The Edge of Meaning |سفر معنا|

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• چگونه از جنگ‌در تهران، بیرون آمدم/ How Living Through the War in Tehran Changed Me

  ⁨۱۶ مرداد ۱۴۰۵⁩ · ⁨۵۸ دقیقه⁩

  In this two-part episode of The Edge of Meaning | Safar-e Ma’na, Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh speaks with Donya Vatani, a Tehran-based psychologist and spiritual practitioner, about what it means to live through war—not only physically, but emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually. Recorded in June 2026, shortly after the ceasefire that ended the 40-day Iran War, the conversation explores life in Tehran during war, the aftermath of the January 2026 popular uprising, and the collective trauma shaping everyday life in Iran. Donya reflects on growing up in a politically engaged family and among a generation raised by women deeply involved in Iran’s women’s movement. She speaks about their courage and the emotional costs carried by children who grew up alongside political struggle, imprisonment, sacrifice, and uncertainty. As a psychologist, Donya describes her journey toward authenticity, bodily autonomy, compassion, and what she calls “feminine energy”—a human capacity for emotional presence, intuition, dialogue, tenderness, and connection. Mahboubeh and Donya explore whether societies shaped by patriarchy, authoritarianism, political violence, capitalism, and constant urgency disconnect people from these capacities—and whether feminist movements have sometimes been pushed toward wounded forms of power: relentless productivity, confrontation, burnout, and emotional disconnection. Donya shares her firsthand experience of living through war in Tehran: hearing explosions, following frightening news, preparing for shortages, and facing the question of whether to leave the city. She chose to stay. Remaining in Tehran gradually became an experience of belonging and agency. When ordinary people have little control over military and political decisions, Donya suggests that agency can survive through small acts of care: checking on others, creating spaces where women can grieve together, practicing yoga and meditation, sharing meals, protecting children from traumatic news, and helping people regulate fear. Mahboubeh raises a difficult question: Can spirituality become spiritual bypassing? Can meditation, mindfulness, love, and self-care become ways of avoiding injustice or political responsibility? Donya acknowledges this danger, while arguing that genuine contemplative practice can help people remain embodied, compassionate, and capable of responding with wisdom rather than panic or despair. Together, Mahboubeh and Donya develop a broader understanding of agency—one that includes protest and civic action, but also presence, witnessing, emotional regulation, care, and protecting one’s humanity in times of violence. Ultimately, the conversation becomes a meditation on belonging and on what resilience means when survival depends not only on physical safety, but on preserving our capacity to love, connect, grieve, witness, imagine, and remain fully alive. About The Edge of Meaning | Safar-e Ma’na The Edge of Meaning | Safar-e Ma’na is a bilingual public media and narrative dialogue project based in the United States, created and hosted by Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh, an Iranian women’s rights activist, journalist, filmmaker, and contemplative dialogue facilitator. Through contemplative, trauma-informed conversations, the project documents moral imagination, civil society, and lived experience in contexts of war, displacement, repression, and social crisis. Host: Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh Guest: Donya Vatani – Psychologist & Spiritual Practitioner Series: The Edge of Meaning | Safar-e Ma’na Format: Two-Part Conversation Recorded: Tehran & San Francisco | June 2026 #Iran #IranWar #Tehran #IranianWomen #CollectiveTrauma #Psychology #Spirituality #SpiritualFeminism #Feminism #WomenRights #Resilience #Belonging #TraumaHealing #ContemplativeDialogue #TheEdgeOfMeaning #SafareMana #DonyaVatani #MahboubehAbbasgholizadeh

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  وقت کار میدانی و امدادی است

