Professor Tarek Masoud joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about the history of Iran. Is Iran an Arab country? Why did the Iranian revolution happen? Is Iran the only middle eastern country whose modern borders were not created by colonial powers? Answers to these questions and many more await on Iran History Support.

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00:00 – Iran History Support
00:15 – Is Iran an Arab country?
02:58 – How did Iran become an Islamic country in the first place?
05:02 – What’s going on with Iran’s flag?
06:28 – Just how liberal/progressive was Iran prior to the 1979 revolution?
08:08 – Is Iran the only middle eastern country whose modern borders were not created by colonial powers?
09:41 – Why did the Iranian revolution happen?
11:51 – The son of Iran’s last Shah is rallying protesters, but do Iranians really want another king?

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The Russian invasion of Ukraine has destroyed so much — including hundreds of schools, where the country’s children were forging their futures — but it has not stopped Ukrainians from pursuing knowledge and curiosity. In a deeply moving talk, education leader Zoya Lytvyn shares her first-hand experience evacuating Kyiv and takes us inside the ongoing effort to continue educating children amid war and destruction. “As long as our children keep learning and our teachers keep teaching — even while they are starving in shelters under bombardment, even in refugee camps — we are undefeated,” she says.

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