Friday, July 4, 2008 
The Mideast Youth Blog is an excellent look at politics, culture, and life in the Middle East, written by young Middle Easterners who live all over the world. The blog’s code of ethics shows that its writers are quite forward-thinking:
This all boils down to making a difference. We are here to help, motivate, encourage, and […]
Christopher de Bellaigue’s In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran is one of those books that I had on my reading list for what seemed like ages, always meaning to read it but never quite getting around to it. That is, until I borrowed it from a friend who had asked […]
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There’s a little uproar stateside over the story that ABC News broke yesterday. You’ve likely all heard it by now, but Bush is authorizing “new covert action” in Iran (which begs the question: What’s the current covert action, old chap?) From the story (emphasis mine):
President Bush has signed a “nonlethal presidential finding” that puts into […]
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Dr. Farhang Holakouee, Iranian-radio shrink extraordinaire, now has an online archive of past shows. If you grew up Iranian in Los Angeles, you either heard this guy so often that his show’s theme song is forever embedded in your mind, or, if you were really bad, your parents called in to ask him what to […]
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A follow-up to last week’s post about the new Iranian art exhibit in Washington, D.C.:
The U.S. Department of State posted a video of Secretary Rice’s visit to the opening of the exhibit at the Meridian International Center. Included are her brief remarks to reporters, as well as a clip of her quick walk through the […]
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A few weeks ago, South Park did a pretty funny spoof of the film “300,” pitting Persian club owners against lesbians (the YouTube clip got taken down when Viacom complained). Now, the animated sitcom “American Dad,” which is about a family in which the father is a right-wing CIA agent, has bestowed the Persian community […]
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More than thirty young Iranian artists’ work went on display today in Washington, D.C., as part of “Wishes and Dreams: Iran’s New Generation Emerges”. The exhibition is a joint project between the Tehran University Art Gallery and the Meridian International Center, where it will be on display until July 29th.
The show is already receiving international […]
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