Enjoy:

(A Street Journalist) | March 8, 2010
by Setareh Sabety
To mark international women’s day I decided I should write about three Iranian women whom I came to know well when living in Iran just before Ahmadinejad’s first term. The three of them worked for me as housekeepers/babysitters and my knowledge of their lives is limited to [...]

(The Pedestrian Blog) | March 10, 2010
The Pedestrian is an excellent blog providing insightful pieces on Iranian culture, politics and life.   Highly recommended by Iran News Now.
Emad Bahavar [1979] is a political activist, writer and the head of “Supporters of Khatami and Mousavi” in the 2009 presidential campaign. He was arrested shortly after the election, [...]

(Tehran Bureau) | March 8, 2010
Cartoons depicting Iranian women from 1900 to 1917

View more interesting cartoons depicting Iranian women at Tehran Bureau.

But, while she says her generation of Iranians have learned “never to hope”, she believes the movement for change could soon prove unstoppable. Rather than another revolution, she says, they would like to see “an evolution – we want even the mullahs to live in peace”. “It’s like a windscreen of a car: when there’s a little crack, it will be everywhere,” she says. “Either you have to change it or it’s going to destroy itself. And now the crack is there.”

Mohsen Makhmalbaf refers to Iran’s citizen journalists that have been protesting and filming those protests using cell phone cameras, and distributing those films via the use of Internet technology and social media as “real artists.”
I agree.

(Gozaar.org) | February 24, 2010
A Lecture by Dr. Akhavan in Chicago
Human rights and Iranian identity
What does it mean to be Iranian? What does it mean to be a human being? These are the questions confronting the Iranian people at this crucial juncture in their long history. In the incredible and unforgettable scenes that have unfolded [...]

(BusinessWeek) | February 24, 2010
By Ali Sheikholeslami
Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) — The United Nations General Assembly recognized March 21 as the International Day of Nowruz, a festival of Persian origin that marks the beginning of a new year for more than 300 million people.
Nowruz, meaning new day in the Farsi language, has been celebrated on [...]

(Homy Lafayette’s Iran News Blog) | February 13, 2010
Texas artist breathes new life into old Iranian protest anthem

In early December of 2009, a new, hypnotic version of the 1970s protest anthem ‘Yareh Dabestaniyeh Man’ (My schoolfriend) appeared on the web site of Where Is My Vote – New York.
The fresh take on the old classic [...]

(Pedestrian) | February 20, 2010

One of the most popular TV shows on IRIB after the revolution, was the Secret Army [1977], a join BBC/BRT [Belgian National Broadcasting] project about a Belgian/French resistance movement during the Second World War. The show originally aired in Iran in 1990.
The reruns aired on IRIB for years, but somehow, I [...]