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Iranian feminists understood the revolution better than Europe’s intellectuals - opinion

While Foucault praised Iran’s 1979 revolution as spiritual, Iranian women warned it would mean coercion, veiling, and the erasure of their rights.

Demonstrators gather outside the Iranian embassy during a rally in support of nationwide protests in Iran, in London, Britain, January 11, 2026
HESSY TAFT poses holding a photograph of herself taken in 1935 by well-known German photographer Hans Ballin during an interview with Reuters July 9, 2014.

Jewish woman once held up by Nazis as ideal Aryan baby dead at 91

A 3D printed miniature of US President Donald Trump and Cuban flag are seen in this illustration taken January 9, 2026.

Trump says no more Venezuelan oil or money to go to Cuba, pushes for deal

Jonathan Mayora collects items from his damaged family home, after the US launched a strike on Venezuela, capturing its President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, in Catia La Mar, Venezuela January 4, 2026.

Venezuelan Interior Minister: One hundred people killed in US operation to capture Maduro


Fidel Castro: The last revolutionary

Fidel Castro laughed last, having outlived the post-Cold War euphoria that corrupted the West.

PEOPLE ARE transported to greet the caravan carrying the ashes of Fidel Castro in Colon, Cuba, on Wednesday.

Our world: Castro’s greatest victory

The West managed to defeat the Soviet state, but not the Soviet cause. And the flags at half-mast for Castro in Ramallah are proof of the Castro-executed Soviet victory over morality and over truth.

FIDEL CASTRO and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat stand together at the Havana airport during Arafat’s first visit to Cuba in 1974.

Obama’s spinelessness and Trump’s courage on Castro

As an American who loves Canada and has the privilege of hosting a national TV show there, I am embarrassed for the good people of Canada.

File picture of Fidel Castro smoking a cigar during interview with the press in Havana

Palestinians recall fond memories of late Cuban leader Castro

Abbas ordered Palestinian flags to be set a half-staff on Sunday, according to Wafa, the official PA news site.

File picture of Fidel Castro smoking a cigar during interview with the press in Havana

Comment: The romance of Castro and the death of a dictator

The Castro regime is a remnant of a bygone era of big men running small countries whose citizens must hang on their every word, their five-hour speeches, their cults of personality.

File picture of Fidel Castro smoking a cigar during interview with the press in Havana

Fidel Castro dies aged 90

Transforming Cuba from a playground for rich Americans into a symbol of resistance to Washington, Castro outlasted nine US presidents in power.

Former Cuban president Fidel Castro.

A look at Cuba’s dwindling Jewish community

At its height, Cuba was home to roughly 20,000 Jews. Now that number teeters around 1,000, depending on whom you ask.

Simon Goldstein, first vice president of the B’nai B’rith Maimonides Lodge, displays the Torah scrolls kept in the Centro Sefaradi Hebreo

In step toward closure, 15 Guantanamo inmates transferred to UAE

The total number of detainees at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is down to 61.

The exterior of Camp Delta is seen at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, March 6, 2013. The facility is operated by the Joint Task Force Guantanamo and holds prisoners who have been captured in the war in Afghanistan and elsewhere since the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Roots and all

The Cabo Cuba Jazz band performs in the Hot Jazz series.

The Cabo Cuba Jazz band

The Jews that time forgot

A Cuban-American, brought up as a Catholic, discovered her Jewish ancestry after she had converted. Today she works tirelessly to assist the descendants of Anusim.

Genie Milgrom (third from right) at a melaveh malka with returning Anusim in the village of Belmonte, Portugal, last year