On Mother's Day morning, like people around the world, I reflected on my relationship with my mother. She is so incredibly significant to me that it's difficult to capture it in words. But I tried to do so in a Facebook post:

"She's always there for me, even when...

I woke up at dawn today and my first thought was of Drs. Kamiar and Arash Alaei winning the first Elizabeth Taylor Human Rights Award at the International AIDS 2012 conference in Washington, D.C. on July 22. I was beckoned by light streaming through an...

I started this 7 Causes in 7 Days blog series last week to mark 7 months that Josh, Shane, and Sarah have been freed from being held hostage in an Iranian prison. The number 7 is significant in many cultures around the world, often considered lucky. My birthday falls on...

The first political prisoner campaign I got involved in after Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer were released on September 21, 2011, was the Free Saeed Malekpour campaign.

Saeed is a 36 year old Canadian permanent resident, who was arrested in Iran in October 2008, a few days after he...

Nelson Mandela's wise words capture what felt so impossible to explain over the past few years; what inspired my dedication to fight for freedom for my dear friends, Josh Fattal, Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd. When the three Americans were freed from a two-year imprisonment in Iran, after being arrested...

When I was asked by the Huffington Post if I wanted to write a blog post responding to "an article about a woman in Muslim dress photographed holding a bra," I thought "Really? There's an article about that?" I was told that the story had created a lot of buzz...

Reprinted with permission from The Star, Kenya and allAfrica.com

I'm awake at dawn as I was every day during my life in Loodariak, a Maasai community in the Great Rift Valley, 60 kilometers southeast of Nairobi, Kenya. I have never felt more connected to my environment...

Today Josh and Shane's trial in Iran began in a court closed to the public. For the last week family, friends, and colleagues have been testifying to Shane and Josh's humanitarian deeds and good records at www.blog.freethehikers.org. Here are some excerpts from those posts.

"I testify that my...