Archive - Feb 2012

Pogrom

Action speaks louder than a thousand words >>>

Ebrahim Younesi, translating no more

A great Iranian translator has died. >>>

Lifting the Pardeh on Revolutionary Poster Art

A post about poster art disseminated during the 1979 Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War. >>>

دوبله سری جدید یکی از پربیننده ترین برنامه های تلویزیون بی بی سی آغاز شد

"دکتر هو" یکی از پر بیننده ترین برنامه های تلویزیون بی بی سی در بریتانیا است که تا کنون چندین مجموعه آن بخش شده است >>>

Free Rahnavard, Mousavi, and Karroubi

Supreme Leader Directly Responsible for Illegal Detentions of Opposition Leaders >>>

نشست استکهلم

گردهم‌آیی دو روزه‌ای که به دعوت مرکز اولاف پالمه در روزهای ۴ و ۵ فوریه در حومه استکهلم برگزار شد به بحث‌های زیادی در بین اپوزیسیون و محافل ایرانی آن دامن زده است. این جلسه به صورت ناعلنی برگزار شده و از فهرست دعوت شدگان یا شرکت کنندگان در آن یا گفتگوهای آن گزارش مستند و رسمی منتشر نشده است>>>

Blunt Instrument

Supporters of the policy assume that there is a positive relationship between broad economic sanctions and democratization. The policymakers responsible for these measures either are ignorant of or are simply ignoring the empirical evidence: broad sanctions—total financial and trade embargoes—do not have a good track record of changing target countries’ policies or of pushing them toward democracy>>>

Patriot of Persia

Mohammad Mossadegh — Iran’s charismatic Prime Minister—and the coup that brought him down in 1953 stand at the center of modern Iranian history. British journalist and writer, Christopher de Bellaigue, has written a new book on this remarkable figure titled "Patriot of Persia", which counts as the first real biography of Mossadegh in English. De Bellaigue, who is married to an Iranian artist and who has lived in Iran, has written about the country and the wider Middle East >>>

The World is Watching

Movies by Iranian directors who have the chance to work abroad (like Marjan Satrapi or Ali Samadi Ahadi) are extraordinary masterpieces, carrying a very unique handwriting of their directors. And they breath the spirit of freedom and of unlimited creativity. But because they are produced in the west, they attract much less media attention. The media and critics in the west too often judge a movie more by the cirumstances under which it has been produced, and therefore grant a movie that has been produced inside the country an extra bonus for “braveness”>>>