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Musician Armen Chakmakian Composes Song for Neda
The ongoing protests over a rigged election and freedom from a 30-year regime in Iran have inspired Grammy-nominated musician Armen Chakmakian to compose a song for Neda Agha-Soltan, the woman who died on the streets of Tehran from a single gunshot wound, yet has been a symbol of this new, brewing revolution and garnered an [...]
Neda, Continued: Wrong Photo, Burial and Words From Fiance
A few details have come to light since the tragic death of Neda, the woman who was hit by a sniper bullet during a protest in Iran after the fallout from the election - a scene caught on tape and viewed all around the world and one that made her a symbol of justice and [...]
Neda: The Symbol of a Brewing Revolution
“When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men,” reads the epitaph on the tomb of Rumi, famed 13th century Persian poet and mystic. Though he died hundreds of years ago, those words ring truer today than ever before, most certainly when it came [...]