Nazy Kaviani

Any Luck with the transcripts?

I had to miss Sunday for the most part.

thank you Nazy jaan

pls remember my shirin(i)! :)

dippy

Dirty Angel!

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Thank god for botox; my facial expressions are wearing rather thin...."

همگی خسته نباشین

من متأسفانه گزارش امروز رو بخاطر بی برقی از دست دادم!

حتماً ویدیو و متنش رو پیدا میکنم، نازی خانوم دستت درد نکنه از گزارش لحظه به لحظه.

Thank you all!

O.K. I'm getting out of here! Thanks a lot for all your kind comments and your attention! I think I'll go have some fun now!

I would like to thank kind Mehdi in Maryland who came out and found me just to chat! What a great community Iranian.com is!

FYI/Lawyer Sentenced to 9 Years for Founding Human Rights Group

Ebadi Calls on UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to Act

Copy & Paste to see: 

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Mehdi Jalali, Iran Analyst in New York

Has ideas about how the human rights organization should be planned and directed.

Hadi Ghaemi, head of International Campaign

for Human Rights in Iran. He is talking about how to find a model to follow in order to get organized around the concept of human rights for Iran.

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Jian, a participant, shares his observations

of the conference. He is talking about the culture of human rights, of human rights as a value.

Dr. Hoda Mahmoudi, Clinical Psychologist and TV personality

Speaking about cognitive learning of human rights a must before effective activism is achieved.

Farideh Pour Abdollah, activist from Northern California

Farideh Pourabdollah is a long time human rights activist in California. She is a founding member of the Iranian Society for Human Rights in Northern California (ISHR), an organization that has been in the forefront of informing and mobilizing interested Iranians to defend human rights in Iran. Since its inception in 2004, ISHR has been a participant in numerous collaborative efforts, including organizing rallies and hunger strikes, to expose human rights violations in Iran and calling on international organizations and personalities to support the cause of human rights in Iran. In June 2008, ISHR hosted a 3- day non-partisan international conference on impediments to the observance and promotion of human rights in Iran. Before the conference began, Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Nobel Laureate for Peace, gave a lecture in San Jose, California to support the ISHR initiative.

Jahanshah speaking

Jahanshah said the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has done a good job of tying breaking human rights-related news in Iran into the media in the west, reporting it professionally and quickly.

Thanks for the running commentary dear Nazy

I have watched some of them using the Firefox as IE kept disconnecting. I hope such gathering could help the Iranians to rid their culture of all obstacles to the introduction of the true human rights.

Iraj Gorgin next and JJ after him

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Iraj Gorgin has been active in the field of journalism and the media in the past nearly 50 years. Born in Iran, he received his Bachelor Degree in Persian Literature from Tehran University, and later his Master of Arts Degree in Communication management from University of Southern California. In Iran he worked as writer and reporter for Keyhan newspaper and some other magazines and publications and was editor of widely circulated weekly Tamasha, dedicated to media, arts and culture. Gorgin started his carrier in broadcasting as writer, producer and correspondent in Radio Iran and established "Radio Two, The Second Program" and served as the director of that radio for some years. He studied television in Japan and Britain, joined National Iranian Radio -Television and worked in various capacities such as anchor, producer, correspondent, and writer and was director of news, production and public relations departments. His last job was managing director of the NIRT's Second Network, the cultural radio and television. After the 1979 revolution in Iran, he immigrated to the U.S. In 1982, he established Radio Omid, a daily radio program in Southern California. In 1985 he published Omid Quarterly, a magazine of contemporary arts and literature. In 1991 he began a daily TV news magazine at KSCI, International Channel; and some years later, an educational Persian - English Website. In 1998 he was invited to help establish the Persian Service of Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty, "Radio Azadi" in Prague, Czech Republic as Deputy Director and Chief- Editor. In 2009 he returned to the U.S. He lives in the Washington D.C. area and is writing a book on his long experience with the Media inside and outside of Iran. Gorgin is also producer and director of a number of documentary films.

Journalist Fereshteh Ghazi of Rooz Online speaking

She is talking about many families of those imprisoned or murdered not stepping forward to identify their children.

I agree, Mehrban!

He got a standing ovation!

The guy from Evin has great points

Maybe shows how the kids in Iran are ahead of us here. 

Pouya Jahandar, former political prisoner

urges all to remember the political prisoners inside Iranian prisons at this time.

Shirin Ebadi speaking now

Hi MM! JJ is in line to ask questions, too.

