After 10 years in prison for belonging to the Bahai community, the largest religious minority in Iran, she was released without having been able to prove a single charge. On 10 October 2017, Mahvash Sabet was named 2017 International Writer of Courage by PEN International and co-winner of the annual Pinter Prize.I still remember my tears of joy when I learned of the release of Mahvash Sabet in 2017. These English adaptations were published by George Ronald in 2013. These were eventually adapted by Bahiyyih Nakhjavani from translations into English from the original Persian completed by Violette and Ali Nakhjavani. While in prison, Sabet wrote a number of poems. Sabet was released from Evin prison on 18 September 2017. Although she resides in Tehran, she had been summoned to Mashhad by the Ministry of Intelligence, ostensibly on the grounds that she was required to answer questions related to the burial of an individual in the Bahá’í cemetery in that city. Sabet was arrested in Mashhad on 5 March 2008. While all of the other Friends were arrested at their homes in Tehran on, Mrs. They have a son, Foroud Sabet, 33, and a daughter, Negar Sabet, 24, both born in Hamadan. It was after this that she became director of the BIHE, where she also has taught psychology and management. After the Islamic revolution, however, like thousands of other Iranian Bahá’í educators, she was fired from her job and blocked from working in public education. In her professional role, she also collaborated with the National Literacy Committee of Iran. She began her professional career as a teacher and also worked as a principal at several schools. In university, she studied psychology, obtaining a bachelor’s degree. Sabet moved to Tehran when she was in the fifth grade. She also served as secretary to the Friends.īorn Mahvash Shahriyari on 4 February 1953 in Ardestan, Mrs.

For the last 15 years, she has been director of the Bahá’í Institute for Higher Education, which provides alternative higher education for Bahá’í youth. Mahvash Sabet is a teacher and school principal who was dismissed from public education for being a Bahá’í.

Mahvash sabet poems