#61 Persian poetry – a weapon in the Iranian freedom fight, with Fatemeh Ekhtesari and Mehdi Mousavi.

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In this episode we talk with Fatemeh Ekhtesari and Mehdi Mousavi about poetry as a practise in Iran. We talk about poetry’s strong roots in Iranian culture, and how it’s being used today as a weapon in the fight against the Iranian regime. We talk about censorship in Iran and the poetic movement post-modern Ghazal. We discuss how the regime exercise systematic violence, torture and discrimination against its population, and the ways in which Fatemeh Ekhtesari and Mehdi Mousavi have used their...

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