Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.

Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe.

For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy.

We in ancient countries have our past- we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about the promise of the future.

The more we die, the stronger we will become