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Book Launch: Sexual Orientation and Torture

My dear friends I hope this finds you well. After years of dedication, I’m proud to invite you to the launch of Sexual Orientation and Torture: A Global Struggle for Justice. This isn’t just another book. It’s a witness statement—a refusal to be silent. While the powerful preach ‘traditional values,’ LGBTQI people are tortured, imprisoned, […]

Dr. Sharareh Rakhshan

Dr. Sharareh Rakhshan has served as a professor at university for more than 10 years, while she was working at Statistical Center of Iran for more than 13 years. She is also a distinguished professor in Toronto. Zagros Edition has published her book Javameh-e Poshte Bami (Top-roof Societies) in Farsi. It the Farsi translation of […]

Dr. Parisa Aflatounian

Dr. Parisa Aflatounian is a prestigious professor financial and management accounting. She is a staunch advocate of cultural progress and diversity.  Zagros Edition has published two books from Parissa: Risheh (The Roots) and Sarab (The Mirage)  

Dr. Haideh Moghissi

Dr. Haideh Moghissi has served as associate dean of external relations at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies at York University.  She  has contributed a coordinator of the Certificate for Anti-Racist Research and Practice, as chair of the Executive Committee of the Centre for Feminist Research, and as a member of the executive committee […]

Book Proposal Form

Book Proposal Form     Book Title:       Subtitle:     Author/profile:     Affiliation:     Language of the Work:       Manuscript Delivery Date:     Originality:     Type of Work:     Estimated number of pages:     Estimated Number of Images (color or b/w):     Number […]

Submission Guidelines

Submission Guidelines Zagros Editions is the publishing branch of the Zagros Foundation located in Toronto, Canada. We are committed to philosophical enlightenment through the publication of books ranging from non-fiction, children’s literature, fiction, arts, and poems. Our publications are bilingual: English and Farsi. Our commitment is to encourage critical thinking plus alternative and progressive approaches […]

The Book of Embraces by Eduardo Galeano

Book Review: A Masterpiece of Uprootedness   The Book of Embraces, Images, and Text by Eduardo Galeano; translated by Cedric Belfrage with Mark Schafer Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 1992. Paperback, 272 pages ISBN: 0393308553 Eduardo Galeano is one of the most popular writers in Latin America. He was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in […]

Memory of Fire By Eduaro Galeano

The celebrated Uruguayan writer, novelist and human rights advocate, Eduardo Hughes Galeano (1940 – 2015), is the author of masterpieces such as Open Veins of Latin America, Memory of Fire Trilogy (1982–1986), The Book of Embraces, and Upside-down. He is among the most eminent literary figures of Latin American.  Following are some of his reflections against […]

To MY Dear Beloved Bicycle Thief My dear beloved bicycle thief, I do hope and pray that this will reach you at your best possible condition of health. Last night, after finishing work at 7:30, I went down with lots of hope to ride my bike home; it was missing. I searched the whole neighborhood […]

Memory Denial

Memory Denial   Characters: Adorna (Doctor) David (Father) Fatima (daughters) Leila (mother)   Act 1. Doctor’s office (The scene shows a doctor’s office. The Doctor is sitting behind a desk and checking her medical devices. There is a knock on the door. A young girl and an old man, bent over with a walking stick, […]

The Smile of Bethune

The Smile of Bethune   This event happened on March 30, 1987 – the day my daughter, Dorna, was born.  We were hopeful when her mother was pregnant with Dorna.  But then 9 months passed and she did not get labor pains.  We were both extremely anxious.  We went to our gynecologist, a woman in […]

Beirami Rock

Beirami Rock   By Ezat Mossallanejad   I will never forget a winter night in Jahrom (Iran) when a stranger knocked on our door. I was a 7-year-old boy.  My father asked me to go to the other side of the yard and open the gate. I dragged the doors half open; I was dreadfully […]

Justice is not Revenge

Justice is not Revenge* By Ezat Mossallanejad Scene 1. A senior officer is sitting behind a desk, playing with his pistol. Guard #1 brings a detained woman. Senior Officer – Who is this? Guard # 1 – This woman is a revolutionary leader. She has provoked an uprising and mobilized many crowds. She wants to […]

GENOCIDE TODAY available on Amazon

GENOCIDE TODAY available on Amazon https://www.amazon.ca/GENOCIDE-TODAY-EZAT-MOSSALLANEJAD Genocide Today contains inter-connected chapters contributed by lifelong human rights activists. The book is unique as it has combined historical, global, and empirical analysis. It has merged community research and academic scholarship with tacit guidance about the best practice in serving survivors of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against […]

Book Review: Genocide Today

Book Review: Genocide Today As a scholar and as someone who has seen many direct and adjacent spaces of genocide firsthand, first in Iran and later as a senior Policy Analyst with the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture (CCVT), few people would be more qualified than the editor Ezat Mossallanejad to present the variegated […]