Posts Tagged ‘#Iranelection’

Video : Bon Jovi and Andy Sing ‘Stand By Me’ IN FARSI for Iranian People

In History, Internet, Iran, Music, News on 22 February 2011 tagged #Iranelection, Andy, Andy Madadian, Ben E. King, Bon Jovi, Don Was, Farsi, Green Revolution, Iran, John Shanks, Jon Bon Jovi, Stand By Me, Video, Youtube with no comments

You couldn’t be an Afghan-American FOB growing up in the age of MTV not hearing Andy Madadian or Bon Jovi and now the two megastars come together in support of the Iranian people: ما یکی هستیم WE ARE ONE. “To give voice to the sentiment that all people of the world stand together”

Beware Hunger and Fury

In Afghanistan, Iran, Palestine, Politics, War on 20 January 2011 tagged #Iranelection, Furies, Fury, Gaza air strikes, Iranian election, Neda, Neda Agah Soltan, Neda Agha-Soltan, Salman Rushdie, Shiva with no comments

“Bread is a red line. Beware of our starvation and fury” -January 14, 2011 “Life is fury, he’d thought. Fury — sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal — drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths. Out of furia comes creation, inspiration, originality, passion, but also violence, pain, pure unafraid destruction, the giving and receiving [...]

To Get Nowhere Fast : Why Malcolm Gladwell is Correct About Twitter and Social Change

In History, Internet, Iran, Iraq, News, Opinion, Politics, Twitter on 21 October 2010 tagged #Iranelection, @aplusk, Anil Dash, Ashton Kutcher, Biz Stone, Clay Shirky, Evgeny Morozov, Facebook, Farsi, Golnaz Esfandiari, Greensboro Sit-ins, Malcolm Gladwell, Mark Granovetter, Mark Pfeifle, Micah M. White, Nobel Peace Prize, Sidekick, Slacktivism, Small Change, The New Yorker, Twitter, Weak Ties with no comments

Earlier this month Malcolm Gladwell’s piece about social media and activism in the New Yorker caused quite a stir online. The battle lines were drawn almost immediately as people took to the Internet to express their disagreement with Gladwell’s stance. However, in the rush to defend the likes of Twitter and Facebook it seems that [...]

HBO’s Neda Agha-Soltan Documentary

In citizenship, Crime, fame, fashion, History, Iran, News, Opinion, Politics, Twitter on 16 June 2010 tagged #Iranelection, Ali Ansari, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, Azar Nafisi, Green Revolution, HBO, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mehdi Karoubi, Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh, Mousavi, Neda Agah Soltan, Neda Agha-Soltan, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Tehran with 1 comment

“The God I worship is a compassionate and loving God” – Neda Agha Soltan “The whole idea with this [Iranian] regime is that because they confiscated religion and turned it into an ideology, they deprived it of everything that makes religion humane…so this government in fact destroyed the religion by claiming it and confiscating it” [...]

Mousavi and Malalai Joya (?!) Make Time 100

In Afghanistan, fame, History, Iran, News, Opinion, Politics, War on 29 April 2010 tagged #Iranelection, 2003 loya jirga, Banksy, Conan O‘Brien, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Green Revolution, Iranian election, Kathryn Bigelow, loya jirga, Malalai Joya, Marc Jacobs, Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh, Mousavi, NATO, Shoreh Aghdashloo, Time 100, Time Magazine with no comments

Time magazine’s list of “100 people who most affect our world,” this year includes notable entries like Banksy, Marc Jacobs, Kathryn Bigelow, Conan O‘Brien and General Stanley McChrystal, but the two most notable entries are Iranian Revolutionary hero and former Presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh and former Afghan Parliamentarian Malalai Joya. Mousavi: The inevitable inclusion [...]