From Iran today: March 16, 2010 Shiraz is ALIVE!!!! This is the BEST Chaharshanbeh Soori I have ever experienced! Our city was alive tonight with the sounds of music, laughter and fireworks! And even though it is illegal now to build bonfires on the roads, people were building fires in the joobes (open drains) and [...]
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March 16, 2010 Shiraz is ALIVE!!!
Posted in First Hand Accounts from Shiraz, tagged Chahar Shanbeh Soory, green movement, Iran, Shiraz on March 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
From Shiraz today: September 14, 2009 Back in the Saddle
Posted in First Hand Accounts from Iran, tagged Ahmadinejad, Basij, civil disobedience, Dictator, freedom, graffiti, hope, Iran, Iran update, Shiraz, small village, tolerance on September 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After a wonderful two-week hiatus driving around the country and abroad, we are back in the IRI [Islamic Republic of Iran], or should I say ICC (Iran Correctional Center). We could feel the difference between a free and unfree country right away. I, of course, entered my personal cell as soon as I neared the border – scarf and manteau.
Letter from Shiraz: 8/21/2009
Posted in First Hand Accounts from Iran, First Hand Accounts from Shiraz, tagged Ahmadinejad, Basij, big brother, civil disobedience, grafitti, green, green movement, Hejab, Islam, Mousavi, Muslim, police brutality, Secular Democracy, Separation of Church and State, Shiraz, streets, tazohorat on September 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The depths of the depravity of the actions necessary to maintain power against the will of a people are only just sinking in for me (viscerally). . . The people, who were out on the streets and have witnessed and been subjected to the violent aftermath of the elections, are totally fed up with the system and are looking for leadership to take them to the next level! That leadership does not exist in any tangible form yet.
July 30, 2009 Shiraz Update: One Student’s Story
Posted in First Hand Accounts from Shiraz, tagged 2009, Alive, brutality, civil disobedience, depression, freedom, police brutality, police intimidation, police state, prisoners, resistance, Shiraz, Shiraz Update, togetherness, university, Youth on August 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The students kept their spirits up by exchanging insults with the criminals and by joking all night. For the most part they were awake. The worst part, he said, was not knowing if anyone knew where they were and what was going to happen to them the next day.
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