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Feminist School: Below speech made by Mansoureh Shojaee in the special ceremony for Bahareh Hedayat’s campaign which was held by Amnesty International in Erlangen on April 5th 2011 :
Today we are witnesses of a spring, which is sprouting all over the world. Today we are thinking of a young woman called Bahareh Hedayat, who is detained in the notorious Evin prison in Tehran. Her name means “spring†in Farsi. We have gathered here to plant a tree on this spring day and to overcome the (...)

Feminist School :The Feminist School had been at the Röda Sten Culture Association’s Art Exhibition in Sweden for March 8th 2011. Below speech made by Roya Sahraei member of the Feminist School at the exhibition:
First of all I’d like to thank everybody who has made a big effort to hold this creative, significant and beautiful event. Also I’d like to thank Roda Sten art center for inviting “The Feminist School†as an active member of “Iranian women’s movement†; the movement that (...)

Feminist School:Today is Tuesday, March 8th, 2011, another Women’s Day Tuesday, and coincides with the second Tuesday of the Green Movement protests. Women’s call for equality is interwoven with a general cry for democracy on one and the same day; a Tuesday which belongs to women alone, is designated for a pro-democracy protest as well.
Today, all over the world, a celebration is due to the one hundred years of International Women’s Day, though in my country so many women are kept behind bars (...)

Feminist School:It has been years since we have not come together except to commemorate of the anniversaries of the loss of our loved ones. Year after year we have come together on November in the memory of one, August for another, February and June and July for others, etc. We do not know why we have forgotten to remember the celebration of the happy birthdays. Alas! These are hard times... we are death-ridden!
Up to a couple of years ago on Febrauary 13th we used to go to the (...)

Feminist school :Looking at recent events in Iran, we may contrast the predominant views of Green Movement activists participating inside Iran and the attitudes of many Iranians observing these events from abroad. Iranians inside Iran show no strong interest in defining the movement in totalizing terms as either Islamic or secular, and nor do they oppose the movement to secularism or Islam. By contrast, many Iranian intellectuals and activists outside of Iran (and other interested (...)

Feminist School: It is one year since the ‘Green Movement’ was born, a broad movement which not only women as a mass formed its fringes but also engineered its structure and ensured its participation was fully utilised in practicalities of preparation and organisation and were able to transfer knowledge and experience of the women’s movement, which the most important element was ‘avoidance of violence’ in the struggle.
The connection between the Women’s movement and the green movement has (...)

Feminist school: It has been nearly one month since the beginning of Nasrin Sotoudeh’s hunger strike. Throughout this time, many scholars, lawyers, politicians, social activists, women’s rights activists, as well as Sotoudeh’s own lawyers, through published statements, interviews and various reports; have condemned the continued detention of this loyal human rights lawyer, and demanded her immediate release. For more than a month, her two toddler children (Mehraveh and Nima) have been (...)

Feminist school :The 5th International Congress of the International Society for the History of Islamic Medicine in Turkey was the host of many scholars of this field from different countries . one of the attendance was Elaheh Bagheri the following article was presented on a poster . the congress was held from 25th to 28th of October in Istanbul and Elaheh Bagheri’s Poster with the title of "Women position in medicine history and Their role expansion of the Islamic medicine" won the first (...)

Feminist School: Most of the German newspapers have published a beautiful photo of our courageous, brave colleague and friend Shiva along with a detailed biographical report or her activities and achievements. I caught myself touching the papers, which in black and white, in words and pictures, have brought to life the portrait of the brave woman of our movement, and had placed her within my reach in Germany. Without thinking, I translated the text to the language of my heart, so I can (...)

Feminist School: 29th of August 2010the security forces entered Nasrin Sotoudeh’s office and her home at the same time and raided her personal files and belongings and handed a notice of attending a court hearing session based in the notorious Evin prison. Then Nasrin Sotoudeh was arrested after reporting tothe special court in Evin prison. Reza Khandan, Nasrin’s husband, wrote the following pices and described how the security forces searched their home:
Ten officers with cold faces and (...)