Media

A Persian language webzine with a growing readership, aaSoo.org explores important social, cultural and political events and trends.  It promotes open and inclusive debate on contemporary issues, with focus on minorities and human rights.  aaSoo.org offers high quality writings, investigative features, in-depth interviews, book reviews, multimedia features, the best from international publications.

A dedicated microsite in aaSoo.org presents exclusive multimedia content on Abdul-Baha’s life and teachings, his ideas and vision, and his intellectual contributions as a modern Iranian thinker.

Films and Documentary Projects:

Years of Fear, a personal tale, by Amin Zargham, about his recollections of persecution culminating with the destruction of a Baha’i sacred place, the House of the Bab in Shiraz.

Iranian Revolutionary Justice, a documentary by BBC on summary trials and executions in Iran.

To Light a Candle, a documentary by Maziar Bahari, highlighting the persecution of Baha’is in Iran through personal stories of people involved in the Baha’i Institute of Higher Education (BIHE).

Iranian Taboo, documentary by Reza Allamehzadeh on the persecution of Bahai’s in Iran.

Face to Face – At the Threshold of a Cold Season, play by Niloofar Beyzaie on the tale of two prominent Iranian women a century apart, Tahirih and Forough Farrokhzad, each a beacon of women’s rights in their time