Wednesday, August 20, 2008 
The Sundance film festival’s website is in the midst of 10 Shorts/10 Days, and today they’re streaming Marzieh Vafamehr’s 21-minute movie about the Iran-Iraq war, “Wind, Ten Years Old.” The film takes place mostly in a girls’ school, and it’s pretty jarring to hear little girls singing war propaganda songs. But the film will be […]
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Shahrnush Parsipur is arguably one of the most important Iranian writers working today. First published when she was just sixteen years old, much of her writing casts a spotlight on the lives of women, in a style that combines frank language with magical realism. Parsipur has been jailed under both the Shah’s regime and that […]
Filed under: BOOKS, CENSORSHIP, INTERVIEWS, WOMEN
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Benazir Bhutto, formerly two-time prime minister of Pakistan and part of a prominent political family, was assassinated today in Islamabad. She recently returned to the country after nine years of self-exile related to charges of alleged corruption (which caused her removal from office and were dropped for her return). Bhutto is half Iranian; her mother, […]
Renowned Iranian writer Shahrnush Parsipur recently published an e-book, Men from Various Civilizations. It’s forty pages long and costs just $3, making it a perfect last-minute gift for the literary Iranian in your life - just buy and download it from Parsipur’s website, print it on some high-quality paper, and you’re done. If you’re feeling […]
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This Thursday, October 11, the Iranian-American Bar Association (IABA) and the Leona Foundation are hosting a panel entitled Sexual Harassment and Domestic Violence in the Iranian Diaspora at UC Berkeley. One of the panelists is Don Laffoon of STOP-GAP, an organization which has reached out to the Iranian community before. Also see their Facebook event […]
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From Publisher’s Weekly:
Canadian author Shahir Shahidsaless is suing the Nobel Prize winner and Iranian human rights activist Shirin Ebadi. Shahidsaless says Ebadi went back on her word regarding getting a publisher for a book the two had coauthored after Ebadi was warned by her publisher and agent that the book’s publication might spoil sales of […]
Filed under: GAY & LESBIAN, HUMAN RIGHTS, IMMIGRATION, LEGAL, NEWS, WOMEN
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The Orange County Register ran a story recently about domestic violence in the Iranian community and a group of Iranian men who are speaking out against it and supporting its victims. The men’s group is called the Keyholders, and according to the man pictured above, Mohsen Alinaghian, it’s been difficult to get Iranians involved. This […]
Filed under: COMMUNITY, NON-PROFIT, RESOURCES, WOMEN
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