Take Action! More letters from Iran finally came through the Iranian censorship machine. Of note, hejab and manteau are words to describe the dress code for women when they are in public spaces in Iran. Praying for the safety of the brave writers: December 23-25, 2009 Christmas in Shiraz Season’s Greetings everyone! A family I [...]
Archive for December, 2009
From Shiraz today: Christmas in Shiraz
Posted in First Hand Accounts from Iran, First Hand Accounts from Shiraz, tagged censorship, Christmas, civil rights, Hejab, Iran, Iran update, Islamic dress code, Shiraz, Youth on December 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Shiraz today: “At that . . . the kids erupted”
Posted in First Hand Accounts from Iran, First Hand Accounts from Shiraz, tagged anxiety, elementary school, green movement, Internet Censorship, Iran, motherhood, Nokia on December 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Take Action! More letters from Shiraz today: December 16, 2009 More News The other day my sig other went to buy a cell phone piece. The store owner gave him a Nokia brand. The customer refused and said he would look at anything except for a Nokia as he was boycotting Nokia. One of the [...]
From Shiraz today: “No one wants to ‘upset’ anyone else
Posted in First Hand Accounts from Iran, First Hand Accounts from Shiraz, tagged filter-shekan, green movement, Hejab, male hejab, reporters sans fronteirs, Shiraz, ski on December 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Take Action! More letters from Shiraz received today: December 7 Pearl Harbor Day! It rained heavily in Shiraz on National Students’ Day and so the planned outdoor demonstrations for that day were cancelled as not too many people showed up. However, news cites like mowjcamp and autnews.es (from Amir Kabir University) reported that students gathered in [...]
From Shiraz today: “Ranga Rang” (colorful – people of Iran are all colors)
Posted in First Hand Accounts from Iran, First Hand Accounts from Shiraz, tagged family, green movement, Iran update, motherhood, Persian Gulf, Vacation on December 31, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Take Action! Finally worked out the technical difficulties with one of the Iranian writers sending letters. Here is the latest: December 6, 2009 A Weekend in Bushehr What a pleasant surprise! In order to dampen the fervor bound to surround National Students’ Day on December 7, the government announced Saturday – the day before Eid [...]
From the U.S.: “A letter to all the fundamentalists in the world”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged art, dance, freedom, Iran, iran election, poetry, self expression on December 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Take Action! This beautiful poem was written by a friend of mine today: She is beautiful, Her power is immense, She takes in life as it was meant to be, with gusto, She is beholden to none other than herself, Not her community’s customs, nor religion, Her religion is love, Does it matter if she [...]
What we can and must do!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged action, Ashura, hope, Iran, iran election, Iranian-American, tazohorat, Youth on December 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Take Action! Had dinner last night with my parents, who just came back from Iran. It was a wonderful, multi-generational dinner, with a couple of families. It was one of those rare events where parents and children shared their history, emotions, and planned ahead. I feel lucky to have been present. At first the older [...]
A delicious new discovery on Shabeh Yalda (Winter Solstice)
Posted in Emotional Impact - how we are surviving, tagged filter-shekan, hope, internet, Iran update, lavashak, pomegranite, shabeh yalda, sour cherry, winter solstice on December 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
While preparing for my Shabeh Yaldah party, I made what has to be, the world’s yummiest discovery. I cannot believe no one has thought of this before. Behold the anar (pomegranite) + lavashak (dried fruit, preferably albaloo) wrap. It would be perfected with some shaved raw pistachio, but I did not have any. Now that [...]
Time magazine: Ben over Neda
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ben Bernake, green movement, Iran, Neda Soltan, Person of the Year, Struggle, Time on December 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Aw common Time magazine, how you gonna do us like this? So, there was this huge effort to get the Iranian protesters to be Time magazine’s people of the year. One of the only rewards we have for standing up to brutal oppression is international encouragement or at the least acknowledgement. By not supporting the [...]
Saadi on gooze (passing gas) and the human condition
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Fart, Gooze, hope, Iran, Obama, Saadi, Shiraz on December 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A friend and Saadi scholar sent me the following translation today: “A noble man had some gas in his stomach. He could not hold it any longer, so he let it out. He said, ‘Friends, what just took place was out of my control; I did not mean to do it. Grant me this sin. It [...]
Fabulous summary of how Iranians “Bend it like Bekham”
Posted in Emotional Impact - how we are surviving on December 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This video comes from a great Persian blog, and explains the Persian relationship with authority and rules. It gets to the core of who we are and how we are functioning in the world. It is fabulous. See link here.
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