GENEVA — A coordinated series of raids have been carried out on the homes of several Iranian Baha’is, active in a community initiative to provide a higher education programme for young members who are barred from university. Initial reports indicate that raids took place yesterday on houses in Tehran, Karaj, Isfahan, and Shiraz. As many… Read More BWBS: Baha’i educational programme targeted in raids
Oftentimes since I first started blogging here I spoke of the concept of “The Other”. A couple of times, I attempted to broach the subject of racism, and how, although we say it’s gone, it’s actually still quite present. I also wrote many times about how puzzling I find it that we tend to venerate… Read More Reflection on the Definition of Modernity
I’m all about grassroots efforts, and I truly believe that we are reading a tipping point, when a large enough group of people are going to arise to serve humanity and make a difference. The need for accompanying though is high all the more that, as Dave Meslin explains in a recent TED talk, there… Read More Apathy, redefined
In case you didn’t notice, I read a lot. On the one hand, I’m quite curious about everything. On the other, hey, let’s be honest, if I didn’t read a lot, I would have next to nothing to blog about except my day to day life, which would result in a total viewership of one:… Read More What adopting a Mode of Operation Imbibed in Learning can sound like
This is a fantastic post written by a fellow Canadian and Baha’i regarding the nature of elections and comparing the electoral process in our country to that in our religious community. The school semester has finally come to an end, and I’m soooo looking forward to a summer of blogging. During the semester I had… Read More Casting Two Ballots: Reflections of a Canadian Bahá’í Voter (via Yours Ambiguously, E.E. Talisman)
One of the best written dances between darkness and light in recent television is the comparison of the two universes in Fringe. While we might have wanted to remain in the relative ease of black versus white, the production team has added so many shades of grey that it makes a discussion about ethics, such… Read More TV Review: Fringe, Season 3, Episode 13: “Immortality” Part II
Cockroaches. I hate them. With a passion. And so, a very unusual something happened to me while watching this episode of Fringe: I closed my eyes. Thrice. Once when a cockroach came out of the first victim’s nostril (shudder), once when Altivia had cockroaches crawling all over her (double shudder) and again when Silva pulled… Read More TV Review: Fringe, Season 3, Episode 13: “Immortality” Part I
I will never, ever forget that day. I was 10 or 11, wearing a knee length black skirt with ruffles and a pretty white shirt. I had white tights with little squiggles on it, cute black shoes with bows on them, and my Mom had helped me with my hair, which was gathered at the… Read More The Dangers of Little Girls Playing Big Girl Games
I have been regularly reviewing Fringe for a little over a year now and I still absolutely love the show. While I don’t post reviews on Sahar’s Blog anymore, but rather, on Sahar’s Reviews, I thought it pertinent to post an essay I wrote about the concept of grief, letting go and Faith inspired by… Read More Fringe: Grief, Letting Go, and Faith in “6B”
The central theme to the plot of Season 3’s fourteenth episode, “6B”, is “letting go”. Olivia had to let go of what happened between Altivia and Peter if she wanted to have a relationship with him, and Mrs. Merchant had to let go of her husband to close the hole her grief was creating. By… Read More Fringe: Grief, Letting Go, and Faith in “6B”
