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239days.com: From Hazf to Hefz

bordbar — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 21:26:10 +0000

Since April, 239days.com has been chronicling the visit to America and Canada by a Persian traveler who, from today’s vantage point, can be regarded as the most obscure, well-known Iranian of the early twentieth century.

Aseer Women & Men of Iran: Baha'i Leaders

bordbar — Tue, 10 May 2011 17:33:21 +0000

14 May 2011 will mark the completion of the third year of the imprisonment of the former Yaran, group of seven Baha'i leaders who were responsible for the spiritual welfare of the 300,000 strong Baha'i community of Iran. According to their lawyer, Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi, they are innocent of the charges against them, and have been imprisoned solely because of their religious beliefs.

Aseer Women and Men of Iran: 3rd Anniversary of Baha'i Leaders Imprisonment

bordbar — Tue, 10 May 2011 02:52:15 +0000

Worldwide Twitter Campaign to Free Seven Baha'i Prisoners

bordbar — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:18:00 +0000

Charged with baseless accusations that even the hero of "My Uncle Napoleon" (Daie jan Napel'un) is incapable of conjuring up, the Yaran, group of seven Baha'i men and women who with the full knowledge of the Government were in charge of the minimum spiritual needs of the 300,00 strong Baha'i Community of Iran, were recently sentenced to twenty years in prison.

Baha'i Leaders' Show Trial Scheduled on First Anniversary of Presidential Election

bordbar — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 04:17:39 +0000

The next session of the trial of the former members of the Yaran, who attended to the spiritual and social needs of Baha'is of Iran, has been set June 12th .

Documentary on the persecution of the Baha'is of Iran including an interview with Shirin Ebadi

bordbar — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:43:08 +0000

Excellent news cast in India, including an interview with Shirin Ebadi, now on YouTube.

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Poem by African-American Baha'i Poet

bordbar — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:49:38 +0000

Those Winter Sundays

by Robert Hayden (1913-1980)

Sundays too my father got up early

and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,

then with cracked hands that ached

from labor in the weekday weather made

banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.

I'd wake and hear the cold splitering, breaking.

When the rooms were warm, he'd call,

and slowly I would rise and dress,

fearing the chronic angers of that house,

Speaking indifferently to him,

who had driven out the cold

Maple Leaf Mysticism: a poem by Margaret Atwood

bordbar — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:27:17 +0000

The Moment

The moment when, after many years

دستگیری رهبران بهائی ایران توسط رژیم

bordbar — Fri, 23 May 2008 00:28:35 +0000

علیرضا انسان دوست

British Poet in "Estegbal" of Nima

bordbar — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 17:23:58 +0000

Not Waving but Drowning

Iran Targets Baha'is Again: Murder with Impunity

bordbar — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 06:15:47 +0000

by Paul Marshall

The Iranian government is currently intensifying its persecution of its largest religious minority, the Baha'is. This reveals something of the government's nature, and also sheds light on the hotly debated question: Does the regime remain a revolutionary one, or has it become instead a "normal country," one that, despite its fervent rhetoric, aspires only to international acceptance and regional power?

We never curse the air when it is warm

bordbar — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:49:53 +0000

An African Elegy

We are the miracles that God made
To taste the bitter fruit of Time.
We are precious.
And one day our suffering
Will turn into the wonders of the earth.

There are things that burn me now
Which turn golden when I am happy.
Do you see the mystery of our pain?
That we bear the poverty
And are able to sing and dream sweet things.

ممانعت از تحصیلات عالیه دانشجویان بهایی

bordbar — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:40:56 +0000

جنب و جوش دوباره دانشجویان در ماه سپتامبر و ترافیک سنگین حول و حوش محوطه دانشگاه، مرا نه به یاد هیاهوی مهر ماههای تهران و طنین"یار دبستانی من"می اندازد، و نه به یاد رنج مشق شب و وسوسه رج زدن. بلکه بی اختیار به یاد خواهران و برادران بهایی ام در ایران می افتم که قریب ربع قرن از تحصیل در مدارس عالی و دانشگاهی محروم مانده اند.