The word for “shade” in Persian is “sāyé” (سایه).
The word “hamsāyé” (همسایه) means “one who shares your shade.” 🏡🌳
And that is how we say “neighbor” in Persian.
25 years ago, In 1998, Reed and I flew to Seattle to talk about selling Netflix to Amazon. The meeting went well, and Jeff Bezos floated a price of $15 million.
That wouldn’t have been a bad payday for less than 12 months work, but we thought we were on to something. We had finally gotten the engine to turn over so we weren’t quite ready to put it in park and hand someone else the keys.
Looking back, I know now that this trip was about much more than just selling the company.
It turns out that there’s nothing like having the option to get out that reinforces your desire to stay in.
For Reed and I, this wasn’t a sales trip.
This was a commitment ceremony.
The Taliban have announced that as the new academic year for universities begins on 6th March, it will be ONLY FOR MEN.
Afghanistan is the only country in the world where women are BANNED from university.
This is a clear violation of basic human rights. Please speak up 📣
Tomorrow Iranian women will shake the clerical regime by removing their hijab and taking to the streets across Iran to say #No2Hijab. This is called Women Revolution.
In iran #WalkingUnveiled is a crime.
Iranian men will also join us.
#حجاب_بی_حجاب
Iranian women were the spark and engine of this #IranRevolution.
Their voices must not be sidelined in the negotiation of a democratic Iran.
#WomanLifeFreedom
This is Sumaya. She has been locked up at home for 491 days, banned from going to school or university by the Taliban.
She pleads the world to listen. She begs Afghan girls to try & learn any way they can at home, so that they can rise and stand up for their basic human rights.
470 days since the Taliban BANNED teenage girls from school and 13 days since the Taliban BANNED women from university.
The women of Afghanistan have lost everything. This is gender apartheid. Plain and simple. We must speak up.
Over 600 artists worldwide have signed an open letter calling for the release of award-winning actor & writer Taraneh Alidoosti. We demand her freedom & the freedom of all those wrongfully detained in Iran.
Join us: https://t.co/f9XaEl4rSh
#FreeTaranehAlidoosti#FreeThemAll
سال ۲۰۲۲ سال شکوه همبستگی ایرانیان با هر باور و زبان و گرایش بود.
با سازماندهی و همبستگی، سال ۲۰۲۳ سال پیروزی ملت ایران خواهد بود؛ سال تحقق آزادی و عدالت در ایران.
#مهسا_امینی#IranRevoIution
This woman is going door to door in Afghanistan to ask people to rise and stand with them against the Taliban’s BAN on female education.
Afghanistan is now the ONLY country on earth that bans women & girls from going to school & university
@briankeating This line brought me to tears, "Withey, who describes himself as a religious man, said he views the whole ordeal as a blessing in disguise. If just one person had taken him up on his plea for shelter that night, he would not have saved all those people, he said." Incredible.
Sepideh Rashnoo, arrested in July for peacefully opposing the Islamic Republic's forced-hijab law, has been issued a 5-year suspended prison sentence—meaning she could be jailed at any time.
Here's how she responded.
#Masha_Amini#Iran#IranRevolution#مهسا_امینی#سپیده_رشنو
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