Iranians have been protesting for centuries -- if you could read Persian, you'd know.
They are a nation with a keen sense of their rights, and an audacity to speak up for themselves, whether it's in the streets, on the page or on the web.

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As an Iranian woman, I require big changes in order to convince myself that a change in president would mean an improvement of my basic rights as human being inside Iran.
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There are women who will go to bed
With their lover with my body
And they will talk and kiss with my lips
They will talk with my voice
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Angry soldiers fill with tiny footsteps
the bellies of helpless women
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June 28th, 2009 by Andrew Bostom |
In 1919 Sadiqeh Dolatabadi (d. 1962), pictured above, published the first women’s periodical in Isfahan called Zaban-e Zanan (The Women’s Voice) which (unsurprisingly!) faced opposition from the Mullahs in Isfahan.
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The idea of Camp Quest is really to let the children decide what they think. So we're going to run some activities on philosophy for children.
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Yes, it’s simple. From the outset, the regime targeted women, calculating that the patriarchal culture of the country would embrace the idea of an Islamic diktat that “put women in their place.”
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Recent events in Iran have filled me with shock and mounting horror, and I send my heartfelt sympathies and support to all my friends and fans there who may have been caught up in what has become a huge international story.

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Our green whisper
In your young body falls sleep
But our resonance will increase
And multiply in number day by day

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Above is master classical Persian singer Mohammad Reza Shajarian in his car amongst demonstrators in Tehran June 2009. He is quoted as saying, "My voice is rubbish and rubble and therefore should not be heard." This was in response to the President Mahmood Ahmadinejad's comment referring to the demonstrators as rubbish and rubble.

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It must engage in face-to-face dialogue with Iran. Distant criticism and transoceanic discourse make both sides lose credibility, fashioning a wild west stand-off out of what should be diplomatic talks.

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Instead of denying our rights, we need to spend energy to perfect our rights
I can share my love
With wind
With roses
With thorns
With whoever makes me
Feel in love
I ask the wind, “will you blow my kisses
To the other side of the river
To the one not given the chance
To pass the water”
To the only one my eyes can see
Through the forbidden cup of wine
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Translated from Spanish by Andres Alfaro

I have traveled, too.
Like a particle of dust
I have fluttered through the house and landed on the books.
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Based on a 12th-century Persian poem, the film-within-the-film is a story of star-crossed love as well known in modern-day Iran as Romeo and Juliet is in the West. Shirin, a beautiful Armenian princess, falls madly in love with a portrait of Khosrow, a young Persian prince, and sets out on horseback to find him, unaware that he has already gone in search of her. ...
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CERTAIN SOMEBODY
CALLED: LTD
WAS STANDING OUT THERE
SOUND AND SENSIBLE .
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