Posted in Personal, Social, politics on Monday, November 19, 2007 | 6 Comments »
My friends threw a great birthday party for me yesterday. The food, the cake, and the gifts were awesome. We drank so much that had to stay the night at my friend’s home.
I’m happy that I had my birthday yesterday, instead of today. Because I woke up today and saw the news about another [...]
Posted in Social, politics on Saturday, October 13, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I highly recommend everyone to read this thoughtful post by Hamid Dabashi*, an Iranian professor at Columbia University, about Bollinger’s racist remarks and the politics around Ahmadinejad’s visit to Columbia University. Best article I’ve read about the issue so far:
Of banality and burden
Also, the following article written by an Iranian queer woman about Ahmadinejad’s infamous [...]
Posted in Social on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I just heard that Haleh Esfandiary is released on a $300,000 bail, after forced TV confessions and three months and a half of solitary confinement . I hope Kian Tajbakhsh will be released soon as well.
Posted in Social on Sunday, August 19, 2007 | 4 Comments »
This is a quick and unprofessional translation of what Said Mortazavi, Tehran’s Chief Prosecutor (who is responsible for many arrests, tortures, and deaths of political and women’s activists in Tehran, including the death of Zahra Kazemi and Akbar Mohammadi) has told the families of three imprisoned Amir Kabir University students, who have been tortured in [...]
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