What a year to have a centenary! The Baha’i Faith in Australia is celebrating the development of the Faith in the 100 years since it was first established here in 1920. Those of you who have been following my blog for a while will know that I am a Baha’i. I have been volunteering this year to help with the celebrations and reflections on this centenary. Like many other … [Read more...] about 100 Years of the Baha’i Faith in Australia – some personal reflections
Belief
Islamic Museum of Australia
“I would like to visit the Islamic Museum,” said my mother when I visited her in Melbourne last year. My mother likes visiting art exhibitions, but she doesn’t visit many museums. Her request surprised me. But I shouldn’t have been surprised. Like many people she has been appalled at the anti-Muslim rhetoric which is too often heard nowadays. She has always been interested in … [Read more...] about Islamic Museum of Australia
Enough! Australian Lawyers Call on Iran to Release Baha’i Seven
On Wednesday night I attended an annual human rights event which I hope I never have to attend again. It marked yet another year during which Iran’s authorities have trampled on the human rights of its own people. The event in Sydney highlighted the unjust imprisonment of the seven leaders of Iran’s Baha’i community. Every year the anniversary of the unjust imprisonment of … [Read more...] about Enough! Australian Lawyers Call on Iran to Release Baha’i Seven
War, Emotions and Beliefs
Over the last few months I have been dealing with life, the universe and the mundane. I had so much on my plate that I regretfully decided to reduce the pressure by taking a pause on my blog. But I am back! Over the next few weeks I will share some of what I have been doing. Today I thought I would give you an update on my book project. When I was in Melbourne for the birth of … [Read more...] about War, Emotions and Beliefs
The Prison Poet is Heard
I write if only to stir faint memories of flight in these wing-bound birds, to open the cage of the heart for a moment trapped without words. For how can one not faint for these women, beaten so brutally? How can one not fear for them, suffering such tyrannical cruelty. Mahvash Sabet, ‘The Perfume of Poetry’, Prison Poems, p. 32 A woman sits in her prison cell in Iran, poetry … [Read more...] about The Prison Poet is Heard
