Iranian of the Day

I Love her

what a great book - she is so talented - I love her!

Sara Sepidzadeh - All Things IRAN

LOL to you sir

"Since Azar NAfisi forwarded one of the most accurate translations by Dick Davis ..."

How does that make my point any less valid? She's thought to be a BRILLIANT Persian writer here in the West, so obviously they'd ask her to write a forward... That doesn't make this any less true --> "This was not enlightening... and her book was terrible... she spends the ENTIRE book gloating about herself and how she ~saved~ all the ~repressed~ young Iranians."

I haven't read the forward to Shahnameh... but does it go like... "myself and people like Ferdowsi are just ah-mah-zing ruh-tehrs. Also Ferdosi could improve based on some of my literary criticisms... if he were alive. enjoy the book"

Anonymoses / Nafisi: interesting you mention the Shahnameh ;0)

Since Azar NAfisi forwarded one of the most accurate translations by Dick Davis ...

//www.amazon.com/Shahnameh-Persian-Book-Kings-ebook/dp/B001RTC0Y2/ref=sr_1_1?

So ulike You Anonymoses jaan I suppose she knows what she is talking about ...

LOL 

For those of you who want to

For those of you who want to read: Go read the Shahnameh instead, or books from any of these legitimite Iranian authors who don't rely on Orientalist perceptions and denigration of others in order to get a point across:

//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Persian_poets_and_authors 

On this topic: This was not

On this topic: This was not enlightening... and her book was terrible... she spends the ENTIRE book gloating about herself and how she ~saved~ all the ~repressed~ young Iranians. 

Is everyone drinking cool-aid? Self-serving people (like Makhmalbaf etc) take sides of whatever movement of the day they think can carry them. They see halos above their own heads and think everyone else believes it too.

she's more qualified than reza pahlavi

this is a much better start! i doubt she would get involved.

I saw comprador

I saw comprador intellectuals and I couldn't go any further. This is not being frozen in time. It's being rotten timelessly.

More on Dabashi vs. Nafisi

"Rarely has an Oriental servant of a white-identified, imperial design managed to pack so many services to imperial hubris abroad and racist
elitism at home--all in one act. It is thus exceedingly important to
read Nafisi not just for her ideological services to the US imperial
designs globally, but, equally if not more important, for her
reactionary consequences inside the United States as well."

Of couse now that Dabashi has become "maghze-pesteie", he might have changed his opinions.

The whole article:

//weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/797/special.htm

Gee Hamid Dabashi must be Pissed off ;0)

Hee Hee ...

Hamid Dabashi: Iranians do not want to overthrow the Islamic Republic:

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJw7bGr6qvA

Real Lady..

excellent interview and all points right on the mark

Mehrdad

Lets hear it for all Iranian Woman!

About time we hear from our well versed Iranian woman!  Great job Azar.  We love it.  My girls are proud to see Iranian woman shine.  Speak up, Speak up, Speak up.   

Banafsheh

The new president will be a woman

What she says about women is true. I wish she had mentioned the dumb arrest of Shirin Ebadi's sister and the confiscation of her medal as threats to a strong Ebadi.

She is Great

What a pleasure to listen to. She is all class. Makes me proud as an Iranian.

What a classy eloquent and well informed lady!

I love her!!  I think I'm gonna go buy her book this weekend.

Thanks for posting Ghormeh