2 posts tagged “iran”

Came across this in my RSS feeds today.  Kinda interesting.

Visit www.SpreadPersepolis.com
Persepolis 2.0 describes Iran’s post-election uprising and spreads the word about Iranians’ historic struggle against repression. Based on the graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi and edited by two Iranians living abroad.

I've also been keeping up to date on what's been going on inside Iran thanks to an excellent blog from the National Iranian American Council called niacINsight.

Finally, where would we be without the first rate "reporting" of the Daily Show?

Saw an interesting movie last night called The Color of Paradise.  It's an Iranian film directed by Majid Majidi about a blind boy whose father is ashamed of him.  Very touching, though not nearly as good as Majidi's earlier work Children of Heaven.  What I love about both films is their ability to humanize the plight of every day Iranians, using a child's perspective.  This is important stuff for people not familiar with Iranian culture or society to see.  As the hawkish rhetoric escalates, the conventional media and much of the political class in the US forgets about the ordinary people who live in Iran.  And they are the ones who ultimately suffer.