YJI students Sreehitha Gandluri and Norah Springborn from the United States, Naz Mergen from...
Author - Parnian Shahsavary
This is an interactive map that shows you where YJI students have written stories over the years. You can zoom in or out of the world map to explore all of them in detail. [Note: If you’re seeing this on an author page, you will only see stories by a particular student.]
Finding so much in common and why I’ll never eat Iranian...
ISTANBUL – My Turkish friend İpek Eser and I were getting simit, a bread in the shape of a circle...
YJI’s conference in Istanbul taught me to dare
ISTANBUL – When my editor at Youth Journalism International first approached me about taking part...
The different lives of tourists and locals
ISTANBUL – A week spent in İstanbul and Büyükada, an island off the coast of the city, presents...
What it was like to leave Iran for a few days
TEHRAN – Let me give you a summary of my life. Every time that I get ready to go outside to unwind...
Good mental health care requires more than internet quotes
TEHRAN – It’s somehow hard to mention mental health when most of us on the planet can’t even...
Russian youth: Our national soul is on its deathbed
RUSSIA – I love Russia. I adore its culture, science and all its brave, strong, clear-thinking...