  ⁨۱۶ تیر ۱۴۰۵⁩ · ⁨۱ ساعت و ۱۴ دقیقه⁩

  Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh ( محبوبه عباسقلی زاده) interviews Khadijeh Moghadam (خدیجه مقدم) in this episode of Safar-e Ma’na (The Journey of Meaning). Khadijeh Moghadam is one of the pioneers of Iran’s women’s movement, a long-time civil society activist, and a leading advocate of grassroots organizing and women’s empowerment. In this conversation, she reflects on more than five decades of civic engagement. ‏Our conversation begins with the years leading up to the 1979 Iranian Revolution and follows her journey through labor strikes, the Iran–Iraq War, the rise of civil society organizations, women’s empowerment initiatives, environmental activism, the women’s movement, the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising, and finally to today’s Iran in the aftermath of the Iran–Israel–U.S. war. This episode is more than a historical account. It is an exploration of a deeper question: How does one remain engaged, preserve hope, and continue creating meaning through revolution, repression, war, and profound social change? Drawing on a lifetime of experience, Khadijeh Moghadam reflects on organizing workers before the revolution, building grassroots organizations, supporting women through community-based initiatives, environmental advocacy, the One Million Signatures Campaign, intergenerational dialogue, and the role of civil society during times of crisis. She also shares her thoughts on rebuilding social trust, responding to war through community care, and sustaining human agency even under the most difficult circumstances. At a moment when Iranian society is confronting the consequences of war, political repression, and overlapping social crises, this conversation invites us to rethink the meaning of civic responsibility, solidarity, resilience, and hope. In this episode: * Growing up and becoming a social activist * Labor strikes and the 1979 Iranian Revolution * War, civil society, and community organizing * Women’s empowerment and grassroots activism * The Woman, Life, Freedom movement and a new generation * Civil society after the Iran–Israel–U.S. war * Meaning, hope, aging, and a lifetime of activism About the podcast Safar-e Ma’na (The Journey of Meaning) is hosted by Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh—journalist, women’s rights activist, filmmaker, and founder of the podcast. Through conversations with activists, scholars, artists, and public intellectuals, the series explores how people find meaning while navigating political upheaval, exile, social transformation, personal loss, and collective hope. Rather than focusing only on political events, Safar-e Ma’na asks a deeper question: How do we continue living, acting, and creating meaning in times of uncertainty? If you found this conversation meaningful, please subscribe to the channel, share this episode, and leave your thoughts in the comments. #SafarEMana #JourneyOfMeaning #KhadijehMoghadam #Iran #CivilSociety #WomensMovement #WomanLifeFreedom #GrassrootsActivism #Meaning #Podcast

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• کنشگری مدنی در روزگار جنگ

  ⁨۲۳ خرداد ۱۴۰۵⁩ · ⁨۱ ساعت و ۱۹ دقیقه⁩

  In this episode of Safar-e Ma’na | The Edge of Meaning, Iranian-American journalist, dialogue facilitator, and founder of Inner Rain Academy, خMahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh, speaks with Iranian women’s movement activist and researcher Mansoureh Shojaee about War in Iran, civil society, women’s movements, collective grief, democratic struggle, and the fragile work of sustaining hope in times of violence. This long-form conversation explores the history of the Iranian women’s movement, civic organizing, and the evolving role of civil society in the aftermath of political upheaval, repression, and war. Through personal memories and political reflection, Mansoureh Shojaee traces her journey from student activism and feminist organizing to decades of engagement with women’s rights, cultural institutions, and grassroots movements in Iran. The discussion then moves into the present: the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, the December uprising, media responsibility, populism, war, and the future of Iranian civil society. Mansoureh Shojaee reflects on mutual aid, care, community support, and the need to strengthen civic networks in times of repression, economic hardship, uncertainty, and collective trauma. At the center of the conversation is a simple but urgent question: How can a society continue to imagine freedom, justice, dignity, and repair when war, repression, poverty, and exile have exhausted its body? Mansoureh argues that hope is not optimism. Hope is effort. Hope emerges through action, participation, solidarity, and the continued willingness to work toward freedom even when outcomes remain uncertain. Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh is a narrative journalist, dialogue facilitator, and founder of Inner Rain Academy. She is also a researcher and analyst of gender issues, as well as a mentor and mindfulness educator for communities affected by crisis. She is the creator and host of Safar-e Ma’na (The Edge of Meaning), a bilingual platform for contemplative conversations on lived experience, social transformation, and the search for meaning in times of crisis, exile, war, and change. Through in-depth dialogue and reflective storytelling, her work explores memory, embodiment, ethics, resilience, and the human dimensions of social and political life. محبوبه عباسقلی‌زاده، اکو فمنیست معنا گرا، روزنامه‌نگار روایی، و بنیان‌گذار آکادمی باران است. او همچنین پژوهشگر، تحلیلگر و آموزشگر مسائل جنسیت برای جوامع درگیر بحران است او پدیدآورنده و میزبان برنامه پژوهشی «سفر معنا» است؛ بستری دوزبانه برای گفت‌وگوهای تأملی درباره تجربه زیسته، دگرگونی اجتماعی و جست‌وجوی معنا در روزگار بحران، تبعید، جنگ و تغییر کار او از طریق گفت‌وگوهای عمیق و روایت‌گری تأملی، به کاوش در حافظه، بدن، اخلاق، تاب‌آوری و ابعاد انسانی زندگی اجتماعی و سیاسی است.

