Legacy of martyred flowers committed me to life, Legacy of martyred flowers, Don’t you see? -Forough Farokhzad, Only the Sound Will Last Since the close of polling late Friday, and the hasty confirmation of Mahmoud …
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The Iranian Election a ‘Legacy of Martyred Flowers’
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10 Iranian Films You Should Probably Net-flick
Circumstance, directed by Maryam Keshavarz: Nobody Knows About Persian Cats, directed by Bahman Ghobadi: Be Like Others, directed by Tanaz Eshaghian: Gabbeh, directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf: Offside, directed by Jafar Panahi*: The Buddhas Collapsed Out …
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Malalai Joya on Ending the Occupation of Afghanistan
Recorded in Kabul, Afghanistan in December 2010:
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Women’s Rights: Afghanistan
In a neighborhood of northern Kabul once called “little Paris” after its famous patisseries and tree-lined avenues, a taxi driver drops me off in front of a 15-foot-high metal gate. The fence surrounds a large …
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Over Wo(my)n’s Dead Bodies: On Surviving Liberation
It was a vivid autumn evening. Americans were still grieving from the stun of 9/11, and the only entity that dared punctuate the eerily quiet streets of New York were the lurid faces of the …
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Solidarity and Its Discontents
By: Raha Iranian Feminist Collective While building solidarity between activists in the U.S. and Iran can be a powerful way of supporting social justice movements in Iran, progressives and leftists who want to express solidarity …