WomenOnTheFrontlinefilm.com: Mehrangiz Kar, Noam Chomsky, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and many other prominent figures participate in this essential documentary and express their views on the situation

اعتراض ده ها نویسنده، روزنامه نگار، هنرمند، استاد دانشگاه و فعال حقوق بشر به خطر اعدام حبیب الله لطیفی حبیب‌الله لطیفی، دانشجوی اسیر در زندان

Whilst Iranian women struggle for an affirmation of their status as equal citizens and are demanding withdrawal of discriminatory laws against them, the United Nations

The words are pealing on a moist Tuesday morning to be a reminder of the mortality of all. The pain, a burning ocean causes while

Lekshmy Rajeev and Sheema Kalbasi This night holds me so tightly in its palm, as if to never love another, but outside what remains is

Yahia Lababidi and Sheema Kalbasi   I have not found the key to myself the one that will get the high gates to swing wide

God has no desires. I do. I, who makes love with her flesh and writes by hand so that you read me and recount the

I need you to say you love me. I want your words to touch me again. Look, who knows maybe I will break into a

Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad گناه، گزیده ای ازاشعارفروغ فرخزاد اخیراً به همت شعله ولپی شاعرومترجم توانای ایرانی مقیم آمریکا به زبان انگلیسی برگردانده

On September 17, 1992, several Iranian-Kurdish opposition leaders were assassinated at the Mykonos restaurant in Berlin, Germany. In its 10 April 1997 ruling, a German

اخیرا در پی چاپ کتاب “زندانی تهران” مطالب زیادی در باره نویسنده زن این کتاب، مارینا نعمت، نوشته شده است. بیشتر این مطالب توسط افرادی

  lover of longing's songs and whispered promises born exile, homeless at last tormenting idea become beckoning reality these are the wandering years When anguish

It was 2003 I had put my few months old daughter to bed and was browsing through Iranian Times when I came across a collection

After my recent blog post was published on iranian.com [“”], I received e-mails some of which expressing their desire for a dialogue with the Iranian

Introduction to The Seven Valleys of Love: The Bilingual Anthology of Women Poets from the Middle Ages Persia to the Present Time Iran, edited by

I open my arms. I am Shenandoah, daughter of the stars. I open my legs and become Shekinah for you to inhabit my body. To

Qumars Hojjaty of Pars Times interviews Sheema Kalbasi on the publication of her book of poetry, “Echoes in Exile”. She also comments on literature, humand

Now That Spring Is Here I want to die and wake up in your writings. I want to be frozen yet my eyes watch the

Long ago when I was about five years old and with my parents was driving through the holy city of Qom on the way to

In 1972, on November twentieth I was born on the third floor of Tehran's Hashtroudian Maternity Hospital. On its east wing faces were expressive to

Outside the Days Let me be granted the beauty of your voice, to watch the movement of your unseen apple on your throat. What time

A Day After I hardly can keep my eyes open. The dining table is full of what I like or have liked at one point

The Birth I don't think I am a woman who is defeating the taboos of her time or maybe I am. This however has not

Count the Moments What is there to confess? That I love you like my land? That you are my land? That I want to take