Thursday, June 25, 2009
Monday, June 22, 2009
"Why we protest"
Elegant slideshow, anonymous post, from "Why We Protest: Iran" http://bit.ly/11b4tr
Found it via Twitter@TimOBrienNYT
Sunday, June 21, 2009
A reaction on Neda
Many people have shared their feelings about the killed Iranian woman Neda. A British blogger, Jenny, wrote the following as part of a longer post:
- Saturday night was an extraordinarily harrowing and humbling experience. I followed the events though the hashtag and regular ReTweets from @debaucherydean who did a great job filtering out some of the noise, and at one stage organised a phone campaign to the Foreign Office to ensure their Tehran embassy was open to the injured. At one point a video was posted showing the aftermath from the shooting of a young woman. She was being carried by a group of protesters and they laid her on the road as her father ran over. At first you could see no sign of a wound. As she lay their her eyes glazed and then blood started to seep out all over her face, from her eyes, from her nose, from her mouth… and then she died. It was the most stark and upsetting video I have ever seen and to know It had happened just moments earlier made it all the more real. This video brought home the plight of the Iranian protesters, with heavy heavy thud. We later found out that her name was Neda. Her face with live with me for a long time. I’m not sure whether to post the link to the video. If anyone wishes to see it then I guess you can track it down.
Other tweets that night were for information between protesters. Advice was given as to how to be protected from chemical attack. Information was posted as to which foreign embassies were taking in the injured. We also say great compassion from the protesters. One picture showing a fallen riot police motorcyclist being shielded by a protester was particularly humbling.
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JENNY ends by also providing some info on Twitter:
- A Twitter week from the mundane to the vital. Twitter Terms Explained :
Tweet = a short message under 140 characters, can contain links to pictures or videos
@username = your twitterer username
Followers = the people / feeds that you follow and follow you
RT or ReTweet = a tweet passed on
Hashtag or #something = a webpage automatically created to elicit shared real time contributions on a topic
Posted by Jenny Harvey at 22:02 Source: http://jenny-vs-theworld.bl...
- Saturday night was an extraordinarily harrowing and humbling experience. I followed the events though the hashtag and regular ReTweets from @debaucherydean who did a great job filtering out some of the noise, and at one stage organised a phone campaign to the Foreign Office to ensure their Tehran embassy was open to the injured. At one point a video was posted showing the aftermath from the shooting of a young woman. She was being carried by a group of protesters and they laid her on the road as her father ran over. At first you could see no sign of a wound. As she lay their her eyes glazed and then blood started to seep out all over her face, from her eyes, from her nose, from her mouth… and then she died. It was the most stark and upsetting video I have ever seen and to know It had happened just moments earlier made it all the more real. This video brought home the plight of the Iranian protesters, with heavy heavy thud. We later found out that her name was Neda. Her face with live with me for a long time. I’m not sure whether to post the link to the video. If anyone wishes to see it then I guess you can track it down.
Other tweets that night were for information between protesters. Advice was given as to how to be protected from chemical attack. Information was posted as to which foreign embassies were taking in the injured. We also say great compassion from the protesters. One picture showing a fallen riot police motorcyclist being shielded by a protester was particularly humbling.
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JENNY ends by also providing some info on Twitter:
- A Twitter week from the mundane to the vital. Twitter Terms Explained :
Tweet = a short message under 140 characters, can contain links to pictures or videos
@username = your twitterer username
Followers = the people / feeds that you follow and follow you
RT or ReTweet = a tweet passed on
Hashtag or #something = a webpage automatically created to elicit shared real time contributions on a topic
Posted by Jenny Harvey at 22:02 Source: http://jenny-vs-theworld.bl...
Neda - a victim of brutal action in Tehran
Courtesy: arta07
http://twitpic.com/817ft
According to Iranian sources via Twitter and elsewhere, Neda Soltani was a 27 year old philosophy student in Tehran. She was with her father when she was brutally killed on the street.
She has become a martyr, and a symbol, for the uprising for human rights and free election in Iran and she is becoming known for the supporting world.
Neda means voice in Farsi. Voicing is what many women and men are doing just now on the streets and thru all kinds of media.
