Iranian biomedical researcher and students in Hong Kong are dealing with intense anxiety due to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. They spend their days monitoring world news while coping with uncertainty about their families' safety.

Life for Hong Kong-based Iranian biomedical researcher Behzad Nasiri Ahmadabadi is filled with anxiety as he spends each day waiting for a call from his family that may not come amid the conflict in the Middle East. The stress is similar for Iranian student Ali*, who spends his days scrolling through news reports from across the world to piece together events on the ground and lies awake at night thinking about what they mean. Young Iranians in Hong Kong are dealing with the conflict in a...