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Just Access Campaign Launches
Arseh Sevom — Arseh Sevom, The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Sanctioned Life, and United4Iran are launching Just Access, an international campaign focusing on the unintended effects...
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#Iran — The Smell of Change
Arseh Sevom — As we were getting ready to post this week’s review, we heard the good news that Nassrin Sotoudeh and eight other political prisoners had been released from prison. Author Pejman...
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#Iran — Is Rouhani The One
Arseh Sevom—Could Hassan Rouhani be The One? Cartoonist Mana Neyastani taps into the zeitgeist with his image of Iran’s most recent president as Neo from the Matrix. Since Rouhani’s inauguration, a...
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#Iran — Has the Time Come for a Thaw in Relations with Its Own People?
Arseh Sevom — In this week’s overview, we learn that the short term political aims of sanctions have long term effects on the most vulnerable. Improved relations may actually lead to some ease in US...
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Azerbaijan: Rebuilding Culture from the Ruins
Arseh Sevom — In the first of a two-part article documenting his conversation with Azeri opposition member “O.”, Arturo Desimone uncovers a movement struggling to reclaim its heritage of critical...
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#Iran: Let’s Make a (Nuclear) Deal
Arseh Sevom — Nuclear negotiations are eclipsing other news in Iran. There are hopes that an agreement can be reached and that at least some of the sanctions will be relaxed. Attention to foreign...
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Azerbaijan: Re-establishing Civil Society
Arseh Sevom–In part two of Arturo Desimone’s interview with the civil society activist “O” in Azerbaijan, we read about the struggles to create capacity for critically analyzing the actions taken by...
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#Iran — Free Expression, Dream or Reality?
Arseh Sevom— This week’s review looks at issues of free expression. How would Iran’s culture change with open communication and the free flow of information? When will Iran finally have a safe public...
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#Iran — Where’s My Gold?
Arseh Sevom – Anyone who has every read Joseph Heller’s classic novel depicting the insanity of war and military life, Catch 22, won’t be surprised by speculations of unscrupulous profiteering in the...
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US Sanctions Law Shuts Down Online Courses in #Iran
Arseh Sevom — No more pencils, no more books for students of Coursera living in sanctioned countries. This week, the online education service, Coursera, was blocked in Iran, Syria, Sudan, and Cuba as a...
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Nasrin Sotoudeh: Equality Will Prevail
Arseh Sevom — In this exclusive interview with Arseh Sevom editor Mohammad Reza Sardari, human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh discusses the very personal impact of her struggle for equality and justice....
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The Day I Became a Feminist
Arseh Sevom–Feminism is essentially the idea that women and men should have equal rights and opportunities. Why is it that many who care about equal rights do not identify as feminists? This is a...
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Iran’s Military-Electoral Quagmire
Arseh Sevom – Over the years, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Basij have become increasingly active in the political sphere, interfering with the operation of free and fair elections with...
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What’s So Funny About Peace, Love, and Understanding in the #CyrusCylinder
Arseh Sevom — Is Europe the “unique source” of human rights and individual rights, as some scholars claim? Was fifth century Athenian democracy the origin of political equality (as long as you weren’t...
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House of Cinema Attacked
Arseh Sevom – July 15, 2013 was another in a long list of bad days for Iran’s beleaguered House of Cinema. On the order of the Ministry of Culture, the building that houses the organization was broken...
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Security Forces Unlawfully Close Iran’s House of Cinema
Arseh Sevom believes that the interference from governmental bodies and security forces is the primary cause for the problems facing one of the biggest NGOs in Iran. What has happened to the members...
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What is the Green Movement Dreaming About?
The Green Movement:Seizing the State or Democratizing Society? Edited by Shervin Nekuee, published by the Hivos Knowledge ProgrammeThe Green Movement four years after the 2009 protests Arseh Sevom:...
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The Green Movement and Avoiding Violent Opposition
The Green Movement:Seizing the State or Democratizing Society? Edited by Shervin Nekuee, published by the Hivos Knowledge ProgrammeArseh Sevom–The presence of women in the public demonstrations of the...
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Iran — Fearing the Tyrant Not the Change
The Green Movement:Seizing the State or Democratizing Society? Edited by Shervin Nekuee, published by the Hivos Knowledge Programme Arseh Sevom–The final post of a three-part series summarizingthe...
View ArticleLawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh Stages Sit-In
Arseh Sevom–Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh is protesting her three-year suspension from practicing law with a protest in front of the Iran Bar Association. She has been joined by a number of other...
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