Later on Sunday 21. June I found a reference on Twitter to a new Wikipedia article: RT @idrawhouses Neda (Iranian protester)From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://bit.ly/8cDwu
Twitter on the Barricades: 6 lessons learned
New York Times published this today:
- http://tinyurl.com/nxcsp2
Extracts, facsimile *courtesy to NYT
June 21, 2009
Twitter on the Barricades: Six Lessons Learned
By NOAM COHEN
Political revolutions are often closely linked to communication tools. (...)
But does the label Twitter Revolution, which has been slapped on the two most recent events, oversell the technology? Skeptics note that only a small number of people used Twitter to organize protests in Iran and that other means — individual text messaging, old-fashioned word of mouth and Farsi-language Web sites — were more influential. But Twitter did prove to be a crucial tool in the cat-and-mouse game between the opposition and the government over enlisting world opinion. As the Iranian government restricts journalists’ access to events, the protesters have used Twitter’s agile communication system to direct the public and journalists alike to video, photographs and written material related to the protests. (...). So maybe there was no Twitter Revolution. But over the last week, we learned a few lessons about the strengths and weaknesses of a technology that is less than three years old and is experiencing explosive growth.
1. Twitter Is a Tool and Thus Difficult to Censor
2. Tweets Are Generally Banal, but Watch Out
3. Buyer Beware
4. Watch Your Back
5. Twitter Is Self-Correcting but a Misleading Gauge
6. Twitter Can Be a Potent Tool for Media Criticism
THe article concludes: "Just as Twitter can rally protesters against governments, its broadcast ability can rally them quickly and efficiently against news outlets. One such spontaneous protest was given the tag #CNNfail, using Internet slang to call out CNN last weekend for failing to have comprehensive coverage of the Iranian protests. This was quickly converted to an e-mail writing campaign. CNN was forced to defend its coverage in print and online."
Source: Cohen, 2009 The New York Times, 21.6.2009 see above link.
- http://tinyurl.com/nxcsp2
Extracts, facsimile *courtesy to NYT
June 21, 2009
Twitter on the Barricades: Six Lessons Learned
By NOAM COHEN
Political revolutions are often closely linked to communication tools. (...)
But does the label Twitter Revolution, which has been slapped on the two most recent events, oversell the technology? Skeptics note that only a small number of people used Twitter to organize protests in Iran and that other means — individual text messaging, old-fashioned word of mouth and Farsi-language Web sites — were more influential. But Twitter did prove to be a crucial tool in the cat-and-mouse game between the opposition and the government over enlisting world opinion. As the Iranian government restricts journalists’ access to events, the protesters have used Twitter’s agile communication system to direct the public and journalists alike to video, photographs and written material related to the protests. (...). So maybe there was no Twitter Revolution. But over the last week, we learned a few lessons about the strengths and weaknesses of a technology that is less than three years old and is experiencing explosive growth.
1. Twitter Is a Tool and Thus Difficult to Censor
2. Tweets Are Generally Banal, but Watch Out
3. Buyer Beware
4. Watch Your Back
5. Twitter Is Self-Correcting but a Misleading Gauge
6. Twitter Can Be a Potent Tool for Media Criticism
THe article concludes: "Just as Twitter can rally protesters against governments, its broadcast ability can rally them quickly and efficiently against news outlets. One such spontaneous protest was given the tag #CNNfail, using Internet slang to call out CNN last weekend for failing to have comprehensive coverage of the Iranian protests. This was quickly converted to an e-mail writing campaign. CNN was forced to defend its coverage in print and online."
Source: Cohen, 2009 The New York Times, 21.6.2009 see above link.
An eyewitness from Iranian hospital
I post this eyewitness report I found on a blog, it seems authentic.
THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 2009
"What I have witnessed"
A powerful note from a female medical student in Iran, translated from Farsi by a trusty reader.
Hello,
It's painful to watch what's happening.
I don't want anything to do with what has been said this far, as I neither have the strength nor the resilience to face all these unfathomable events.
