Razieh Mehdizadeh

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.

Jul 10, 2023 | wordswithoutborders.org | Syd Fini |Moeen Farrokhi |Razieh Mehdizadeh |Isabella Corletto

The prisoner depicted here is Mohammad Mehdi Karami, a protestor who said these words on a phone call from prison to his father. He was executed by the Islamic Republic regime on January 7, 2023, alongside another protestor, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini. The man depicted here as being put on trial is the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader, Seyyed Ali Khamenei.

Jun 14, 2023 | wordswithoutborders.org | Razieh Mehdizadeh |Moeen Farrokhi |Wesley Lewis

When Mahsa-Jina’s revolution started, I was continents away from Iran, so I decided to write a piece about the shining body of this revolution every day. Today, more than two hundred days have passed, and we are still carrying on with this revolutionary movement, a resurrection through the three words Woman Life Freedom.