You may have seen Superman in action, flying in to join Iranian protesters on the streets of Tehran in the current 900th anniversary issue of Action...
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Where do the dogs go?
I’ve just finished reading a piece on Global Voices about the controversial issue of owning a dog in Iran. With so many more fundamental freedoms...
Iran’s silenced workers make fresh May Day demands
Iranian workers are denied the basic right of assembly but each year they valiantly mark May Day. Iran’s labour movement has a long and courageous...
Jailed lawyer awarded PEN prize
Nasrin Sotoudeh, 47, writer, lawyer, and women and children’s rights activist, has been awarded PEN’s Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award. The...
A tradition of female campaigning
A sense of a time that slipped between our fingers, or a consciousness, of a strength retained and a power that it is still within our grasp…one...
Standing with banned musicians on Music Freedom Day
What would you do if the music you wanted to make were forbidden ? What if someone in power didn't want it heard? Would you be silent? Or would you...
Iran’s cyber-army goes on the offensive
A week ago today, Iranians took to the streets once again, unafraid of arrest, tear gas, batons, and bullets. Their online counterparts work in...
The Bus, a short story by Saneh Jaleh, killed on Monday, aged 26
As a tribute to Saneh Jaleh, who two days ago lost his life in the fight for freedom of expression, I have translated a short story written by him....
Iran cuts a calender month ahead of protests
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei’s praise of the Egyptian people and encouragement of Cairo's protesters in the past...
Cab confessionals: Iranians respond to Egypt
In a New York Times op-ed last week, These Revolutions Are Not All Twitter, Andrew Woods raises the significance of “a phenomenon called...
Iran: We’re together and we suffer it together
Little Black Fish would like to share this clip of a group of Iranians in the Fars province dancing to make the best of a long traffic jam earlier...
Iran: Ibsen and Strindberg play out
These striking images from a Tehran production of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler caught my eye on the Revolutionary Road Facebook page. Sadly the accompanying...