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Many have died tragic – and silent – deaths in the post-election violence in Iran. But one woman, Neda Agha Soltan, became a symbol with her death caught on video. Here, Neda’s fiancee, Caspian Makan, comments on her story in comments transcribed exclusively for altmuslim.com.

Launched in April 2009, Beauty and the East TV is an effort by American Muslim Samira Atash to build bridges between both Muslims and the West and between Muslims in America and elsewhere around the world.

Although many middle class Saudis believe that banning women from driving is a societal injustice, change and progress are often slow. Areej Khan’s new campaign, ‘We the Women’, is a creative strategy for engaging Saudis of all perspectives to foster a healthy debate on an issue that has been part of public discourse for decades.

What happens when you find a group of tragically victimized women who were abducted by sex traffickers? You rescue the one white American girl you were looking for and forget about the rest of them. That, basically, is the narrative achievement of the recent French action thriller, Taken, starring Liam Neeson.