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• تعلق و جنگ; روایت پرستو فروهر

  ⁨۱۷ اردیبهشت ۱۴۰۵⁩ · ⁨۱ ساعت و ۹ دقیقه⁩

  این قسمت از پادکست «سفر معنا | The Edge of Meaning» گفتگویی است با پرستو فروهر؛ هنرمند تجسمی و کنشگر دادخواهی، درباره تجربه زیسته جنگ، مهاجرت، سوگ، مسئولیت، و معنای ایرانی بودن در زمانه‌ای پر از خشونت و دوپارگی. این گفتگو فراتر از تحلیل سیاسی، تلاشی است برای تأمل بر نسبت انسان، حافظه، زیبایی، رنج، و امکان مراقبت و گفت‌وگو در دل بحران. محبوبه عباسقلی‌زاده و پرستو فروهر در این اپیزود از هویت، دادخواهی، زن‌زندگی‌آزادی، اخلاقِ شاهد بودن، و حفظ انسانیت در زمانه ویرانی سخن می‌گویند Recorded during the escalating war tensions between Iran, Israel, and the United States, this episode of Safar-e Ma’na | The Journey of Meaning brings together Iranian–German internationally acclaimed visual artist, artist-practitioner, and justice-seeking activist Parastou Forouhar with Iranian–American journalist and meaning-oriented dialogue facilitator Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh. This is not a conversation about geopolitical analysis alone. It is a reflective dialogue on belonging, war, memory, responsibility, migration, grief, justice-seeking, and the fragile possibility of care and beauty in catastrophic times. Drawing from decades of artistic practice, political engagement, and personal loss following the political assassination of her parents in Iran, Forouhar reflects on multiple and intertwined identities: artist, migrant, mother, activist, witness, and Iranian woman. Together, the conversation explores: — Iranian identity and belonging during war — the ethics of witnessing and survivor’s responsibility — protest and care — beauty and violence — grief, shame, and political narration — migration and in-betweenness — authoritarianism and eliminationist politics — Woman, Life, Freedom — dialogue in polarized times — and the responsibility of preserving humanity amid destruction Rather than reproducing simplified binaries, this episode opens a space for complexity, contradiction, reflection, and human vulnerability. Safar-e Ma’na | The Journey of Meaning is a bilingual long-form podcast exploring meaning-making across embodiment, memory, ethics, art, crisis, and lived experience. Guest: Parastou Forouhar Host: Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh is an Iranian–American journalist, ecofeminist thinker, mindfulness mentor, meaning-oriented researcher, and facilitator of reflective dialogue. She is the founder of Inner Rain Academy, a platform exploring meaning-making across embodiment, memory, ethics, women’s lived experience, and social transformation. Her work brings together contemplative inquiry, public dialogue, long-form conversation, and reflective media to explore human experience in contexts of crisis, exile, war, grief, and transformation. #ParastouForouhar #SafareMana #MahboubehAbbasgholizadeh #WomanLifeFreedom #Iran #Podcast #WarAndBelonging #JusticeSeeking #Diaspora #MeaningMaking #Embodiment #PoliticalArt #IranianWomen #ReflectiveDialogue #WarAndMemory

