A view of Sheikh Zayed Road - a major highway in Dubai that has been the site of rapid urban development. (Image credit: Al Miller) Passing remarks, it turns out, can make a lasting impression. I had come to appreciate such remarks while conducting my dissertation fieldwork in Dubai during the course of 2010. That year saw me regularly engage ... Continue reading »
As Iran gears up for a presidential election in June, the conditions in which prisoners of conscience are held in some of the country's most notorious prisons have worsened. Below are some of the activists, students, journalists, women's rights campaigners, lawyers, artists, former politicians and members of Iran's religious and ethnic minorities w ... Continue reading »
In this video-blog Azar Majedi talks about secularism as a necessary political condition for ensuring freedom in the society, particularly for as it regards women's freedom and rights. She refers to recent campaign by the state reformists activists and leaders to defend Islamic state, be it a reformed one, and opposing secularism in Iran. The focus ... Continue reading »
They are offering to arm anyone willing to fight alongside the FSA. Major targets would include the Air Force Intelligence building and Dahret abn Abbo in northern Aleppo. http://shabab.ayyam.org/en/story/breaking-rebel-faction-declares-general-mobilization-aleppo-ahead-large-scale-battle AT LEAST 15 NEW REBEL UNITS CREATED IN LAST THREE DAYS. ... Continue reading »
The presidential candidates for a four-year presidency in Iran will be soon vetted for qualifications by the Guardian Council. The body is charged, among others, to approve the mandatory of any candidate for any election based on loyalty to the regime and its cult of Islam. Like all totalitarian regimes, under the Islamic regime, laws are able to v ... Continue reading »
YouTube, owned by corporate giant Google, has banned our video discussing the corporate ownership of patents on human genes. This video, which featured nothing more than myself and Robert Scott Bell criticizing Angelina Jolie for hyping up BRCA breast cancer gene tests and being part of the trillion-dollar industry of "human genomics" apparently ra ... Continue reading »
Is this part of our Iranian culture? Is it anti-Iranian to say that this picture is degrading women and downright revolting? DEATH TO THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC The day of reckoning is drawing nearer ... Continue reading »
On the last available day, ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani arrived at the ministry of the interior to register himself as a presidential candidate. Rafsanjani was the Islamic republic’s fourth president, from 1989 to 1997, and is now once again standing as a ‘reformist’. In reality he is the candidate of capitalism and probably still one of the riches ... Continue reading »
Mohammad Yazdi, a clerical member of Iran’s Council of Guardians, a constitutional body responsible for ensuring that legislation adheres to Iran’s Constitution, as interpreted by Iran’s religious scholars and Islamic law, and for vetting presidential candidates has announced that Iranian laws “do not allow women to become presidents”.
It also st ... Continue reading »
Intelligent and confident, Parisa, 23, is from what could be loosely termed a middle-class family and has a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Islamic Azad University.
On weekends, she sells her body for profit on the streets of North Tehran.
“I’m a lot of fun. My time is very valuable,” says Parisa, a diminutive computer technician ... Continue reading »
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