Zahra Mousavi, a writer and social researcher, reflects on her lived experience as an Iranian-Afghan, navigating life between Iran and Afghanistan.
A personal documentary by Amin Zargham, recounts his life as a Baha’i in Iran, tracing decades of persecution and portraying individual resistance against propaganda and imposed silence.
In a conversation with Shabnam Toloui, writer and award-winning journalist Homa Sarshar reflects on her formative years in Iran, writing for Zan-e-Ruz and the daily Kayhan until 1978, when the Islamic revolution forced her to leave the country and resettle in the United States.
Corruption is often described as one of the greatest obstacles to justice and prosperity worldwide. In countries such as Iran, where corruption is part of the governing structure, who can hold the corrupt accountable?
The Bahá’í cemetery lies alone along Khavaran Road in the southeast of Tehran, not far from the Christian cemetery. Yet while the Christian burial ground has a clearly marked entrance, a sign, and its own access road, the Bahá’í cemetery—just a short distance away—has no address, no sign, no indication that it is there.
I stood there amid the stream of kolbars pouring down the mountain all at once, taking pictures. A young man with a small frame passed in front of me. A large box of cigarettes was strapped to his back. He could easily have been me, or one of my friends.
This footage records a trial held in 1981 at the Islamic Revolutionary Court inside Evin Prison in Iran. The defendants are seven members of the elected leadership body of the Iranian Baha’i community, the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Iran. They are on trial solely for being Bahá’ís.
