responses to the COVID-19 health crisis.

As the United States commemorates 20 years since the terrorist attacks on 9/11, images of the Taliban returning to power in Afghanistan fill the screens. The War in Afghanistan has led to 241,000 deaths, displaced 5.9 million Afghans and cost $2.3 trillion. ...

A book launch for a new anthology of Taiwanese short stories: Memories and dreams at the tropic of Cancer (Vzpomínky a sny na obratníku Raka). The book contain two critical essays written by Mgr. Taňa Dluhošová PhD. ...

Ondřej Klimeš published an article "China’s Xinjiang propaganda and united front work in Turkey: actors and content"in a dual special issue on Xinjiang of the Monde Chinois - Nouvelle Asie journal.

Indonesian Studies expert Tomáš Petrů has commented on the events concerning the Islamist suicidal attack on a church in the Indonesian town of Makassar on the Sulawesi Island on Palm Sunday.

Kevin L. Schwartz a Aria Fani (University of Washington, Seattle) pro nezávislý zpravodajský server The Hill komentovali očekávaný projev amerického prezidenta Joe Bidena při přílěžitosti oslav íránského nového roku Nourúz: “Persian New Year is Poetic Moment for Biden to Influence Iranians”. ...

Kevin L. Schwartz and Mandy Terc (MERIP) have commented on the great-power rivalry trap in the Middle East: "The Fallacy of the Great-Power Rivalry in the Middle East” .