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Iran: Toward an Understanding of Contemporary Events
July 7th, 2009
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.
Six Essential Books on Iran
July 6th, 2009
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.
Good Night in Tehran
July 3rd, 2009
Courtesy of the Daily Dish.
Tyranny Loses In Iran
July 2nd, 2009
Yet another article on recent developments in Iran. This one’s pretty good – written by Abbas Milani:
The Light (A Song for Iran)
July 1st, 2009
Outing Iran
June 29th, 2009
From Andrew Sullivan‘s the Daily Dish:
Even as the flow of footage, tweets, and reporting from Iran has started to ebb, the Dish wants to keep the spotlight on the Iranian people as much as possible in the coming weeks. So while continuing to post fresh political content, we want to start featuring as much cultural content as we can find – particularly as seen through the eyes of young Iranian bloggers. The more Americans get to know Iran’s rapidly-ascending millennials, the greater chance there is for melting stereotypes and finding commonalities, however incremental.
Read the full post here.
Faces of the dead and detained from the past 2 weeks in Iran
June 29th, 2009
We want to put a face to each of those hundreds – possibly thousands – killed or arrested since the Iranian election.
See the page here.
‘Iran’ by Pesare Bad (Bad Boy)
June 29th, 2009
A fantastic tune by Pesare Bad critising the current Iranian regime.
Video site dedicated to videos from Iran
June 26th, 2009
The Situation in Iran
June 17th, 2009
Before turning to a brief analysis of some possible scenarios in Iran going forward, let us begin by acknowledging none of us (really, it is true!) can genuinely know what exactly is happening in Iran now several days into this remarkable crisis.
An in-depth analysis of what is going on in Iran by Gregory Djerejian. I found this via Andrew Sullivan’s blog post.
According to Wikipedia: Gergory Djerrejian is an Armenian-American, attorney, hedge fund manager, and blogger/creator of the weblog,
