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An updated version of “Persepolis”, the graphics novel by Iranian-French artist Marjane Satrapi, illustrating the current uprising in Iran http://www.spreadpersepolis.com. This one is done by two of her fans.

Source: The Daily Dish

From ratiojuris.blogspot.com:

Inspired by Dean Jim Chen’s post, Tehran, June 15, 2009, I thought I would provide a list of books that enable one to better understand contemporary events, if only by placing them in socio-political context and historical perspective.

Read the full post with a comprehensive list of books on Iran, click here.

Even with news breaking daily in Iran, the first book I send myself and other readers back to has to be Roy Mottahedeh’s “The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran,” which was first published in 1985

Written by Laura Secor of the New Yorker. Read more here.

A new book by Neil Postman, comparing George Orwell’s version of the future in “1984” with Aldous Huxley’s version in “A brave new World”:

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism.

You can find more info alongside some great comic style drawings here.

Even though I haven’t read the book yet, it’s safe to say that the worst of both of those author’s visions may have come true!

This is an article about “Iran Awakening”, a book written by Shirin Ebadi published in 2006.

Seldom in the United States do politicians refer to literary works or memoirs when discussing foreign policy. Most politicians, like most Americans, think of literature as entertaining, spiritually edifying, even educational, to be read in the evening after work. But occasionally a book appears that politicians might do well to read during work.

Article written by Betty Jean Craige is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Georgia.

This is the title of a book I’m reading by an Iranian author called Abbas Milani who is based in the US.

The sub-title is “Rethinking Modernity in Iran” – the book deals with the history of Iran and how/why Iran and its people rejected modernism (I’m learning about this!) even though the Persian empire around 2000 years ago embraced modernism and set forth an example which was followed by the Greco-Roman thinkers.

I’ve only covered the first 2 chapters and I can say right now that I’ll need to re-read it to fully understand some of the passages.

Think I’ll write more on this in the near future.

Over and out.