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Parisa Hashempour

Parisa Hashempour

As Middle Eastern looks ‘trend’, what happens to Middle Eastern women?

Growing up in North Wales, I wasn’t the only girl with train-track braces or a questionable side fringe. But in a rural, extremely white…

Nov 27, 2020

As Middle Eastern looks ‘trend’, what happens to Middle Eastern women?

Nov 27, 2020

Parisa Hashempour

Psychedelics have the power to heal — but BIPOC are being left behind

Envision a club-wielding Fred Flintstone tripping out on psychedelic drugs — bizarre, right? But according to archaeologists, that’s…

Oct 30, 2020

Psychedelics have the power to heal — but BIPOC are being left behind

Oct 30, 2020

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Indivisible Movement

Ticking the right box

At the age of thirteen I was sat in registration class when a form landed on my desk. I absent-mindedly ticked my way through, until all of…

Mar 26, 2017

Ticking the right box

Mar 26, 2017

Parisa Hashempour

Visit my mosque

Filmed down at Edinburgh’s Central Mosque a few weeks back with the lovely Robert Sutton-Mattocks. Check it out!

Mar 25, 2016

Mar 25, 2016

Parisa Hashempour

Parisa Hashempour

Journalist, International Studies lecturer. Bylines in Refinery29, i-D Magazine, Runner’s World, Healthista, Indivisible Movement.

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