Wednesday, August 20, 2008 
See the New Yorker’s George Packer on propaganda machines and Iran. Reuters reports Ali Khamenei accuses Bush of hate campaign.
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Nazila Fathi of the New York Times writes about Iranian singer Mohsen Namjoo.
The first time I heard Namjoo, I was walking briskly down Bowery with my far-savvier friend’s headphones in my ear. “This sounds like Pearl Jam,” I said. It was the song “Toranj,” which doesn’t really sound a lot like Pearl Jam but […]
From Publisher’s Weekly:
Canadian author Shahir Shahidsaless is suing the Nobel Prize winner and Iranian human rights activist Shirin Ebadi. Shahidsaless says Ebadi went back on her word regarding getting a publisher for a book the two had coauthored after Ebadi was warned by her publisher and agent that the book’s publication might spoil sales of […]
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From NPR:
An Iranian-American scholar who had been jailed for months in Iran has been freed on bail.
Haleh Esfandiari is director of the Middle East program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
In December, she was on the way to the Tehran airport after visiting her mother, when she was seized by masked men […]
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Just accidentally discovered the redesigned Iranian.com, which looks really, really great. Very “web 2.0″ layout, blogs, soon-to-come RSS feeds, and even a more intuitive URL structure, which is fantastic. The couple of things I hope will be added as well are breadcrumb navigation, a sitemap, and the ability to comment without registering for the site, […]
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Two Kurdish journalists are sentenced to death in Iran. (Here’s a Reporters Without Borders petition and a Mideast Youth campaign to end censorship against Kurds)…
In a nod to the Middle Ages, Iran holds public hangings of “thugs”…
The U.S. House of Representatives hates Iranian nuclear development almost as much as genocide in Darfur…
NIAC convinces Hollywood […]
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When I lived in Egypt, I was always told that the way to spark a revolution was not through expanding democratic institutions, establishing grassroots political parties, or weakening Mubarak’s totalitarian regime. Rather, revolution would come with a reduction of wheat subsidies by the US, which would result in an increase to the price of bread. […]
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