Friday, July 4, 2008 
After Iran’s president last week uttered his ludicrous statement about Iran not having any gays, here’s a Washington Post essay penned by a 25-year-old gay Iranian man, Amir, that strikes back. And here’s a NY Times article by Nazila Fathi, which essentially says the same thing as Amir’s essay - that gay culture, like many […]
Filed under: GAY & LESBIAN, VIDEOS
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Finally! A novel about Iranians in America that sounds like it might speak to/for young diaspora Iranians. No offense to all the memoirists and other fiction writers who are putting out quality work… I just think it’s time to work through and then set aside the collective post-revolutionary loss, anger, and sadness and figure out […]
Filed under: BOOKS
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I’m excited to announce the first Pars Arts-commissioned photography, featured in our homepage sidebar. Refresh the page, and each time you’ll see one of eight beautifully shot pictures of Persian artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The photos we had there before were almost all pulled from the web, so it’s great to have […]
Filed under: ART, PARS ARTS, PHOTOGRAPHY
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Sorry for the lack of posts this week - lots coming as soon as I have a free minute, I promise. In the meantime, check out this interview about Pars Arts with Global Voices. I really love the Global Voices blog and always look forward to seeing their updates in my feed reader. Many thanks […]
Filed under: PARS ARTS, PRESS
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Are you in New York? Go up to Columbia to see the madness as Ahmadinejad is giving a speech there today. Here’s an AP report of his arrival by Nahal Toosi. A friend at Columbia’s graduate school let me know they are covering the event really comprehensively today. If there are any Iranians in […]
Filed under: EVENTS, POLITICS
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Unfortunately, I missed Part 3 of this event, which was a live video conference with Khorshid Khanoom (aka Lady Sun), so if anyone has any intel on what happened, please leave a comment or shoot me a note: editorATparsartsDOTcom.
I’m on a shaky road, typing on someone else’s laptop, so I’ll write a longer post on […]
Filed under: COMMUNITY, CULTURE, INTERNET, IRANIAN MEDIA, IRANIANS ON THE INTERNET CONFERENCE
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Change of schedule - Iranian.com will be part 2 of the day, not Balatarin. Nazy Kaviani is going to read a statement by Persis Karim, who couldn’t make it today. Karim’s letter talks about Jahanshah Javid’s role in the making of the Iranian diaspora via his foresight regarding the role of the Internet.
Kaviani is now […]
Filed under: CULTURE, EVENTS, INTERNET, IRANIAN MEDIA, IRANIANS ON THE INTERNET CONFERENCE
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