Over four decades of Iranian citizens' migration has influenced Persian literature, with a significant portion of exiled/migrant writers being women. Their poetry, stories, and novels offer an insight into the authors' mental and physical worlds, beyond aesthetic discussions. The article examines the narratives of four Iranian female migrant writers, revealing the complexities of gender and migration. It discusses how their stories depict the suppression in their homeland and the solitude in exile, the transformation of public and private spaces post-revolution, and the continuous struggle against gender oppression across borders. The novels portray Iran as a place of repression and the West as a space of freedom, challenging the binary of traditional Eastern gender structures versus modern Western ones, and highlighting the nuanced experiences of Iranian women in both contexts.

The article by Vahid Valizadeh explores the relationship between intellectual culture and the Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Iran, questioning whether there was a conflict or collusion between the two. It argues that the revolution failed and was followed by a counter-revolution, but this narrative is not widely accepted. The author examines the cultural products of pre-revolutionary Iran, including films and literature, to demonstrate that the discourse of the Islamic Republic shares strong similarities with the ideas of non-religious intellectuals and cultural workers before the revolution. The article suggests that the dominance of socialist and worker-oriented ideas in the intellectual space before the revolution is exaggerated, while the national-religious aspect of the cultural products produced by non-religious, dissenting intellectuals of that era is often overlooked.

The issue of #noborders explores the increasing barriers erected by Europe against immigrants and the plight of those seeking a safer life who end up in limbo in asylum centers and refugee camps. It covers the impact of EU asylum policies on LGBTQ individuals in Lesbos, the challenges faced by transgender individuals in schools, and the discrimination that allows child marriage in Romania. The text also touches on the sexual health of vulnerable EU citizens, the denial of asylum to an Iraqi individual, and the use of sexuality as a weapon against oppression and despair.