Poupeh Missaghi

Jul 5, 2024 | themarkaz.org | Poupeh Missaghi

The Iranian regime blamed Nika Shakarami’s mysterious murder on suicide. Her aunt pays homage to her and to the Woman Life Freedom movement. Poupeh MissaghiOnce upon a time, not too long ago, Nika Shakarami was a teenager like many others in Iran and around the world. But that changed forever on September 16, 2022.

Sep 14, 2023 | wordswithoutborders.org | Poupeh Missaghi |Razieh Mehdizadeh |Syd Fini |Nina Perrotta

Initially, I intended for this final installment of our series at WWB to provide a note in the nature of “let’s wrap this up” and “here is an overview of what happened to Iranians both inside Iran and dispersed all around the world since September 16, 2022, when Mahsa-Jina Amini was killed in the hands of the so-called morality police.” But I don’t think that is what I am going to do after all.

Mar 2, 2023 | wordswithoutborders.org | Moeen Farrokhi |Poupeh Missaghi |Tobias Carroll |Isabella Corletto

I am a small boy in the family room of our old house in Qazvin, where there is a dining table, a TV, several chairs, and a few columns. I am passing the sponge ball to the wall, dribbling through the chairs and columns, and shooting the ball strongly at the wall in front that acts as my goal post. (Sometimes I played with my brothers or my dad; it was hard to dribble past my brothers, but Dad was kind enough to let me do whatever I wanted.) I am commentating on my own moves.