I only want to speak about what I have witnessed. I am a medical student. There was chaos last night at the trauma section in one of our main hospitals. Although by decree, all riot-related injuries were supposed to be sent to military hospitals, all other hospitals were filled to the rim. Last night, nine people died at our hospital and another 28 had gunshot wounds. All hospital employees were crying till dawn. They (government) removed the dead bodies on back of trucks, before we were even able to get their names or other information. What can you even say to the people who don't even respect the dead. No one was allowed to speak to the wounded or get any information from them. This morning the faculty and the students protested by gathering at the lobby of the hospital where they were confronted by plain cloths anti-riot militia, who in turn closed off the hospital and imprisoned the staff. The extent of injuries are so grave, that despite being one of the most staffed emergency rooms, they've asked everyone to stay and help--I'm sure it will even be worst tonight.
What can anyone say in face of all these atrocities? What can you say to the family of the 13 year old boy who died from gunshots and whose dead body then disappeared?
This issue is not about cheating(election) anymore. This is not about stealing votes anymore. The issue is about a vast injustice inflected on the people. They've put a baton in the hand of every 13-14 year old to smash the faces of "the bunches who are less than dirt" (government is calling the people who are uprising dried-up torn and weeds)
This is what sickens me from dealing with these issues. And from those who shut their eyes and close their ears and claim the riots are in opposition of the government and presidency!! No! The people's complaint is against the egregious injustices committed against the people.
POSTED BY EVERY IRANIAN AT 2:40 PM
LABELS: IRAN, IRANELECTION
THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 2009
"What I have witnessed"
A powerful note from a female medical student in Iran, translated from Farsi by a trusty reader.
Hello,
It's painful to watch what's happening.
I don't want anything to do with what has been said this far, as I neither have the strength nor the resilience to face all these unfathomable events.
I only want to speak about what I have witnessed. I am a medical student. There was chaos last night at the trauma section in one of our main hospitals. Although by decree, all riot-related injuries were supposed to be sent to military hospitals, all other hospitals were filled to the rim. Last night, nine people died at our hospital and another 28 had gunshot wounds. All hospital employees were crying till dawn. They (government) removed the dead bodies on back of trucks, before we were even able to get their names or other information. What can you even say to the people who don't even respect the dead. No one was allowed to speak to the wounded or get any information from them. This morning the faculty and the students protested by gathering at the lobby of the hospital where they were confronted by plain cloths anti-riot militia, who in turn closed off the hospital and imprisoned the staff. The extent of injuries are so grave, that despite being one of the most staffed emergency rooms, they've asked everyone to stay and help--I'm sure it will even be worst tonight.
What can anyone say in face of all these atrocities? What can you say to the family of the 13 year old boy who died from gunshots and whose dead body then disappeared?
This issue is not about cheating(election) anymore. This is not about stealing votes anymore. The issue is about a vast injustice inflected on the people. They've put a baton in the hand of every 13-14 year old to smash the faces of "the bunches who are less than dirt" (government is calling the people who are uprising dried-up torn and weeds)
This is what sickens me from dealing with these issues. And from those who shut their eyes and close their ears and claim the riots are in opposition of the government and presidency!! No! The people's complaint is against the egregious injustices committed against the people.
POSTED BY EVERY IRANIAN AT 2:40 PM
LABELS: IRAN, IRANELECTION
Iran today: what is happening now?
I can only say, stop the killing. Respect the dignity of people, along the lines Obama said.
Mousavi yesterday, Sat 20.6.2009
http://different-ways.co.cc/?p=332
Mousavi message on Twitter:
- I am prepared For martyrdom, go on strike if I am arrested #IranElection
(about 17 hours ago from web)
Yet, there is much confusion now in Tehran. The big Q is, what happens next?
Now people asks, acc to twitter sources, where is Mousavi?
And 5 members of the Rafsanjani family (he was expresident) is said arrested. Worrying news.
What is happening behind the scenes?
People suffers in the streets.
Mousavi yesterday, Sat 20.6.2009
http://different-ways.co.cc/?p=332
Mousavi message on Twitter:
- I am prepared For martyrdom, go on strike if I am arrested #IranElection
(about 17 hours ago from web)
Yet, there is much confusion now in Tehran. The big Q is, what happens next?
