The Costa Rican writer and poet Felipe Granados passed away in August 2009 at the age of 33. “I want them to know that I felt calm on the night that I killed god, I slept like a baby“ Felipe Granados was last modified: November 22nd, 2009 by andres alfaro
Poem: Je t’aime from the collection Last Love Poems of Paul Eluard translated by Marilyn Kallet Eluard’s poetry is measured, planned, almost like a mathematical calculation that has the correction sum Poetry Review by Mahnaz Badihian / poem by Paul Eluard was last modified: November 16th, 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
Perhaps, some day, a sunny day, on the sidewalk, down the street filled with pigeons Bejan Baran/Diaspora was last modified: November 7th, 2009 by mahnaz badihian
BEYOND COMPREHENTION AND ELAM: A COLLECTION OF ENGLISH AND PERSIAN POEMS AND DRAWINGS Available at AMAZON.COM ENGLISH/ PERSIAN POEMS AND DRAWINGS by M. K. SADIGH was last modified: November 5th, 2009 by mahnaz badihian
‘Anthology of Protest Poetry “(Summer 2009 Iran) which will be available in Farsi soon, with English/Italian/Spanish translations shortly. This Project is a joint effort between Dr. Mahnaz Badihian (poet, educator and activist) and Azadeh Davachi (poet and translator). For any ideas, suggestions or questions please contact publisher@mahmag.org. Below is a […]
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
As a reader of poetry you always find poets that you can emotionally connect with and feel a specific excitement reading the feelings the poets put down on paper. review of a poem by”—Carlos Drummond de Andrade”/Mahnaz badihian was last modified: October 9th, 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 […]