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From the archive: ‘Iran was our Hogwarts’: my childhood between Tehran and Essex

We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2021: Growing up in Essex, my summers in Iran felt like magical interludes from reality – but it was a spell that always had to be broken By Arianne Shahvisi. Read by Serena Manteghi. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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  ‘Pretty birds and silly moos’: the women behind the Sex Discrimination Act

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  ‘What I see in clinic is never a set of labels’: are we in danger of overd…

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  From the archive: China’s troll king: how a tabloid editor became the voic…

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  I used to report from the West Bank. Twenty years after my last visit, I w…

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  Out of the ruins: will Aleppo ever be rebuilt?

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  From the archive: Why can’t we agree on what’s true any more?

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  A century in the Siberian wilderness: the Old Believers who time forgot

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  Inside voice: what can our thoughts reveal about the nature of consciousne…

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  From the archive: ‘Who remembers proper binmen?’ The nostalgia memes that …

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  What technology takes from us – and how to take it back

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  The crisis whisperer: how Adam Tooze makes sense of our bewildering age

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  From the archive: Do we need a new theory of evolution?

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  Walking into disaster: the narcotrafficking scandal that blew up the BVI

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  Trump’s assault on the Smithsonian: ‘The goal is to reframe the entire cul…

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  From the archive: the free speech panic: how the right concocted a crisis