Archive for the 'Iran' Category
March 18th, 2010
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Category: Iran, Libraries, Personal, Sheffield, Veganism
Tags: animal rights, animals, apple, crochet, diving, environment, knitting, sea shepherd, sewing, whales, whaling
I made it into the Overview this month, here’s what I had to say:
What’s the best bit of advice you’ve ever received?
“Ask the librarian”, because even when they don’t know the answer they’re pretty good at pointing you in the right direction. It’d be that or “Knowledge is power, arm yourself”.
Who or what inspires you?
Evolution! [...]
November 30th, 2009
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Category: Iran, News, Personal
Tags: environment, india, lashkar-e-taiba, mousavi, mumbai, music, obama, science, terrorism
There seems to be a lot of stuff flying around at the moment about what the Noughties will be remembered for. What has happened in the last decade that will make it stand out from other decades? Well…
In general:
9/11?
The ‘War on Terror’ (i.e. two unjustified unending wars)?
America’s first black President?
Iran’s disputed elections?
The Large Hadron Collider?
The [...]
June 20th, 2009
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Category: Iran, Personal, Politics, Web 2.0
Tags: blog, blogging, censorship, education, internet, iranian, islamic republic, persian, uni
When I began thinking about dissertation topics over two years ago I was met by one particular unenthusiastic criticism due to my lack of knowledge regarding the Persian language. I don’t think she ever really understood my subject or why it was important. it was either that or she was too busy playing around in [...]
June 19th, 2009
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Category: Iran
Tags: economist, human rights, iranian, islamic republic, youth
.And The Economist learns a few lessons:
Remember Ahmad Batebi?
June 19th, 2009
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Category: Iran, News
Tags: apple, blog, blogging, censorship, google, internet, iphone, iranian, persian
Google have been providing their useful Google Translate service for quite a while now but today seems to be a rather special day. They’ve finally released a support for Persian, something I think is much more appropriate than colouring the Google logo green for a day – simply because this is it far more useful [...]