Background

"The Baha'i International Community has now launched a global campaign, called #OurStoryIsOne, to honor the executed women and the long struggle for equality lived by women of all faiths in Iran for more than four decades which continues to this day." Source: #OurStoryIsOne website

Course Summary

In this course, students will study the various press releases issued by the Bahá’í International Community offices regarding the #OurStoryIsOne campaign in an effort to understand more deeply the purpose of the campaign. They will learn about the lives of the ten women martyred in Shiraz in 1983, and reflect on the conditions under which, for more than four decades now, women of all faiths in Iran have been struggling to achieve equality. In consultation with the instructor, students will choose a genre in which to work and, by means of prayer and meditation, take steps to generate creative content for the #OurStoryisOne campaign. The best of this content will be considered for inclusion in a special issue of elixir-journal.org, an online journal of the arts, and in the global literary reading to be hosted on zoom by elixir-journal.org to mark the end of the campaign and to celebrate its achievements.