Now people asks, acc to twitter sources, where is Mousavi?
And 5 members of the Rafsanjani family (he was expresident) is said arrested. Worrying news.
What is happening behind the scenes?
People suffers in the streets.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Women in the forefront of Iran upraising
Women in the forefront (of the protests)... Says Azar Nasifi, author of Reading Lolita in Iran on CNN today.
This is noticed also when twittering, many women are very active and well linked with other protesters it seems. Cannot name them here as yet.
Retweat, do not know if confirmed
@IranRiggedElect: Zhila Baniyaghoob (journalist, women's rights activist) has been arrested (via @iranbaan) #iranelection
Do not know where Rafsanjani's daughter is at the moment, it seems she is still in Iran (she and a brother were probably stopped leaving Tehran, according to previous tweats).
Zahra Rahnavard, the wife of Mousavi stepped up today for the people's march 20.6.009.
This is noticed also when twittering, many women are very active and well linked with other protesters it seems. Cannot name them here as yet.
Retweat, do not know if confirmed
@IranRiggedElect: Zhila Baniyaghoob (journalist, women's rights activist) has been arrested (via @iranbaan) #iranelection
Do not know where Rafsanjani's daughter is at the moment, it seems she is still in Iran (she and a brother were probably stopped leaving Tehran, according to previous tweats).
Zahra Rahnavard, the wife of Mousavi stepped up today for the people's march 20.6.009.
Power play in Iran
The Independent reporter Robert Fisk suggests this thesis:
"...Because the fundamental conflict in Iran is being fought not on the streets of Tehran – a mere tragic, brutal sideshow that could soon become a bloodbath – but beneath the cupolas and minarets and pale blue tiles of the mosques of Qom."
http://tinyurl.com/nxsk3g
"...Because the fundamental conflict in Iran is being fought not on the streets of Tehran – a mere tragic, brutal sideshow that could soon become a bloodbath – but beneath the cupolas and minarets and pale blue tiles of the mosques of Qom."
http://tinyurl.com/nxsk3g
Robert Fisk on the difficulties to check what is truth in Iran
20. June 2009 The Independent correspondent Robert Fisk reflects on the challenges to know what is truth or fantasy in Tehran
Source: http://tinyurl.com/nqnj7o
"...So let's take a look at those Iranian elections. A fraud, we believe. And I have the darkest doubts about those election figures which gave Mousavi a paltry 33.75 per cent of the vote. Indeed, I and a few Iranian friends calculated that if the government's polling-night statistics were correct, the Iranian election committee would have had to have counted five million votes in just two hours. But our coverage of this poll has been deeply flawed. Most visiting Western journalists stay in hotels in the wealthy, north Tehran suburbs, where tens of thousands of Mousavi supporters live, where it's easy to find educated translators who love Mousavi, where interviewees speak fluent English and readily denounce the spiritual and cultural and social stagnation of Iran's – let us speak frankly – semi-dictatorship.
But few news organisations have the facilities or the time or the money to travel around this 659,278 square-mile country – seven times the size of Britain – and interview even the tiniest fraction of its 71 million people. When I visited the slums of south Tehran on Friday, for example, I found that the number of Ahmadinejad supporters grew as Mousavi's support dribbled away. And I wondered whether, across the huge cities and vast deserts of Iran, a similar phenomenon might be discovered. A Channel 4 television crew, to its great credit, went down to Isfahan and the villages around that beautiful city and came back with a suspicion – unprovable, of course, anecdotal, but real – that Ahmadinejad just might have won the election.
This is also my suspicion: that Ahmadinejad might have scraped in, but not with the huge majority he was awarded. For with their usual, clumsy, autocratic behaviour, the clerics behind the Islamic Republic may have decreed that only a greater majority for the winner could decisively annihilate the reputation of its secular opponents. Perhaps Ahmadinejad got 51 per cent or 52 per cent and this was preposterously increased to 63 per cent. Perhaps Mousavi picked up 44 per cent or 45 per cent. I don't know. The Iranians will never know, even though the Supreme Leader told us yesterday that the incredible 63 per cent was credible. That is Iran's tragedy.
