Kamangir (Archer)

Cartoon by Nikahand Kowsar [Persian].

Starting last month, I have been working on a project which I have titled “KiBeKi“, or “What’s up?” in English. The project aims at developing a software robot which would crawl inside the Persian blogosphere in order to generate the connectivity graph of this dynamic place as well as to extract other information.
At this moment, [...]

Do you think there is any chance for any professional news source to mistake a photoshopped image for a real one? Well, if it is Press TV, the answer is yes.
To see how the “Nuclear Energy is our Definite Right” on the left was changed to “Iran Loves Jews” on the right, in a satirical [...]

There is something in Benazir Bhutto’s assassination that hurts me. It is not the fact that she was relatively young; it is rather about the way she and many others like her are being killed everyday. What makes me terrified is the popularity this weapon is gaining.
I am a fan of Empire Earth and I [...]

If I want to describe Milan in three words, I’ll call it the city of graffiti, cigarettes, and warm people.
When I went past the exit doors of Milan’s Malpenso Airport, the first thing that came to my mind was, “Why are we living in the frozen Winnipeg?” The temperature was above zero and there was [...]

Lisa Goldman may be sentenced to jail for her trip to Lebanon on her Canadian passport (more on her blog).

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I am just back from a long trip to Europe. I had the marvelous opportunity of meeting two good pen-friends of years and I am very happy about it. And also, I attended a fantastic conference about blogging and had the chance to talk to a few other bloggers and activists and experts and this [...]

Do you remember Makwan Moloudzadeh, who was to be executed for a homosexual act which he allegedly committed when he was 13 (see: Boy to be executed for Underage Homosexual Act, Take Ation!)? He was executed recently despite the controversy surrounding the witnesses against him (Reuters).

Police Brutality in Birjand, Iran, during the Sharia crackdown. This is what the girl is saying,
Wait a second! Lady Policewoman! … [Screaming] Let me go! [Screaming] People! Help! Help me!…
It is not clear what happens to the girl at the end. The consequences of detention by the Sharia police can be quite dangerous, see: Medical [...]

The women’s rights’ activist Jelveh Javaheri (جلوه جواهری) was arrested today by the Revolutionary Courts. She was summoned to the court today and was arrested on charges of disrupting the public opinion, anti-regime propaganda, and spreading false news. Javaheri is a sociology graduate student and has been active in women rights’ groups for a long [...]