This project has been quite the journey; a big thank you to you for reading along, for sharing, as well as for reaching out, either in the comments or through my DMs, to offer loving encouragement and checking in on me. Yes, it was difficult delving so deeply into these stories, because although ultimately, these… Read More #OurStoryIsOne: Some Thoughts On The Ten Bahá’í Women Martyred in Shiraz 40 Years Ago

One of the reasons I decided to write these posts in order of age is that I wanted to have mother and daughter at both ends of the series of posts.  Well, almost, since Roya was the second youngest of the group.  But let’s just roll with it! Ezzat-Janami Eshraghi was born in 1926 in… Read More #OurStoryIsOne: Ezzat-Janami Eshraghi, 57

Can you believe that only now, almost at the end of the list of women executed on that fateful day, we have reached the first who is above the age of 30?  The first seven of the ten women (to read their stories, click here) were either in their late teens or in their twenties. … Read More #OurStoryIsOne: Tahereh Arjomandi Siyavashi, 30 years old

Despite knowing the end of each of these stories—or perhaps because of it—I have been really enjoying writing these posts.  I had read about these women before; however, writing takes a whole other level of understanding, and also, there is a lot more information about them available nowadays, including gorgeous pictures.  A special thanks to… Read More #OurStoryIsOne: Zarrin Moghimi-Abyaneh, 29 years old

At this point in the campaign, I can imagine that the stories, at least at the end, are starting to sound repetitive. As I was writing yesterday’s post, I couldn’t help but wonder if this is why we tend to tune out stories about people like these ten women.  A bit like the stories of… Read More #OurStoryIsOne: Mahshid Niroumand, 28 years old