Yes, Ahmadinejad remains for me an outrageous president, one of those cracked political leaders – like Colonel Ghaddafi or Lebanon's General Michel Aoun – which this region sadly throws up, to the curses of its friends and to the delight of its enemies in the West. And the Islamic Republic itself – while it has understandable historical roots in the savagery of the Shah's regime which preceded it, not to mention the bravery of its people – is a dangerously contrived and inherently unfree state which was locked into immobility by an unworldly and now long-dead ayatollah.
And those nuclear arms? How many of us reported a blunt statement which the Supreme Leader and the man who ultimately controls all nuclear development in Iran made on 4 June, just eight days before the elections? "Nuclear weapons," he said in a speech in which he encouraged Iranians to vote, "are religiously forbidden (haram) in Islam and the Iranian people do not have such a weapon. But the Western countries and the US in particular, through false propaganda, claim that Iran seeks to build nuclear bombs – which is totally false..."
There are few provable assurances in the Middle East, often few facts and a lot of lies. Dangers are as thick as snakes in the desert. As I write, I have just received another call from Lebanon. "Mr Fisk, a girl has been shot in Iran. I have a video from the internet. You can see her body..." And you know what? I think he might be right."
Source: http://tinyurl.com/nqnj7o
"...So let's take a look at those Iranian elections. A fraud, we believe. And I have the darkest doubts about those election figures which gave Mousavi a paltry 33.75 per cent of the vote. Indeed, I and a few Iranian friends calculated that if the government's polling-night statistics were correct, the Iranian election committee would have had to have counted five million votes in just two hours. But our coverage of this poll has been deeply flawed. Most visiting Western journalists stay in hotels in the wealthy, north Tehran suburbs, where tens of thousands of Mousavi supporters live, where it's easy to find educated translators who love Mousavi, where interviewees speak fluent English and readily denounce the spiritual and cultural and social stagnation of Iran's – let us speak frankly – semi-dictatorship.
But few news organisations have the facilities or the time or the money to travel around this 659,278 square-mile country – seven times the size of Britain – and interview even the tiniest fraction of its 71 million people. When I visited the slums of south Tehran on Friday, for example, I found that the number of Ahmadinejad supporters grew as Mousavi's support dribbled away. And I wondered whether, across the huge cities and vast deserts of Iran, a similar phenomenon might be discovered. A Channel 4 television crew, to its great credit, went down to Isfahan and the villages around that beautiful city and came back with a suspicion – unprovable, of course, anecdotal, but real – that Ahmadinejad just might have won the election.
This is also my suspicion: that Ahmadinejad might have scraped in, but not with the huge majority he was awarded. For with their usual, clumsy, autocratic behaviour, the clerics behind the Islamic Republic may have decreed that only a greater majority for the winner could decisively annihilate the reputation of its secular opponents. Perhaps Ahmadinejad got 51 per cent or 52 per cent and this was preposterously increased to 63 per cent. Perhaps Mousavi picked up 44 per cent or 45 per cent. I don't know. The Iranians will never know, even though the Supreme Leader told us yesterday that the incredible 63 per cent was credible. That is Iran's tragedy.
Yes, Ahmadinejad remains for me an outrageous president, one of those cracked political leaders – like Colonel Ghaddafi or Lebanon's General Michel Aoun – which this region sadly throws up, to the curses of its friends and to the delight of its enemies in the West. And the Islamic Republic itself – while it has understandable historical roots in the savagery of the Shah's regime which preceded it, not to mention the bravery of its people – is a dangerously contrived and inherently unfree state which was locked into immobility by an unworldly and now long-dead ayatollah.
And those nuclear arms? How many of us reported a blunt statement which the Supreme Leader and the man who ultimately controls all nuclear development in Iran made on 4 June, just eight days before the elections? "Nuclear weapons," he said in a speech in which he encouraged Iranians to vote, "are religiously forbidden (haram) in Islam and the Iranian people do not have such a weapon. But the Western countries and the US in particular, through false propaganda, claim that Iran seeks to build nuclear bombs – which is totally false..."
