Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past.

There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make us happier or more content?

Reality has become so intolerable, she said, so bleak, that all I can paint now are the colors of my dreams.

Khatami is a symptom and not the cause of change in Iran.

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and create to new ones.

Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.