I was utterly humbled to be invited by my seventeen-year-old niece to run a workshop as part of the SHSM (Specialist High Skills Major) programme for Pierre Elliott Trudeau High School in Toronto Canada. Together they had created a programme to celebrate International Women’s Day to empower females.
Read MoreLast night I watched the last episode of series three of The Handmaid’s Tale. It has stirred up so many bitter emotions, memories and has pushed my brain to think really hard. A perfect remedy for my struggling mind during this third lockdown! Margaret Atwood has a fascinating mind. She is sharp, clever, observant, sarcastic, funny yet very tender. Her attention to detail with regard to the female self-talk (the internal dialogue) is just so beautiful, raw and real.
Read MoreNavid means Glad tidings /A fortunate promise. His mother gave him this name twenty seven years ago. He grew up in the suburbs of Shiraz to become an athlete a wrestler and to bear the Iranian flag with pride to bring home Olympic medals. He was Javanmard and Pahlavan (Athlete, a strong man who does good for the community).
Where is he now?
He has been executed and buried in silence in the middle of the night by the brutal regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
