de.hypothesesHow do you mourn when the words for #grief have been stolen? Following the January 2026 massacres in #Iran, people protested by reinvented mourning in the city of #Karlaba. Mina Khanlarzadeh explores how grief finds new language when the old is poisoned by #stateviolence:
The Morgue Is Karbala, Mourning in Each Other’s Skin. Part I: The Lexicon in Exile
In the first part of her contribution, Mina Khanlarzadeh examines the Karbala narrative— the Shiʿi story of Hossein’s martyrdom, which for decades served as a public grammar for naming injustice in Iranian political culture.