walk down the street in broad daylight to receive only basic education. It is often easier to think of uneducated young girls and women as numbers and statistics but they each have a stories that are sometimes hard to imagine. The only reason Shabana Basij-Rasikh, one of many teenagers who have been denied legal and safe education in Afghanistan, received education, was because her father supported her. She has come to realize that, “..behind most of us who succeed is a father who recognizes the value
The final manifestation of disenfranchisement in the Middle East is the disenfranchisement of the youth. In some of the region’s countries, especially in Iran and Saudi Arabia, there are many laws that impact the youth more than they would impact any other group. In Varzi’s Last Scene Underground, and Menoret’s Joyriding in Riyadh, both authors try to portray how the laws of Iran and Saudi Arabia have dramatically curtailed the freedom and rights of their countries’ youths. When examining Menoret’s
In Warriors Don’t Cry and in the two TedTalks, they all share the importance of fighting for educational rights and social injustice. The Little Rock Nine students, Malala Yousafzai, and Shabana Basij-Rasikh all show resistance and self-reliance in each of their unique stories. Also, in Warriors Don’t Cry, there are many events that relate to the real world. First, a theme that is in all of the medias is resistance. In Warriors Don’t Cry, the Little Rock Nine black students are constantly being bullied
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say on policy matters in Iran, assured an audience of thousands of members of the hard-line Basij paramilitary organization that the negotiators would not compromise on Iran’s main nuclear policies. “I do not interfere in the details of the talks,” Ayatollah Khamenei said in a speech in Tehran. “We will not step back one iota from our rights.” Iran’s leaders have always emphasized a set of “red lines,” vowing not to stop enrichment, which has been demanded
The Iran-Iraq war was caused my minor confrontations from both sides that led to a later invasion by Iraq in 1980. The war lasted for eight years and the casualties were great. The invasion of Iran was directly after Iran's Shia Revolution which was a time of internal instability for Iran. Nevertheless, the Iranian population managed to mobilize hundreds of thousands to repel the attack. Iranian women soldiers were especially involved in this war but their service was mostly ignored in Iran. Women
The aftermath of 2009 Iranian presidential election is been highlighted in a comic novel called Zahra’s Paradise. The story begins on June 16, 2009, right after the elections protests begin. It is the story of a 19 year old boy called Mehdi. He’s been disappeared in the early days of Iranian regime’s crackdown of post presidential election demonstrators. Hassan, Mehdi’s brother, who is a blogger narrates the story of him and his mother’s search for Mehdi. The book shows their struggle for finding
Evgeny Morozov’s article “Think again: The Internet” describes the expectations people had about the Internet when it first emerged. People expected the Internet to bring a new era of world peace and to shatter the world’s borders. In the author’s eyes, the actual transformation the Internet brought to the world was the simplification of communication, which is available to almost everyone and the emergence of online shopping. His opinion of the Internet is generally negative; he thinks that it is
Over the years, there have been repeated efforts to find the roots of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s intentions and motivations. This has also led in attempts to define its political culture with its ever-expanding history. A rich and ancient nation, Iran has historically been suspicious of outsiders. This maze of political factors and western audience’s lack of access to Iran since the Islamic Revolution has produced a view of the Islamic Republic of Iran that can be misconstrued. Misunderstanding