Because if we can be silenced when it comes to Ahmadis, then we can be silenced when it comes to Shias, we can be silenced when it comes to women, we can be silenced when it comes to dress, we can be silenced when it comes to entertainment, and we […]
To everyone celebrating Nowruz around the world, may you have a peaceful and prosperous new year……. President Obama’s Nowruz Message was last modified: March 20th, 2010 by mahnaz badihian
See MahMag editor-in-chief Mahnaz Badihian discuss MahMag’s first publication Protest of the Pen: An Anthology Iran Summer 2009 (In Persian) on Voice of America Part 1 Mahnaz Badihian on Voice of America was last modified: February 1st, 2010 by mahvand sadeghi
King understood people, he understood that it is the seemingly powerless who are in fact most powerful, and that is something many of us celebrate every single day. MLK Day 2010 An Essay by Shirin Sadeghi was last modified: January 18th, 2010 by mahvand sadeghi
Mr Jara was arrested, tortured and killed just days after the coup that brought Pinochet to power in 1973. Second funeral held for Chilean activist Victor Jara was last modified: December 6th, 2009 by mahnaz badihian
Iran has protested to an Oxford University college over a scholarship in memory of the slain Iranian student who became an icon of mass street protests sparked by the disputed June election. Iran Condemns Oxford Scholarship in Honor of Neda was last modified: November 13th, 2009 by andres alfaro
SPIEGEL: Ms. Ates, in your controversial new book, you call for a sexual revolution in the Islamic world. Ates: You don’t know how necessary that is. German-Turkish Author Seyran Ates ‘Islam Needs a Sexual Revolution’ was last modified: October 15th, 2009 by mahnaz badihian
After 160 years, the great American writer Edgar Allan Poe is finally to be honored with a decent funeral service. ‘Funeral’ honours Edgar Allan Poe/ By Lawrence Pollard was last modified: October 11th, 2009 by mahnaz badihian
LONDON (Reuters) – A group of women who are risking imprisonment to collect one million signatures on a petition demanding greater women’s rights in Iran were presented on Tuesday with the Anna Politkovskaya award for courage. Iranian women’s rights activists win courage award was last modified: October 8th, 2009 by […]
Laal is a band on a revolutionary mission. The communist Pakistani band Laal (meaning “Red” in Urdu) fuses modern rock with a traditional Eastern sound and blends revolutionary poetry into their songs. This video shows the song “Umeed-E-Sehr,” or “hope of a new dawn.” Pakistani Band Laal was last modified: […]