Wednesday, August 20, 2008 
Bayramali
Paiom’s blog, Bayramali mostly revolves around nostalgia, poetry, culture, arts, “tanz”… he’s reading a poem/blog post about blogging. (I wonder if this is posted on his blog? Update: here it is.) - now it’s open for questions:
(I should note that a man just walked in the room with a Persian rug over his shoulder, which […]
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Haji Agha kicks it off by talking about the Internet’s effect on society, particularly the democratizing nature of it in Iran… this is the first Iranian blogger/web guru gathering of its kind here in the United States.
The first part of this program will be about bloggers, the second about Balatarin, and the third about Iranian.com. […]
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Nazy Kaviani is introducing me to everyone here - thanks, Nazy! Just chatted with Omid Memarian, who’s going to be making the introductions when this starts. He is a journalism grad student at Berkeley. Most of the stuff I’d read by him was very Iran-politics oriented so I sort of assumed that was what he’s […]
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Continuing the informal pre-talk chats… Check out Saat Sheni, a blog by a really sweet young Iranian woman who started the blog when she moved to isolating Los Angeles two years ago. It’s mostly about her daily life; I love that she has a Tracy Chapman video on the first page now.
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It’s 9:48… I’ve just spent 5 hours in a car and am drinking black tea as we’re all waiting for this to start… looks like they’re still setting up, still putting posters on the wall, and I’ve just met Haji Agha, who kindly told me that he’s linked to this coverage… hi, readers in Iran! […]
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Just saw this video series on Iranian.com and had to point to it. It’s a sort of video opus, called “I am Mohsen Namjoo.” There are five parts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. I’ve only watched bits of the first two; the second includes scenes of him taking a shower as he addresses the camera. […]
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The Washington Post recently created an award-winning video interview project called onBeing, and one of their subjects is Max Bigdeli, a 13-year-old half-Iranian with Down Syndrome. He appears with his mom, Ginger. Here’s Max’s video.
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