Women in Iran are risking getting raped, molested, publicly humiliated and murdered for their right to not wear a hijab. When women in democratic and liberal countries enjoying civil freedoms say that they wear hijab because of choice, they are doing a great insult and disservice to the women fighting for basic rights elsewhere. It…

When the conversation had dried upAnd there was nothing left to talkWhen silence paced back and forth between the wallsWe gazed into each other’s eyes and realizedNone of us knew each other at all