There are few provable assurances in the Middle East, often few facts and a lot of lies. Dangers are as thick as snakes in the desert. As I write, I have just received another call from Lebanon. "Mr Fisk, a girl has been shot in Iran. I have a video from the internet. You can see her body..." And you know what? I think he might be right."
Friday, June 19, 2009
Aung San Suu Kyi 64 years 19 June 2009
Courtesy for photo THe Guardian, Getty.
Burmese demonstrators in New Delhi pray for Aung San Suu Kyi on her 64th birthday. Photograph: STR/AFP/Getty Images/AFP/Getty Images
Aung San Suu Kyi is 64 today.
"She marks this milestone, as she has so many before, in detention – this time within the confines of Rangoon's notorious Insein jail, almost two decades after the election victory of her party.
Millions in this country have never seen Aung San Suu Kyi but she remains the thread which connects many of them to hope
They've never heard her speak. Many probably have only a vague idea of her views. But they know very well what she represents. They know very well how their lives have changed for the worse in the two decades she has been gone and what is at stake in this trial.
Ranged against her and the other brave people who struggle for a better future is an intimidating apparatus. An army over 350,000 strong. A different intelligence organisation for every day of the week. Eyes and ears everywhere. Crushing of the most minor displays of dissent. Yet for the last few weeks this unequal contest has shrunk itself down to a lone figure in the courtroom.
Aung San Suu Kyi once said that those struggling against oppression had no alternative but to draw on their "own inner resources" as they fought for their inalienable rights "as members of the human family". It's this core of dignity and determination that has won the admiration of the world ever since and which has shone through in her court appearances. Poised and dignified. Utterly assured. Mixing humour and seriousness and showing no hint of exasperation at the absurdity around her.
One could be forgiven for wondering who was on trial, captor or accused."
Posted by
Mark Canning Friday 19 June 2009 12.19 BST
guardian.co.uk
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Aung San Suu Kyi spends her 64th birthday in Rangoon's Insein jail
Latest post in a series by the British ambassador in Burma, Mark Canning, one of the few outsiders who has been allowed into the courtroom during the trial of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Mirriaam's hand raised for freedom in Tehran
http://img.piqlet.com/img0623.jpg
18 june. Imam sq. my hand :)
The world is watching and twittering...
Oxfordgirl twittered this afternoon:
"I went for a cup of coffee and there were more than 5000 new tweets on #iranelection #tehran #gr88. The world is truely watching."
"I went for a cup of coffee and there were more than 5000 new tweets on #iranelection #tehran #gr88. The world is truely watching."
The Independent today: Cockburn commenting on Iranian uprising
Courtesy: GETTY and the Independent (see link)
Protesters hold up a poster of Ayatollah Khomeini during a demonstration against the Shah on 1 January 1979
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/history-suggests-the-coup-will-fail-1708996.html#
History suggests the coup will fail, according to Patrick Cockburn, who reported from Iran during the 1979 revolution. In an article today he reflects on the fall of the Shah and explains why the current uprising is very different
Friday, 19 June 2009
"At first sight, what is happening in Tehran today looks very like the extraordinary events of the Islamic Revolution 30 years ago. But how deep do the similarities go? On 2 December 1978, two million Iranians filled the streets of central Tehran to demand an end to the rule of the Shah and the return of Ayatollah Khomeini. It was the most popular revolution in history. At night, people gathered on rooftops to chant "Allahu Akbar – God is Great". In the daytime, mass rallies commemorated as martyrs the protesters who had been killed by the security forces.
The methods of protest are very similar."
-"The spectacle, the symbols, and the language in Iran in 2009 are similar to those present in 1978-9, but the political forces at work could not be more different. The protesters then were much stronger than they looked; those of today have the odds heavily stacked against them."
