Dad kills his three daughters with a poisonous snake

By: Alexandra Kinias As a screenplay and fiction writer, I often find it challenging, as many writers do, to come up with original ideas to engage the reader. And while we, writers, spice the ideas to become ready to be told, we forget that human life tragedies can bring us all to shame. As I often follow the news for inspiration, not in my wildest creative imagination was I ever prepared to read about the father who let a poisonous snake bite his three daughters while they were asleep. According to ‘Al Youm Al Sabea’a’ newspaper, the three kids were … Continue reading Dad kills his three daughters with a poisonous snake

How a bared breast triggered a ‘cultural earthquake’

Golshifteh Farhani was Iran’s biggest film star. But when she bared her breast in a French video, she was banished from the country and became a lightning rod for the divisions in Iranian society In January of this year the parents of the exiled Iranian actor Golshifteh Farahani took a call at their apartment in Tehran from a man who said he was an official of the supreme court of the Islamic Republic. He began shouting at her father, telling him that his daughter would be punished, that her breasts would be cut off and presented to him on a … Continue reading How a bared breast triggered a ‘cultural earthquake’