Azar Nafisi Through the theme of these books, Nafisi paints a picture of her own life through these classics as a professor, mom, teacher, survivor of war, and reader.

The second is Reading Lolita in Tehran, a memoir by Azar Nafisi, describing her secret women’s book club after the Islamic revolution, reading Western (read: and now disallowed) classics.

I recorded #AliceMunro story, Dance of the Happy Shades, for the Guardian... theguardian.com/books/audio/20…

تصاویر دریافتی از متروی تهران 'ایستگاه دروازه دولت به سمت کلاهدوز' به همراه چند پیام منقطع:
قطار ترمز شدید کرد.
یک نفر زیر قطاره.
ساعت ۲:۵۰
قطار تخلیه شد.
یک دختر با مانتوی مشکی بود...

Mahvash Sabet is a poet and Baha’i educator serving a 10-year prison sentence, and one of 49 writers unjustly jailed in Iran for their free expression.

In the 2023 Freedom to Write Index, #Iran ranked 2nd in the top 10 list of countries jailing writers: pen.org/report/freedom…

با الهام از آخرین گزارش مجموعه فعالان حقوق بشر، که شامل گفته های تاسف بار زنان و ارائه دهندگان خدمات مستقیما تحت تاثیر قرار گرفته است، سازمان های امضا کننده این نامه خواستار اقدام قاطع بین المللی برای رسیدگی به نقض سیستماتیک حقوق جنسی و باروری زنان در ایران هستند.

Trump’s reported shakedown of oil executives may not have been illegal, but it is scandalous, David A. Graham writes. Voters don’t like corruption, and Trump’s “plainly corrupt” offer “cuts to the center of the political persona he has cultivated.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

#WomanLifeFreedom #StopExecutionsInIRAN

EXECUTION ORDER 🚨Free Toomaj
In the acknowledgement of recent events
Amnesty International Amnesty International
Islamic Republic Regime occupying Iran to quash Toomaj Salehi’s conviction and death sentence and release him immediately.

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We hosted our third annual Onward for Afghan Women retreat with special guests Dr.Sima Samar, Shaharzad Akbar, UN Special Rapporteur Richard Bennett Richard Bennett, U.S. Special Representative Thomas West Thomas West, U.S. Special Envoy Rina Amiri Rina Amiri, & Ambassador Melanne Verveer. Read more here: giwps.georgetown.edu/womens-right-c…

از کارآفرینان پیشگام ایران بود. چون کارآفرین بود و یهودی اعدامش کردند. اعدام او نتیجه آمیزش کمونیسم و اسلامیسم بود. آمیزشی که شرط لازم به وجود آمدن جمهوری اسلامی بود. یادش گرامی:
iranrights.org/fa/memorial/st…

If true these people are a total disgrace

Poland has its first high level defector: One of the dubious judges, appointed by the former far-right Minister of Justice has appeared in Belarus and started giving interviews on Russian TV

If you want to know how Sovietism and Islamism fused to make Khomeini's regime a possibility, read the story of the eminent Jewish-Iranian entrepreneur on Omid Memorial, he was executed 45 years ago:
iranrights.org/memorial/story…

در چنین روزی از سال ۱۳۶۰، #فرخ‌رو_پارسا نخستین وزیر زن در ایران پیش از انقلاب و از پیشگامان حقوق زنان در ایران، توسط جوخه‌های آتش جمهوری‌اسلامی تیرباران شد.

بیشتر از او بخوانید در #یادبودامید :
iranrights.org/fa/memorial/st…

All the punditry about free speech and criticism of Israel has extravagantly missed the point, Dara Horn argues. The big lie of anti-Semitism is winning: theatln.tc/ZaPXr2eH

Why the IRI continues to take hostage? because it is a successful operation. Since 1979 hostage taking has been part of IRI's diplomacy. Without a concerted, unanimous and firm response from a united front of democratic countries, there will be no end to hostage taking. They

Probably the most serious leader in the West

“A civilisation can die,” Mr Macron warns, and the end can be “brutal”. “Things can happen much more quickly than we think.”

The world must help us stop the Islamic Republic's killing machine. #StopExecutionsInIran

I hope you’ll join me May 9 and 10 if you’re in the Los Angeles or Denver areas for book events, along with fellow author Adam Sikes. Love to see you! It should be fun with good conversation and a preview of our Int’l political thrillers!
Vroman's Bookstore Tattered Cover Book Store Oceanview Publishing

Autocracies Are Winning the Information War...
And the American craving for drama is helping them. From Tom Nichols theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…