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Exclusive, Featured, General, Human Rights, Live Blogging, Must Read, Opinion, Politics, Video February 4, 2011

Egypt Revolution – Day 11 – Day of Departure, Friday of Farewell

IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a live-blog report on protests and unrest in Egypt on February 4, 2011. The information and videos in this report are sourced from various social media outlets, with Twitter being our primary source. We will do our best to interpret the events, but the situation is chaotic and information is difficult [...]

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Featured, From the Web, Opinion September 30, 2010

Wired: Weak Ties, Twitter and Revolution

Wired.com | September 29, 2010 By Jonah Lehrer Just a quick note on Malcolm Gladwell’s Twitter/Social Change article in The New Yorker: It’s an extremely thought-provoking piece, written with the usual flair. For those who haven’t read it, Gladwell argues that online social networks aren’t suited for “real” social activism, so all the utopian predictions [...]

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Featured, From the Web, Politics September 30, 2010

RFE/RL: Iran Says Facebook And Twitter Are Country’s ‘Hidden Enemies’

Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty | September 29, 2010 by Golnaz Esfandiari Iranian state-controlled television has accused Facebook and Twitter of being Iran’s “hidden enemies” and tools used by Western intelligence agencies in order to recruit new members and gather data on individuals. The website Mardomak has posted a video of the report. The [...]

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Featured, From the Web, Human Rights, Must Read, Politics July 4, 2010

Rooz: The Eyes and Ears of the Green Movement

If in the past year, thousands of Iranians have been imprisoned, wounded, exiled, tortured and more than a hundred people have been killed on the streets, it is all because of the regime’s fear of the Movement’s expansion and its widespread use of violence against the people.

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Featured, General March 9, 2010

U.S. Hopes Internet Exports Will Help Open Closed Societies

(The New York Times) | March 7, 2010 By MARK LANDLER WASHINGTON — Seeking to exploit the Internet’s potential for prying open closed societies, the Obama administration will permit technology companies to export online services like instant messaging, chat and photo sharing to Iran, Cuba and Sudan, a senior administration official said Sunday. On Monday, [...]

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Arts and Culture, Exclusive, Featured, General, Opinion December 6, 2009

Why the Green Movement will Prevail

Sadness to me is the happiest time When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind Those times when I’m silent and still as the earth, The thunder of my roar is heard across the universe. Rumi It has now been almost six months since those fateful days in June when the [...]

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Featured, General November 29, 2009

Social Networking and the Making of a Civil Rights Movement

(Mowjcamp) Hamid Dabashi A rather peculiar reference to a prominent nineteenth century philosopher made Mir Hossein Mousavi’s letter to Ayatollah Montazeri of some urgent interest. More than three months into the post-electoral crisis of June 2009, the chief oppositional candidate, who had cried foul soon after the officially declared victory of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, had written [...]

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Featured, General July 3, 2009

Green Report #17 – Fresh News from Iran – Summary of tweets on Iran from Friday, July 3

I’m NiteOwl AKA Josh Shahryar – twitter.com/iran_translator on twitter – and I’ve been immersed in tweets from Iran for the past several hours. I have tried to be extremely careful in choosing my tweet sources. What I have compiled below is what I can confirm through my reliable twitter sources. Remember, this is all from [...]

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Featured, General July 2, 2009

Green Report #16 – Fresh News from Iran – Summary of tweets on Iran from Thursday, July 2

I’m NiteOwl AKA Josh Shahryar – twitter.com/iran_translator on twitter – and I’ve been immersed in tweets from Iran for the past several hours. I have tried to be extremely careful in choosing my tweet sources. What I have compiled below is what I can confirm through my reliable twitter sources. Remember, this is all from [...]

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Featured January 13, 2012

Feature: Instagrams from Iran (picture compilation)

A few pictures from Iran, taken by ordinary people and posted to Instagram

Featured December 28, 2011

Iran Feature: Former Detainee Sarah Shourd “The Plight of Iranians and 3 Decades of US Foreign Policy”

The incredible thing for me was that so many Iranians worldwide took the time to care about us despite the thousands of other political prisoners they have to worry about. “I’m an Iranian boy ashamed for what our government did to three American hikers,” another message on Facebook says. “I want you to know Iranian people are with you and against their own government. Iran’s regime is not chosen by Iranian people. They kill and torture us and we are all in a very big prison named Iran.”

Featured December 14, 2011

Iran Feature: The Supreme Leader Is Worried — Three Developments You Probably Don’t Know

Our partner, EAWorldView, has published a ground-breaking piece on Iran’s Supreme Leader. This is a must-read.

Exclusive December 10, 2011

Live-blog: Russia, what’s next?

Exclusive November 28, 2011

Live-blog: Egypt Elections, Day 1

A historic day: The first post-Mubarak elections in Egypt

Featured November 24, 2011

Journalist Mona Eltahawy’s harrowing ordeal – beating, sexual assault and arrest in Egypt – in her own words and tweets

“The past 12 hrs were painful and surreal but I know I got off much much easier than so many other Egyptians.”