{"id":1,"date":"2016-08-24T18:20:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T15:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/?p=1"},"modified":"2016-09-10T16:18:13","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T13:18:13","slug":"immigrants-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/2016\/08\/24\/immigrants-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigrants Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nasrin Parvaz became a civil rights activist when the Islamic regime took power in 1979. She was arrested in 1982, tortured and spent eight years in prison. After her release in 1990, Nasrin resumed her activities and once again she found herself being followed by Islamic guards. She realized she could no longer stay in Iran and she fled here to England, where she claimed asylum in 1993. Nasrin\u2019s prison memoir was published in Farsi in 2002. A summary of her memoir was published in Feminist Review (number 73) in 2003; and it was published in Italian in 2006 by Effedue Edizioni. Nasrin\u2019s stories appeared in Exiled Writers Ink, and two of her poems were published in Over Land, Over Sea, Poems for those seeking refuge, published by Five Leaves, in 2015.<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_157\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-157\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/01-Nasrin-Parvaz-Live-Encounters-Poetry-September-2016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-157\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/01-Nasrin-Parvaz-Live-Encounters-Poetry-September-2016-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"Live Encounters Poetry, September 2016\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/01-Nasrin-Parvaz-Live-Encounters-Poetry-September-2016-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/01-Nasrin-Parvaz-Live-Encounters-Poetry-September-2016-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/01-Nasrin-Parvaz-Live-Encounters-Poetry-September-2016-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/01-Nasrin-Parvaz-Live-Encounters-Poetry-September-2016.jpg 1191w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-157\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Live Encounters Poetry, September 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_158\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/02-Nasrin-Parvaz-Live-Encounters-Poetry-September-20161.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-158\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/02-Nasrin-Parvaz-Live-Encounters-Poetry-September-20161-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"Live Encounters Poetry, September 2016\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/02-Nasrin-Parvaz-Live-Encounters-Poetry-September-20161-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/02-Nasrin-Parvaz-Live-Encounters-Poetry-September-20161-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/02-Nasrin-Parvaz-Live-Encounters-Poetry-September-20161-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/02-Nasrin-Parvaz-Live-Encounters-Poetry-September-20161.jpg 1191w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-158\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Live Encounters Poetry, September 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Click on the images above to view larger image.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0http:\/\/liveencounters.net\/live-encounters-poetry-2016\/09-september-poetry-2016\/nasrin-parvaz-immigrants\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nasrin Parvaz became a civil rights activist when the Islamic regime took power in 1979. She was arrested in 1982, tortured and spent eight years in prison. After her release in 1990, Nasrin resumed her activities and once again she found herself being followed by Islamic guards. She realized she could no longer stay in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/2016\/08\/24\/immigrants-poems\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Immigrants Poems<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,7,6,8],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-critique","tag-immigrants","tag-poetry","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}