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Fear and silence By Mohsin Hamid

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:43:04 -0800

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 can even be silenced when it comes to sitting by ourselves, alone in a room, afraid to think what we think.

President Obama's Nowruz Message

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:02:39 -0900

To everyone celebrating Nowruz around the world, may you have a peaceful and prosperous new year.......

Mahnaz Badihian on Voice of America

Mon, 1 Feb 2010 19:46:55 -0900

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

MLK Day 2010 An Essay by Shirin Sadeghi

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:42:44 -0900

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.

Second funeral held for Chilean activist Victor Jara

Sun, 6 Dec 2009 20:54:23 -0900

Mr Jara was arrested, tortured and killed just days after the coup that brought Pinochet to power in 1973.

Iran Condemns Oxford Scholarship in Honor of Neda

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:17:32 -0900

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.

German-Turkish Author Seyran Ates 'Islam Needs a Sexual Revolution'

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:00:20 -0800

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.

'Funeral' honours Edgar Allan Poe/ By Lawrence Pollard

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 07:14:26 -0800

After 160 years, the great American writer Edgar Allan Poe is finally to be honored with a decent funeral service.

Iranian women's rights activists win courage award

Thu, 8 Oct 2009 13:46:24 -0800

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.

Pakistani Band Laal

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:23:38 -0800

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."