Iran needs us, we need Iranian women To Masha Amini and all women martyrs of the fight for freedom “Women’s rights are human rights!” she gasps before everything goes blue. “A dream I’m finally dreaming,” she thinks. Blue girls and women walk, dance, whirl on the streets of Tehran, throw their hijabs into the air,Continue reading “Iran needs us, we need Iranian women. a poem by Diana Manole”
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3 poems by Mansour Noorbakhsh. WCLJ Writer in Residence
Iranian Youth For Mahsa Amini, Nika Shah Karami, Sarina Esmaeilzadeh and all martyrs of freedom I am a generation that my days have never tolerated with me. I see you kill but verbalize the justice. I see you steal but lament because of oppression. I see it’s foul only what you make in the nameContinue reading “3 poems by Mansour Noorbakhsh. WCLJ Writer in Residence”
Our Sisters in Iran. a poem by Olga Stein
Our Sisters in Iran Why zip when you can zoom, beep when you can boom, rant when roaring is an option? Why bend when you can blare, or tiptoe around, or try to put out rage with quiet words instead of taking action? A moldering edifice needs bringing down. It won’t suffice to frown, or honk instead of howl, when livesContinue reading “Our Sisters in Iran. a poem by Olga Stein”
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