Friday, March 27, 2009


Change for Equalit: Twelve women’s rights activists were arrested today on March 26, 2009, on Sohrevardi Avenue in Tehran, while meeting up to go for New Years visits of families of imprisoned social and political activists. Ten of those arrested are members of the One Million Signatures Campaign.

Real and groundbreaking, this anthology edited by Sheema Kalbasi is a breathtaking collection of Iranian women's poems and is an event not to be missed. The Poetry of Iranian Women is full of passionate and vital poems that speak of universal themes with grace, craft, sensual imagery, and sociopolitical angst. This compendium affords a wonderful opportunity to learn what is being written today by women of this ancient Persian culture of the Mid-East cradle of civilization. 

―  Daniela Gioseffi

Wednesday, March 18, 2009


Earlier today the Iranian blogger Omid Reza Mirsyafi who was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for insulting authorities died in Evin prison.

Monday, March 02, 2009

The executions of minorities continues in Iran and Farzad Kamangar, a teacher, a trade unionist, and human rights activist is at risk of execution. It was a few days ago when the 27 year old Iranian Kurd, Mehdi hasemzadeh was executed. In addition the Iranian regime forces cracked down on hundreds of protesting university students and arrested around hundred of them. This should not go unsaid that the US journalist Roxana Saberi was arrested in Iran recently.