Friday, July 4, 2008 
Check out this Marjane Satrapi Q&A. Persepolis comes out here in the US on December 25. Usually these short Q&As are really boring, but this one? No, definitely not boring:
Are you suggesting that veiling and unveiling women are equally reductive? I disagree. We have to look at ourselves here also. Why do all the […]
Iranian-American Paris Marashi is one of the few live bloggers at the PopTech conference. Check out her posts on her blog and at Sounds Iranian.
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Farnam Bidgoli wrote the Iran’s Mojaz Culture post about Iranian film and TV a couple of weeks ago, and today, the blog Talking Points Memo includes an AP story about a television show she mentioned in that post, Zero Degree Turn (”Madar Sefr Darejeh” in her post).
Also check out this earlier WSJ article about the […]
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From AFP, the Iranian government is considering “a proposal to knock three zeros off its national currency to increase economic confidence and reduce the number of banknotes, the central bank governor said on Tuesday.”
I’m no economist, but revaluing currency sounds like a pretty massive deal. Anyone have any insights on this issue that can explain […]
The Columbus Dispatch last week printed a controversial editorial cartoon depicting Iran as a sewer and Iranians as an infestation of cockroaches.
Niki Akhavan wrote the Dispatch to complain of what she calls an “incitement to hatred” and received a canned response from the paper, reprinted here:
Dear sir or madame:
Thank you for writing to The Dispatch.
You […]
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From Global Voices, Hamid Tehrani has a good roundup about the death of flamingos in Iran and other environmental issues being discussed in the Iranian blogosphere.
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From the New York Times:
An Iranian-American academic imprisoned for months and accused of trying to create a ‘’soft revolution” in Iran was permitted to leave the country and rejoin her family, her lawyer and family said Monday.
Haleh Esfandiari, 67, who was released on bail in August, picked up her passport and flew late Sunday […]
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