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• اخلاق وظیفه گرا در سیاست جنگ

  ⁨۸ فروردین ۱۴۰۵⁩ · ⁨۳۹ دقیقه⁩

  این اپیزود از پادکست «سفر معنا»، محبوبه عباسقلی‌زاده در همراهی با مهدیه گلرو، کنشگر سیاسی مقیم سوئد، و علاقه مند به مکتب کانتی «اخلاق وظیفه گرا» ؛ بر تنش میان اخلاق و سیاست؛ درنگ می‌کند. همچنین، نقد «آرزو‌فروشی» و «انسان‌زدایی» در فرهنگ پوپولیسم جنگ طلب، از محورهای دیگر این بحث است.

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• چگونه سوگ انقلابی به رقص سوماتیک بدل شد

  ⁨۴ فروردین ۱۴۰۵⁩ · ⁨۱۹ دقیقه⁩

  Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh discusses the emergence of a somatic dance of grief among Iranian mothers after the January 2026 protests. محبوبه عباسقلی زاده در پادکست سفر معنا شرح می دهد که چگونه سوگ انقلابی به رقص سوماتیک بدل شد Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh is an ecofeminist writer, journalist, soul coach, and somatic mindfulness meditation teacher. She is the founder of Inner Rain Academy, a space for embodied learning, mindfulness, and collective healing. https://www.innerrain.... The reflection takes place within the historical context of the January 2026 Iranian protests, one of the most dramatic and violent periods in contemporary Iranian history. On January 7 and 8, 2026, widespread protests erupted across many cities in Iran. Demonstrations were met with an extremely violent crackdown by security forces of the Islamic Republic. Reports from activists, journalists, and human rights observers described mass shootings, large-scale arrests, and widespread repression of protesters. In many accounts circulating among Iranian civil society and diaspora communities, the death toll from the crackdown was described as reaching tens of thousands. The events of those days became a defining moment in the long history of protest movements in Iran, where mourning and remembrance have often become powerful forms of political expression. Shortly after these events, the regional situation escalated further. In February 2026, tensions between the Islamic Republic of Iran, the United States, and Israel escalated into direct military confrontation widely described in international media as the 2026 Iran War. The conflict began with coordinated strikes on Iranian targets and quickly developed into a broader regional crisis involving missile exchanges, military escalation, and rising geopolitical tensions across the Middle East. Against this dramatic historical backdrop of repression, war, and uncertainty, Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh reflects on a phenomenon that began to emerge among the families of victims—particularly among mothers who lost their children during protests. In cemeteries, memorial gatherings, and public spaces, mourning began to take on new embodied forms. Through what can be understood as a somatic dance of grief, these mothers transformed mourning into a powerful collective language of resistance. The body, in this context, becomes more than a site of pain. Movement, gesture, and collective presence create a space in which grief is expressed not only emotionally but physically. Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh explores how grief can move beyond private sorrow and become a shared, embodied expression of protest. The talk also situates these emerging practices within a broader cultural and historical tradition in Iranian society. Mourning rituals have long played an important role in collective memory—from religious commemorations such as Ashura to modern memorial gatherings for victims of political violence. Iranian women, in particular, have repeatedly transformed mourning into acts of resistance, remembrance, and solidarity. Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh examines how the body carries memory, trauma, and political meaning. The phenomenon of mourning through movement reveals how collective grief can become a language through which communities confront violence and reclaim dignity. The somatic dance of grief performed by Iranian mothers is therefore not only an expression of loss. It is also an act of remembrance, a gesture of solidarity, and a form of embodied testimony against repression. In moments when speech becomes dangerous or silence is imposed, the body itself can become a site of memory and resistance. Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh invites viewers to reflect on the relationship between grief, embodiment, and political transformation. The ritual gestures of mourning carried by these mothers illuminate how collective trauma can give rise to new forms of feminist resistance and embodied protest.

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