{"id":1268,"date":"2012-10-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bahai.org.au\/index.php\/news\/poet-dedicates-launch-of-new-volume-to-tahirih\/"},"modified":"2017-10-14T04:52:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T04:52:07","slug":"poet-dedicates-launch-of-new-volume-to-tahirih","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bahai.org.au\/index.php\/poet-dedicates-launch-of-new-volume-to-tahirih\/","title":{"rendered":"Poet dedicates launch of new volume to T\u00e1hirih"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bahai.org.au\/Portals\/0\/rosh%202012.jpg\" alt=\"Poet dedicates launch of new volume to T\u00e1hirih\" \/><figcaption>South Australian poet Roshanak Amrein<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>An accomplished South Australian poet has paid tribute to T\u00e1hirih, a 19<sup>th<\/sup> century Persian poet who called for the emancipation of women decades before suffragette activism in Europe.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Roshanak Amrein made her comments at the Adelaide launch of her second volume, <em>Songs from a Far Island<\/em>, an event held at the South Australia Art Gallery Auditorium on 28 October.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Amrein, whose first collection of poetry, <em>One Million Flights<\/em>, was launched in 2010, was the subject of an extensive interview on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/radionational\/programs\/poetica\/one-million-flights\/2952894\"><em>ABC<\/em> Radio National program <em>Poetica<\/em> in 2011.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The presenter of <em>Poetica<\/em>, the poet Mike Ladd, launched her latest volume.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Amrein dedicated the launch to T\u00e1hirih (1818-1852) who is considered to be the first prominent woman to unveil in Iran and to question political and religious orthodoxy.<\/p>\n<p>T\u00e1hirih has inspired generations of women of all faiths in Iran and her influence has spread worldwide mainly because of her heroic role in Baha\u2019i history, exemplifying the Faith\u2019s principle of the equality of women and men.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Amrein speaks up for Iranian women and salutes their courage in working to obtain the human rights that have been taken away from them and others in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIranian women are hardworking and educated; they are very opinionated and very artistic. They have remained very much part of the society despite 33 years of oppression,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Iran in 1974, Dr Amrein came as a refugee to Australia in 1994 after experiencing persecution as a Baha\u2019i, including being denied entry into university because of her religion. Because they were Baha\u2019is, her uncle was executed, her mother was fired as a teacher, and her brothers had to flee the country.<\/p>\n<p>She spoke little English when she arrived, but repeated Year 12 and qualified as a dentist by 2000 and now has her own practice in Adelaide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An accomplished South Australian poet has paid tribute to T\u00e1hirih, a 19th century Persian poet who called for the emancipation of women decades before suffragette activism in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-releases","category-uncategorised"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Poet dedicates launch of new volume to T\u00e1hirih - 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