It’s been a busy week for me and so I haven’t been doing as much meaty blogging as I would have liked, but I wanted to point you all in the direction of two Iran-related articles of note:
1. Iran’s Michelle Obama. I hate the title, but it’s an interesting, if brief, profile of Zahra Rahnavard.
2. From the Ground Up: Democracy and Women’s Rights in Iran. A wonderful piece about exactly what the title says.
Enjoy.
Check out, on my blog the campaign ad from one of the opposition/reformist candidates. As I said there, I know that a campaign ad is a campaign ad, and how easy it is to be cynical about them–perhaps especially in a place like Iran–but it took real guts to place two issues specifically related to women’s rights in the ad as prominently as this candidate did.
Thought you might like this:
http://www.forbes.com/2009/06/17/political-climate-elections-iran-forbes-woman-power-feminism.html
Bitch has a round-up of stories on how the election and protests effect women’s rights in Iran.
You might check out this short article in Al Jazeera, and interview with Iranian author,
Azar Nafisi
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/06/2009613181040285185.html
Another one.