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Persian Umpire reports on “comment fraud”

October 8, 2010

A state news agency in Iran reports that Ahmadinejad’s speech received 2.2 bil­lion com­ments and the ever-funny Per­sian Umpire reveals the truth: As I read on False News the night before that an article on France 24 – about Ahmadinejad’s recent speech at the UN – had drawn 2.2 bil­lion com­ments, I thought “kudos”. Kudos, not […]

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How Iranians Turned Me Into an Activist

October 7, 2010

Tori Egherman has a new article up in the online journal: Recon­struc­tion: Studies in Con­tem­po­rary Cul­ture. The article Activism and Pre­serving Com­plexity; How Ira­nians Turned Me Into an Activist dis­cusses her trans­for­ma­tion into an activist. Iran is amaz­ingly and glo­ri­ously com­plex. I was part of the com­plexity. An Amer­ican. A Jew. A Mid­west­erner, even. Married […]

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