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Zan's editor Faezeh Hashemi
Because of the current situation in Iran, it may be interesting to learn more about some potentially key figures. Here is an old interview with Faezeb Hashemi, former Parliament member, former editor of Zan (Woman) and daughter of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
Meeting Faezeh
The rise and fall of a talented woman
By Massoume Price
October 5, 2000
The Iranian
The first time I met Faezeh Hashemi was in December 1998, a day after my arrival in Tehran after 15 years of absence. We had never met but corresponded, exchanged gifts and knew about each other's private life. After the first Muslim Women's Olympics in Tehran in 1993, she sent me a copy of her book with a memo. Later on, being sarcastic, I sent her a see-through chiffon blouse and to my amazement I received word that she loved it. I still wonder where she might wear a blouse like that?
http://www.iranian.com/Features/2000/October/Faezeh/index.html
Meeting Faezeh
The rise and fall of a talented woman
By Massoume Price
October 5, 2000
The Iranian
The first time I met Faezeh Hashemi was in December 1998, a day after my arrival in Tehran after 15 years of absence. We had never met but corresponded, exchanged gifts and knew about each other's private life. After the first Muslim Women's Olympics in Tehran in 1993, she sent me a copy of her book with a memo. Later on, being sarcastic, I sent her a see-through chiffon blouse and to my amazement I received word that she loved it. I still wonder where she might wear a blouse like that?
http://www.iranian.com/Features/2000/October/Faezeh/index.html
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Industrial designer investing in Saab
Today it was announced that the designer Bård Eker via his 100 % owned company Eker Group is actually investing in the Swedish car-maker SAAB together with some other investors. Saab is owned by GM and is not making any money, rather it has been in big debts (today "akkord" solution was agreed upon).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPDwncq36GU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPDwncq36GU
Who has tasted freedom... Rolf Fisk is reporting from Iran
Robert Fisk: Fear has gone in a land that has tasted freedom
In defiance of the ban on foreign reporters, The Independent's Middle East correspondent ventures out to witness an extraordinary stand-off on the streets of Tehran
Wednesday, 17 June 2009
AP
Supporters of Mirhossein Mousavi protest on the streets of Tehran yesterday
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-fear-has-gone-in-a-land-that-has-tasted-freedom-1706912.html
In defiance of the ban on foreign reporters, The Independent's Middle East correspondent ventures out to witness an extraordinary stand-off on the streets of Tehran
Wednesday, 17 June 2009
AP
Supporters of Mirhossein Mousavi protest on the streets of Tehran yesterday
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-fear-has-gone-in-a-land-that-has-tasted-freedom-1706912.html
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
On garbage fleet into Venice
great idea!
- The Brooklyn artist Swoon and her merry band of anarchists from deepest Bushwick are invading the Venice Biennale this week—on boats built from garbage. New York City garbage.
By Vanessa Grigoriadis Published Jun 7, 2009
- The Brooklyn artist Swoon and her merry band of anarchists from deepest Bushwick are invading the Venice Biennale this week—on boats built from garbage. New York City garbage.
By Vanessa Grigoriadis Published Jun 7, 2009
Productive distractions
In favour of distractions, what I've felt right for many years in order to think or do things differently. So attention economy and scanning widely are not necessarily dichomotous, I suspect there are potentially productive disctractions but aided by a certain attention economy (to be able to scan quickly, move on etc).
http://nymag.com/news/features/56793/ *discovered this link via my colleague and friend Thomas Hoholm, BI.
Legal services exchanged in "new ways"
Legal services expected to be reorganized and bought in many "new" ways, see lessons from new book grounded in interviews.
Monday, June 15, 2009
Saab+Bård Eker?
Exciting times, wonder if designer entrepreneur Bård Eker together with Koenigsegg etc will manage to buy Saab.
http://www.dn.se/ekonomi/han-vill-ta-over-1.890683
http://www.dn.se/ekonomi/han-vill-ta-over-1.890683
Read SaftSuse from Berlin!
http://saftsuse.blogspot.com/ thoughtful pieces in Norwegian.
*from my daughter.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
2009 Year of Astronomy
It is four hundred years since Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) constructed his version of the telescope.
Courtesy to Wikepedia:
In 1609, Galileo was, along with Englishman Thomas Harriot and others, among the first to use arefracting telescope as an instrument to observe stars, planets or moons. The name "telescope" was coined for Galileo's instrument by a Greek mathematician, Giovanni Demisiani, at a banquet held in 1611 by Prince Federico Cesi to make Galileo a member of his Accademia dei Lincei. The name was derived from the Greek tele = 'far' and skopein = 'to look or see'.
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