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e*lix*ir #17: Dedicated to the Ten Martyrs of Shiraz
Summer 2024
 

TABLE OF CONTENTS


Editorial

• Art and Advocacy

Fiction

• The Bluest Part of the Sky by Tanin
• The Lake by Nourin Omidi
• The Rope by Mehrsa Mastoori

Plays

• Tahereh and Jamshid: A One-Act Play by Sandra Lynn Hutchison

Feature

• The Skies She Didn’t See: Paintings & Poetry by Jean Wilkey and Sandra Lynn Hutchison

Letters

• A Letter to Mona from Shiraz by Maava
• A Letter to Mona from Yazd by Bahar Rohani

Poetry

• Soul Garments by June Paisa Perkins

Remembering the Ten Martyrs of Shiraz

• The Patio by Nourin Omidi
• A Free Spirit by Nava Nazifi
• The Flowers of Shiraz: My Spiritual Superheroes by Shadi Tajeddini
• Mona Mahmoudnejad: Through the Eyes of a Child by Kimiya Roohani
• The Other Mona: Forever Seventeen by Mona Shahgholi
• The Flowers of Shiraz: The Story of a Play by Hannan Hashemi
• Free Spirits and Butterflies by Sandra Lynn Hutchison

Prison Stories

• One Stitch at a Time by Sama Khalily
• Where is Hannan Hashemi? by Sandra Lynn Hutchison
• My Thirty-Four Days in an Iranian Prison by Hannan Hashemi

Dreams and Visions

• What Mona Wanted: A Prayer for Resilience by Kimiya Roohani
• I Dream of a Country by Maava
• The Dreams of a Planet Earth Citizen by Shadi Tajeddini
• Iran Will Rise by Taranom

Personal Reflections on Bahá’í Texts

• The Power of Faith in Facing Afflictions by Ghazal

Comics

• Ruhi & Riaz by Sama Khalily

Announcements

• More Prison Poems — A Tale of Love by Mahvash Sabet


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Ruhi & Riaz

by SAMA KHALILY