The Edge of Meaning |سفر معنا|

Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh
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Safar-e Ma’na | سفر معناThe Edge of Meaning is a bilingual long-form podcast hosted by Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh محبوبه عباسقلی زاده, a narrative journalist, dialogue facilitator, and director of Inner Rain Academy whose work explores meaning-making, lived experience, embodiment, and ethical complexity in times of crisis. Produced by Inner Rain Academy and Zanan TV, the podcast features reflective conversations with artists, thinkers, and cultural voices from Iran and the diaspora. Video versions of the conversations are available on the Zanan TV YouTube channel.

Episodes

  1. تعلق و جنگ; روایت پرستو فروهر

    3D AGO

    تعلق و جنگ; روایت پرستو فروهر

    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

    1h 9m
  2. اخلاق وظیفه گرا در سیاست جنگ؛ درنگ های مهدیه گلرو

    MAR 28

    اخلاق وظیفه گرا در سیاست جنگ؛ درنگ های مهدیه گلرو

    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.

    39 min
  3. چگونه سوگ انقلابی به رقص سوماتیک بدل شد

    MAR 24

    چگونه سوگ انقلابی به رقص سوماتیک بدل شد

    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.

    19 min
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Safar-e Ma’na | سفر معناThe Edge of Meaning is a bilingual long-form podcast hosted by Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh محبوبه عباسقلی زاده, a narrative journalist, dialogue facilitator, and director of Inner Rain Academy whose work explores meaning-making, lived experience, embodiment, and ethical complexity in times of crisis. Produced by Inner Rain Academy and Zanan TV, the podcast features reflective conversations with artists, thinkers, and cultural voices from Iran and the diaspora. Video versions of the conversations are available on the Zanan TV YouTube channel.

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