Book Launch in Montreal
I sincerely invite you to attend my book launch (Genocide Toady) in Montreal (Dec—09, 2023 at 5:30 p.m., Here is the poster.
Genocide Today (book order)
Book Order You can order Genocide Today by using the following email and sending $30.00 plus the shipping cost through e-transfer or issuing a cheque to the order of Zagros Editions: zagroseditions@gmail.com. Another option is sending us a simple email and ordering the book. We will forward the invoice to you by using PayPal and […]
Genocide Today :
A New Book Published by Us I have recently published a book, as the editor, entitled Genocide Today. It contains inter-connected chapters contributed by Nineteen lifelong human rights activists. The book profoundly analyzes the systemic extermination of forgotten communities about whom the international community has preferred silence. Genocide Today is based on decades of experience with survivors and […]
On Forgiveness
Collective Trauma
On Torture, Tyranny, and Rehabilitation
Muslim Diaspora
Muslim Diaspora: Gender, Culture and Identity by Haideh Moghissi (York University, Canada) Muslim Diaspora identifies those aspects of migratory experience that shatter or reinforce a group’s attachment to its homeland and affect its readiness to adapt to a new country. The contributors to this collection examine many dimensions of life in the Diaspora and demonstrate […]
Ezat Mossallanejad
I have worked with marginalized people, especially newcomers, since 1980. I work as a Trauma Counsellor/Policy Analyst and Researcher with the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture. I also run the Zagros Foundation as a charitable cultural and social agency. I am a Pen Canada, The Writers Union of Canada, and Academia member. The Canada […]
UPCOMING BOOK LAUNCH
Zagros Foundation has been working for the last two years in compiling a comprehensive book entitled Genocide Today. It is in the process of publication and will be released soon. We are organizing a book launch in Toronto and will announce the date and place very soon.
Book Review: 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 […]
Convention on the Rights of the Child: 30 Years After
Convention on the Rights of the Child: 30 Years After By Ezat Mossallanejad On November 20, 1989, after ten years of negotiations, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted the Convention on the Rights of Child (CRC), creating a comprehensive treaty for protection of children. This marvelous international instrument was referred by human rights workers […]
Eddie Nemati: A Poet of Love and Resistance
Eddie Nemati: A Poet of Love and Resistance By Ezat Mossallanejad The Iranian poet, writer and community activist, Mr. Eddie Nemati (1954-2019) was accepted as a client of the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture (CCVT) on August 28, 2006. He struggled against cancer for years and lost his life on June 09, 2019. He […]
Saddam’s Hanging: Metamorphosis of Justice and a Mockery of Human Rights
Saddam’s Hanging: Metamorphosis of Justice and a Mockery of Human Rights By Ezat Mossallanejad On Sunday November 5, 2006, the former Iraqi tyrant Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death by an Iraqi court in a politicized trial. Fifty six days later, he was executed by hanging in Baghdad’s Shiite neighborhood of Kazimiyah (Friday, December 29, […]
Collective Trauma and Its Impacts
Collective Trauma and Its Impacts By Ezat Mossallanejad Introduction In this article, a modest attempt will be made to study the nature of collective trauma by tracing its roots. Special attention will be given to the impact of collective trauma on individuals, communities and the entire society. Finally, suggestions will be made for alleviation of […]
Violence and Poverty
Violence and Poverty By Ezat Mossallanejad, Ph.D. Based on our experience at the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture (CCVT), there is a potential link between poverty and violence. Where abject poverty causes human life to lose its value, death may emerge as an unquestionable demonstration of honor, courage, loyalty, and moral character. This can […]
My Changing Idea of justice
My Changing Idea of justice* By Ezat Mossallanejad I came to know about the concept of justice at the age of eight, when my teacher, a religious gentleman, reiterated the following maxim: “God is just.” I doubted this message when I witnessed a bereaved father in our neighbourhood stretching both his hands towards the sky, […]
Surviving Torture through
Surviving Torture through Self Rehabilitation and Love My entire life is a story of trauma and exile on one hand, and love and happiness on the other. I have escaped tyranny and persecution three times in my life, and I am a victim and survivor of torture, having spent four years in jail in Iran […]
The Philosophy of Philistines
The Philosophy of Philistines Tanya Schryer & Ezat Mossallanejad In his masterpiece “The Bridge over the Drina”, the Yugoslav novelist Ivo Andric, speaks of a Turkish foreman who orders death sentence by means of horrible techniques of torture against a Bosnian worker due to his alleged rebellious attempts: “Everything must be made ready so that […]