.And The Economist learns a few lessons:

Remember Ahmad Batebi?

Baktay, die and you will be free!

The Buddha Collapsed out of Shame is a beautifully shot film by the younger Makhmalbaf film-maker, Hana. It tells the story of a young Afghan girl wanting to learn how to read and the struggle she undertakes to purchase a notebook by selling eggs. On her way to school she [...]

I worry that I leave it too long between posts here. It’s just that you know when you really want to be creative and write something really interesting but because you’ve been really busy having a real life and not one of these ‘virtual lives’ it gets harder and harder to come back and write something [...]

I’ve waited so long to be able to write this… Last night I went to see Persepolis. Its film premiere took place at London’s BFI cinema complex, which is about 200 miles from home. A long way to travel just to go the cinema hey? And we were half an hour late. No matter, the hour [...]

Iran as a Nation of Nose-jobs is another one of those repetitive cliches that, putting it politely, really gets on my nerves. Since beginning my research into Iranian blogging I have collected a mass of editorials that, like Hitchens, although seemingly attempt to depict ‘Iran’s Other Face‘ or ‘Lift the Veil‘ do little more than [...]