Sheema Kalbasi (Persian: شیما کلباسی , born 20 November 1972 in Tehran, Iran) is an award winning poet, producer, critic, blogger, and human rights advocate.
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Kalbasi is the founder and president of Reel Content, a film production and publishing company. She is the director and the co-director of several literary projects including the Other Voices International project. She has published two books of poetry and two anthologies of poems. Her poems have been anthologized and translated into eighteen languages to date. Kalbasi's work is distinguished by her passionate defense of ethnic and religious minorities' rights. Her poetry have been compared to that of Bertolt Brecht and Lauro de Bosis. She has done voluntary teaching and tutoring of Baha'i refugee children as well as Iraqi Kurdish children, and disadvantaged Pakistani children in Pakistan. In 2009 she signed an open letter of apology posted to Iranian.com along with 266 other Iranian academics, writers, artists, journalists about the Persecution of Bahá'ís.[1]
Kalbasi has worked for the United Nations and the Center for non Afghan Refugees in Pakistan, and in Denmark. She currently resides in Washington, D.C. with her husband and children.
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Poetry