by Sam Razi | Apr 19, 2010 | Arts and Culture, Featured, From the Web, General, Human Rights, Must Read
Source: Pedestrian | April 12, 2010 Ezatollah Sahabi is the 80 year old head of Iran’s Nationalist-Religious political alliance. He has spent years in prison, in both the pre and post revolution eras, and here he reflects on the state of prisons in Iran and laments...
by Sam Razi | Apr 4, 2010 | Arts and Culture, Featured, From the Web, General, Human Rights
(Vancouver Sun) | April 3, 2010 By Jessica Barrett, Canwest News Service METRO VANCOUVER — One death became a symbol of the bloody student uprising following Iran’s disputed presidential elections last June. And now Caspian Makan, the fianc? of slain student...
by Sam Razi | Mar 26, 2010 | Arts and Culture, Featured, From the Web, General, Must Read
(Pedestrian Blog) | March 26, 2010 I’ve been meaning to post this for some time now. BaroBax is one of Iran’s most famous bands right now (their site needs some English editing, calling them “an alternative video and music producer”) …And irrespective of how you feel...
by Sam Razi | Mar 22, 2010 | Arts and Culture, Featured, From the Web, General
(RFE/RL) | March 21, 2010 By Abbas Djavadi Maryam had invited her two daughters and their husbands and grandchildren for Norouz, the New Year’s feast, to her home in western Tehran when I called her on Saturday. It was after 9:02 p.m. when “tahvil,”...
by Sam Razi | Mar 21, 2010 | Arts and Culture, Featured, From the Web, General, Must Read
(Persian Umpire) | March 21, 2010 The Iranian regime’s hostility toward Chaharshanbe Souri is nothing new. For years after the revolution, as we were growing up in Tehran, we held the celebrations in fear. As we set our tumbleweeds on fire in our street and threw some...
