Usman Butt

Our Women on the Ground: A Review

“When ISIS soldiers arrest me and kill me, it will be okay, because while they will cut off my head, I’ll still have dignity, which is better than living in humiliation.” This was the last daring Facebook post of Ruqia Hasan, a citizen journalist based in the Syrian city of…

Remembering the 1979 Iranian Revolution

On 1 February 1979, Air France flight 4721 landed at Tehran’s Mehrabad International Airport at 09:27. On board were 120 international journalists and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Khomeini had been exiled by the Shah’s regime for 15 years, first to Turkey, Iraq and then to France. His return was prompted by…

Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution