Mahnaz Afkhami

Introduction to the Brazil Training of Trainers Institute

Women’s Learning Partnership
Women’s Learning Partnership president Mahnaz Afkhami welcomes participants to the final session of the national institute for women’s leadership and training of trainers held in Brazil in 2008.

Against All Odds: Women Partnering for Change in a Time of Crisis

VOA / By Julie Vahdati
A Woman’s World: Films About Muslim Women From Around The World
War, violence, extremism, fundamentalism, and restrictive legislation are but the most striking of the hurdles women must overcome as they strive for the most rudimentary of rights. The 25-minute documentary tells the stories of women activists from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East who, working in partnership, have developed and implemented strategies to overcome these challenges.

Against All Odds: Introduction

Women’s Learning Partnership
Against All Odds: Women Partnering for Change in a Time of Crisis. In this video the Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP) addresses the challenges that they face in today’s world and the value of networking in overcoming these challenges.

Partnership and Movement Building: Against All Odds

Women’s Learning Partnership
Women leaders talk about the building of a global, grassroots, women’s rights movement with Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP), based on a spirit of understanding and built around the felt needs of masses of women around the world.

Mahnaz Afkhami & Farah Ebrahimi: Iran

PBS “Destination America”
Sisters Mahnaz and Farah became independent women in America. Both later returned to Iran as adults, where they would be torn apart by Iranian politics during the reign of the shah. Mahnaz became a minister in the shah’s government and advocated for women’s rights, while Farah and her husband joined the cause of the revolution. Ultimately, Mahnaz and Farah both had to flee Iran in fear for their lives.

Cultural Boundaries and Cyber Spaces: Knowledge Divides

New York University’s Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
Technology and information are wealth and power. Women must gain equal access to technology and information, and become cultural producers themselves. Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP) speaks with Mahnaz Afkhami of WLP, Sociologist Alia Arasoughly, Noeleen Heyzer of UNIFEM, and Najat Rochdi of the Morocco Internet Society.

Prose, Politics and Power: Conversations with Muslim Women Leaders

Sisterhood Is Global Institute
Muslim women leaders discuss fiction in Muslim-majority societies as capable of creating a room for dialogue, for subversion and for empowerment. They reflect on the example of Scheherazade, and the richness and variety of the legacy in Islam.

Muslim Women’s Rights Leaders Speak: “Beijing and Beyond”

George Washington University
“Women’s rights are human rights”. Muslim women humanitarians have a history of networking and working to enrich the conditions of women worldwide. Sections of this film come from the world conference “Beijing and Beyond – Implementing the Platform in Muslim Societies” organized by the Sisterhood Is Global Institute.