13 Year Old Iranian, Tara, singing Adele’s Someone Like You
According to Massoud Hayoun, a writer for the Atlantic’s international section, the teen is also participating in an underground music movement at a time when female vocalists are banned in Iran. And he applauds her for her courage.
This video and this story about the underground music movement, are all sorts of incredible. Again, an excellent example of the ways in which music becomes the space for claims to freedom of speech and the politics of expression.
Beautiful.
You need not come any longer, Freedom. We have found our joys in your absence.
—Iranian poetess, Elham Eslami, who died in a car accident yesterday along with her poet husband, Gholamreza Boroosan
Kyrgyzstan’s government was overthrown today by its people. We salute them.
The most important and unprecedented news I’ve heard thus far:
Iranian women are taking their veils and scarves off all over Tehran. The consequences of such an act includes beating, incarceration and stoning.