I only learned about the link yesterday. Sorry.

very good talks, but 32 viewers yesterday, 24 today?

This, only after links/blog from Nazi.  Where is everyone?

The link to this meeting should have been advertized more efficiently from way back.

Iranian.com contributor Fariba Amini

is talking about Simin Behbahani. She is also talking about the importance of making human rights a part of our daily lives.

Dr. Koleini of Northern California

is talking about Iranian refugees in Turkey and establishment of a network to help them.

Iranian.com contributor, Soheila Vahdati

who is a women's rights activist, and activist Asieh Amini are supporting the idea.

Speaking now: Dr. Mansour Farhang

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This session is managed by the conference organizers Dr. Mansour Farhang and Dr. Ahmad Karimi Hakkak, about a way forward. Participants are joining in to provide their input about how to hold this conference on an annual basis. Dr. Farhang is suggesting the formation of a human rights organization.

MANSOUR FARHANG has a PH. D. in political science from Claremont Graduate School in 1970 and taught for a decade at California State University in Sacramento. He served as revolutionary Iran's first ambassador to the United Nations and resigned his position in April 1980, when his efforts to negotiate the release of the American hostages in Tehran failed. In the early months of the Iran-Iraq war he worked with international mediators to settle the war. In June 1981, following the violent suppression of political dissidents, he fled Iran and returned to the United Sates and became a research fellow and lecturer at Princeton University for two years. Since 1983, he has been a professor of international relations and Middle Eastern studies at Bennington College in Vermont, where he has been awarded the Catherine Osgood Foster Chair for Distinguished teaching. He is the author of two books (one coauthored) and dozens of articles in English and Persian, published in both academic journals and popular periodicals. He has been a human rights activist and a member of Amnesty International since his undergraduate days in California. Currently, he serves on the advisory board of Human Rights Watch/Middle East and is a designated speaker for the Vermont Council on the Humanities. He has lectured at many universities, colleges and civic groups across the country and has appeared as a guest on numerous radio and television programs.

صبح به خیر همگی ... : !

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Nazy jan, thanks for this fantastic blog

Dear Nazy, thanks for sharing your experiences with us. I especially like when you provide highlights of each speaker's speech. Next to being in the conference ourselves, your blog is the best.

questions

In all honesty, I've been trying to listen to the talks, questions and self-serving "pleasantries" without reaching, MAINLY, for some form of a bucket. How many "non-Iranians" were invited to the "conference" and if they have been invited, how many attended and how many refused to attend?

And I ask, because if this is an exemplary meeting, except for a minute amount of insight, that country is depressingly doomed for at least a few hundred years. And sometimes I do care deeply....

To paraphrase Sobhani, how many of you put your khodshirini mouths to your money? 

It's revolting, repulsive, apart from ridiculously embarrassing. And if it weren't so funny, but kills people, I'd play along.

"khoda negahdar" in a secular democracy, inshallah.

" Thank god for botox; my facial expressions are wearing rather thin...."

Sobhet bekhair Nazy joon,

Would be Excellent if you could find the transcripts.

Have you already conceptualized your questions for Parastou?

Salam Monda Jan,

Chetori khoshgel Joon? I will ask for transcripts soon. I am hoping to interview Parastu Forouhar for Iranian.com this afternoon.

Now speaking: Dr. Farzaneh Milani

Farzaneh Milani is making a presentation about Iranian poet, Simin Behbahani, whose foreign travel has been banned in Iran, and hence could not be here.

Farzaneh Milani Bio: Farzaneh Milani is the author of Words, Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement (forthcoming); Veils and Words: The Emerging Voice of Iranian Women Writers, and A Cup of Sin: Selected Poems of Simin Behbahani (with Kaveh Safa). She has published over 100 articles, epilogues, forewords, and afterwards in Persian and in English. She has served as the guest editor for two special issues of Nimeye-Digar; IranNameh, and Iranian Studies. She has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Ms. Magazine, the Readers Digest, USA Today, and N.P.R.'s All Things Considered. She has presented more than 150 lectures nationally and internationally. Former Director of Studies in Women and Gender and current chair of the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures, Milani is Professor of Persian Literature and Women Studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. She was a Carnegie Scholar (2006-2007) and McAndless Distinguished Chair at Eastern Michigan University for 2010. Past president of the Association of Middle Eastern Women Studies in America, Milani was the recipient of All University Teaching Award in 1998 and nominated for Virginia Faculty of the Year.