ART and POLITICS NOW – Susan Noyes Platt, PhD

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Humaira Abid: Confronting Women’s Oppressions

Women’s rights are front and center as Iran erupts in anger at its oppressive extremely conservative government after Mahsa Amini a young woman died from being beaten by the so-called morality police. Two 16 year old girls Sarina Esmailzadeh and Nika Shakrami, have also died in the protests. In this country, the repeal of Roe […]

This entry was posted on October 17, 2022 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, Feminism, Iran, Iranian protests, Iranian Women, Uncategorized.

Tags: feminism, honor, Humaira Abid, Iran, Islamic Women, Mehraneh Ebrahimi, oppressions, pacifiers, Pakistan, red, refugees, swings, women, Women Art and Literature in the Iranian Diaspora
I GRIEVE FOR SYRIA, VICTIM OF CULTURAL GENOCIDE

Henry Matthews appalled by the refugee crisis and recalling the generosity and optimism he experienced in Syria before the Civil War, agonizes over the fate of people he met there. He grieves for the loss of life and the destruction of cultural heritage in Damascus, Aleppo, Hama, Palmyra, Raqqa, and Deir Ez-Zor.

This entry was posted on September 16, 2015 and is filed under Syria, Uncategorized.

Tags: Adli Qudsi, Al-Madina Souq, Aleppo, Armenian, Bashar al Assad, Bassam Kahaleh, Citadel, Damascus, Deir Ez-Zor, Early Christian, Ehlahbel, Genocide, Hama, Khaled Al-Asaad, Palmyra, Raqqa, refugees, Saint Sergius, Saint Simeon, Sameer Tenpor, Syria, Syrian Early Christian Churches, Temple of Bel, Tower Tomb Palmyra