Today, on the 9th of July, 2009, the Times of London has printed an article by Cherie Blair, wife of ex British Prime Minister Tony Blair, herself one of the U.K’s top lawyers.
In the article, she outlines the case of the leaders of the Bahá’í Faith in Iran, who are due to stand trial on charges [...]
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Cherie Blair raises profile of plight of Iranian Baha’is in the Times
Posted in Baha'i, Human Rights, tagged Baha'i, baha'i faith, cherie blair, Human Rights, iran, violation on July 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
US backing for world currency stuns markets – Telegraph
Posted in Baha'i, Current Affairs, Reflections, tagged Baha'i, baha'u'llah, g20, new world order, single currency, world currency on April 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Chinese proposal, outlined this week by central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan, calls for a “super-sovereign reserve currency” under IMF management, turning the Fund into a sort of world central bank.
The article above, in the Telegraph Newspaper, is reporting on suggestions by the Chinese government, with some support from [...]
NYLON PARLA
Posted in Baha'i, Cool Blogs, Photography, tagged boston, chicago, london, new york, paris, photoblog, Photography, street life, streetlife on March 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nylon Parla is back, this week’s theme is ‘Streetlife’
We have entries from New York, London, Paris, Boston and Chicago…..
Check it out here.
Slim-Fast
Posted in Baha'i, Food/Drink, Living the Life, Reflections, tagged awakening, awareness, Baha'i, detachment, fast, Norouz, Nowruz, slim fast, slimfast on March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As I write this entry from my iPhone I sit on an overland train, traversing the urban jungle that is South London.
I am currently fasting.
The Bahá’í fast is a period of prayer and detachment. This means no food or drink (including water) from sunrise to sunset for 19 days, ending on sunset of the [...]
nineteen days
Posted in Baha'i, Cool Blogs, Other Blogs, Photography, Reflections, tagged Baha'i, baha'i faith, fast, naw ruz, photo, photoblog, Photography on March 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Nineteen days, much like the last initiative I was involved in, ‘morn and eve,’ is a photoblog collaboration.
However….the difference with nineteen days is that it is one specifically for the nineteen day long Baha’i Fast.
Starting on the 2nd of March and ending on the 20th March, ‘nineteen days’ will feature 3 photographers (and 3 photos) [...]
Top British Comedians’ Stand Up for Baha’is in Iran
Posted in Baha'i, Human Rights, Media, Popular Culture, tagged Alexei Sayle, Baha'i, bahais, Bill Bailey, David Baddiel, government, Human Rights, human rights abuse, iran, Jack Dee, Jimmy Carr, Jo Brand, Lee Mack, Mark Thomas, Meera Syal, Morwenna Banks, Omid Djalili, persecution, rainn wilson, Rob Brydon, russell brand, Sanjeev Bhasker, Sean Lock, shirin ebadi, universal declaration of human rights on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The persecution of the Baha’is in Iran has reached crisis point with the unfair trial of seven of its members, on ‘espionage charges for Israel,’ which carries the death penalty.
The Baha’is are being defended by Iran’s only Nobel Prize winner (for peace), Human Rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi.
However, Shirin has been threatened and had her office [...]
The hiatus is over.
Posted in Baha'i, Cool Blogs, Other Blogs, Photography, tagged Baha'i, baha'u'llah, chicago, cities, diverse, london, new york, paris, photoblog, Photography, unity in diversity on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After a long hiatus, Nylon Parla is back.
The photoblog collaboration features Baha’i photographers from four different world class cities, submitting their interpretation of a weekly theme. We like to think this is an artistic example of ‘unity in diversity.’
This week’s theme is ‘culture’.
Kick starting Nylon Parla back into action are photographs from myself (London), [...]
Viva la Revolución, Part II
Posted in Baha'i, Baha'i Perspectives, History, Reflections, tagged 12th imam, Baha'i, baha'i faith, baha'u'llah, iran, mahdi, persia, revolution, revolutionary, shiraz, the bab, twelth imam on February 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Originally written for Bahá’í Perspectives:
Continued from Part 1
Classical scholar Alexis de Tocqueville differentiated between three types of revolutions.
1) political revolutions
2) sudden and violent revolutions that seek not only to establish a new political system but to transform an entire society
3) slow but sweeping transformations of the entire society that take several generations to bring about [...]
every morn and eve
Posted in Baha'i, Cool Blogs, Friends' Blogs, Photography, Reflections, tagged amy sahba, Baha'i, baha'i faith, baha'u'llah, blog, photoblog, Photography on February 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
‘every morn and eve’ is a photoblog founded by an old friend of mine from my university days at Queen Mary, University of London (2000-2003).
Now in New York, Amy Sahba is a journalist for CNN and founded this blog with her friend Leila.
Not only am I drawing your attention to it because it is a [...]
Photos from the Bahá’í Regional Conference in London
Posted in Baha'i, Photography, tagged Baha'i, london, photo, regional conference on January 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
So I attended the Bahá’í Regional Conference in London, UK.
One of 41 conferences spanning planet Earth. It was amazing, inspirational, refreshing, educational and also entertaining.
More information about it is here.
I was also fortunate to be one of the official photographers for it….
So since this is a short post to get things moving again….and since a [...]
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