Shadi Karamroudi: All the Time
Hearing that her teenage sister is planning to commit suicide, Toranj is in limbo, not knowing how to react.
Ahmad Shamlou: Excerpts from Elegies of the Earth
Is it old age
to coil inward like a cloud
and thunder without rain?
Video: It Turns Blue
Pari covers up domestic violence when her brother beats up his 3 year old daughter.
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: Americans Don’t Want Trump’s Illegal War on Iran
Trump has dragged the United States into another unnecessary war because his “America First” agenda is failing at home. He is using big bombs like a little man.
Kahlil Gibran: War
One night a feast was held in the palace, and there came a man and prostrated himself before the prince, and all the feasters looked upon him; and they saw that one of his eyes was out and that the empty socket bled.
Majid Naficy: A Song for Peace
Let me compose a song for peace
Beyond your phony epics.
Majid Naficy: Ruthless Gods
I detest the world
Which has given its heart
To ruthless gods
Majid Naficy: Stomach Ulcer
The night that Father packed his suitcase
To travel to America
I ran to the alley shops
And bought a package of barberry candies
Brett Wilkins: As Hawks Urge Biden to Bomb Iran, Barbara Lee Says Reject Push for Wider War
“The path forward to peace and security throughout the region is dependent on a cessation of hostilities in Gaza.”
Parichehr Kazemi: How female Iranian activists use powerful images to protest oppressive policies
Images of unveiled Iranian women and adolescent girls standing atop police cars or flipping off the ayatollah’s picture have become signature demonstrations of dissent in the past few months of protest in Iran.
Majid Naficy: The Day Chador Is Not Forced
The day will come when my sisters
No longer wear forced chadors.
Let that day be in summer
So that we can go for a picnic.
Abby Zimet: Iran’s Women Rise Up – and Hack Off Their Hair – for “Woman, Life, Freedom”
Tens of thousands of people have thronged the streets in capital cities around the world for the last two weeks to protest the murder in police custody of Mahsa Amini.
Video: The Kites
A girl is playing on the green slopes of a valley in Kurdistan, on the border between Iran and Iraq, when her kite is suddenly swept across the river by the wind. Three boys on the other side see her calling for help, but cannot make out what she is saying: she is just too far away. Separated by the river, the children try to communicate with each other – yet between them lie the explosive remnants of past wars.
