Soheila Ghadiri

Soheila Ghadiri a young poor girl from a village in Kurdistan Was executed in October 21, 2009
She grew up under the rain, on the pavements of lonely streets of Tehran, and was an unwanted guest of cold parks and was a piece of meat for hungry wolves!
She killed her 5 day-old baby girl because she did not want her daughter to have the same destiny as hers!
She was as lonely as Atefeh Sahaaleh when she was executed!
Read her last words to no one and to the world!

Red Leaves

Oneness of World- Hearts

The madness of this world
Cannot be conquered
By the sadness or the power
Of the world,
But only by the oneness
Of the world – hearts

By: Sri Chinmoy

A Soldier took his life in Iraq

Parents of a soldier who took his life in Iraq speak out.

Brutality of War!

In 1980, when Iran-Iraq War broke out in south part of Iran, I left everything (even my beloved son) behind and went to war zone to help the injured people. Devastated by the ferocity of war, I documented all the details and wrote my memoir. The result of being in the war zone and experiencing the brutality of war, was a hand written book and several poems. The modified version of it was published in a women's magazine under a Pseudonym...and the the original manuscript was destroyed by...

Art can always help to re-experience the real experience to learn from history and strive for humanity!
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"Mehdi Monem's portraits of victims of the Iran-Iraq War are the result of years of effort. He was a photojournalist during that 8-year war and documented its impact on the people of Iran. With the support of the International Committee of the Red Cross, 96 of these portraits have been published in a collection titled "Victims of War". The objective is to pay more attention to defense-less civilians, prevent attacks on them during war, and ultimately spread the message of peace and friendship."
Pictures of victim's of the Iran-Iraq War

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Last Tuesday in my Experimental Playwriting class one of my students respectfully asked: Why do we have to read all these depressing plays? (Last Tuesday's assignment was reading "Mud" by Maria Irene Fornes, and a week before was the short story "In the Grove" by Akutagawa)

Maria Irene Fornes

I asked myself: Why do these plays and works of art make me deeply happy but them unhappy?
These good questions require perceptive answers!
Watch a trailer of Rashomon an adaptation film by akira kurosawa based on "In the Grove" a short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.

I'm My Own Grandpa!

It's always great to laugh! Isn't it? Listen and watch:
I'm My Own Grandpa!
And... a different version!
Isn't this song a response to the play I'm My Own Wife?

No More War, No More Trouble!

Listen to series of global music playing for change, a solidarity around the world for peace:
War/ No More Trouble...What We Need is Love!
This song is a response to One Love
This song is a response to Don't Worry
This song is a response to STAND BY ME!