Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch Based on reports by “BahaiNews”, the surge of denials of education for Baha’is this year has been as substantial as in previous years, after the announcement of university…
Education Is Not a Crime
Iran: Dozens of Bahá’í Students Denied Enrollment in University
Source: united4iran At least 47 Iranian students belonging to one of the country’s most persecuted religious minorities have been denied the right to higher education this year, according to HRANA news agency. Despite their outstanding…
Nasim Bagheri Charges: Teaching Baha’i Youth
Source: www.iranwire.com By Kian Sabeti Translation by Iran Press Watch On Sunday morning, 29 April 2014, intelligence agents arrested Nasim Bagheri, one of the professors at Iran’s “Baha’i Institute of Higher Education” (BIHE), at her…
A Report on Nasim Bagheri’s Situation in Evin Prison
Source: www.hra-news.org HRANA News Agency – Nasim Bagheri, one of the instructors of Bahai Online University, was arrested in June 2011 and sentenced to 4 years in prison. She is suffering from thyroid but despite multiple…
From Nayriz to New York: Hussein Ahdieh and the Story of Harlem Prep
Source: www.iranwire.com By SEAN NEVINS In 1961, a young immigrant by the name of Hussein Ahdieh arrived in New York Harbor aboard the RMS Queen Mary, an ocean liner carrying over 1,000 other passengers. He arrived…
Underground University: Bay Area Teachers Beam Secret Online Classes to Iran
Source: www.mercurynews.com By Katy Murphy, [email protected] Farhad Sabetan poses for a photograph at Cal State East Bay in Hayward, Calif., on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016. Sabetan is an economics lecture at the university. (Anda Chu/Bay Area…
Interview with BIHE Instructor
Source: Amber Lee (facebook page) By Amber Lee It’s easy to take education for granted. I met a Cal State East Bay professor who teaches economics to students on campus. But when he’s off, he…
Secret Meetings
Source: www.ebtoday.com By Natalie Feulner Students of the Bahá’í faith are banned from education in Iran — but that doesn’t stop lecturer Farhad Sabetan from teaching them Cal State East Bay economics lecturer Farhad Sabetan…
Street Artist Astro Creates an Illusion of Light for Baha’is in Iran
Source: en.iranwire.com By Sean Nevins Taking her normal route to a lunch spot on Frederick Douglass Boulevard in Central Harlem on a hot summer day, Randi, 45, looked across the street and saw something she would describe…
Big and Bold: Not A Crime Strikes in the Heart of Brazil
Source: en.iranwire.com By Sean Nevins Milza Diana, 66, wakes up every morning in her two-bedroom flat in the heart of São Paulo, Brazil, slides open the window, and looks out across Roosevelt Square at a gigantic mural…
Fouad Moghaddam Released on Two Months’ Furlough with Moratorium on His Sentence
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to “BahaiNews”, Fouad Moghaddam, a Baha’i resident of Isfahan, came home for two months’ leave, which may be extended, and his conviction was suspended. According to a…
From Iran to Harlem: Fighting Discrimination With Street Art
Source: www.villagevoice.com By Anita Abedian Street artist Erik Burke stands in front of his mural at the Harriet Tubman School in Harlem. On a recent summer day in East Harlem, Alexander Keto stood on a ladder…
Muin Mohammadi Deprived of Education for Being a Baha’i
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to “BahaiNews”, Muin Mohammadi, a Baha’i citizen of Mashhad, was barred from continuing his education, despite completing his graduate studies and successfully gaining admission to a post…
Building Bridges: Street Artist Keto Links West Africa and Iran
By Sean Nevins Among the bustle of afternoon traffic outside Public School #7 (PS7) in East Harlem, street artist Alexandre Keto from Sao Paulo, Brazil sat with his feet dangling from the railing where he was…
Rone’s Harlem Mural Exposes Education Apartheid in Iran
By Sean Nevins “Growing up as a Baha’i in Iran I always had that fear that anything can happen in a second,” says Nasim Biglari, a 29-year-old Baha’i from Tehran, Iran. “And that fear remained in…
Education as a Weapon in Iran and South Africa
Source: en.iranwire.com By Amy Fehilly BIHE students graduate in Iran. The university is forced to operate underground Education is usually seen as the key to better societies and better futures. But it can also be used as…
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