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The Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran – 1

Freedom in Iran can only come when Iranian women have equal rights and are free to choose their own destiny, Masih Alinejd tells Carnegie Endowment’s Middle East program devoted to a discussion on her recently published memoir the women’s rights in Iran.

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My Stealthy Freedom – Episode 5

My Stealthy Freedom – Episode 5
It is now years later and Masih’s journalism have turned her into a target. Masih finds that she is no longer safe in Tehran working as a political journalist. She is forced into exile during the Iranian elections of 2009 but finds a way to protest against the Islamic Republic with her online movement.

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My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran

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In this intense memoir, Alinejad, an Iranian journalist and women’s rights advocate, writes about her life of resistance in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Alinejad chronicles her teenage years in a rural village in the 1990s, pulling pranks as a kind of rebellion against the supreme leader (in a high school Quran-reading competition, she recited an epic poem by Ahmad Shamlou in Persian); as an adult, she became a prominent, globally recognized advocate for women’s rights in Iran. Read more “My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran”