Posted on 11 November 2009.
Some say that “titles are handed out like candy” in Iran, especially (and unfortunately) in certain bureaucratic circles.
But to forge an academic document (we mean degree) from Oxford University claiming that you got an honorary doctorate, might be pushing it.
In particular… when you don’t even bother to use spell check.
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Posted on 15 July 2009.
Not surprisingly, the phrase “the dog days of summer” never translates well into Farsi. June 12, 2009 jolted the passions of [the] Iranian community and others like no other in recent memory. Across the spectrum, the election and its aftermath took the political experts by surprise, though no clear consensus [has] emerged about what the images exposed through Twitter, Youtube, and Facebook signified.
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Posted on 15 July 2009.
In a new interview for his just released film, Bruno, Sacha Baron Cohen’s uber-gay character is asked: “If you had a chance to go on a date with Kim Jong -il or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who would you choose and what would you do?”
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Posted on 15 June 2009.
Hundreds of thousands of Iranians gather @ Azadi Square in Tehran -- Image via AFP
Finally reacting to the Iranian election aftermath, President Obama said, “obviously all of us have been watching the news from Iran and I want to start off by being very clear that it’s up to Iranians to make decisions about who Iran’s leaders will be… we respect Iranian sovereignty and want to avoid the United States being the issue inside of Iran – which sometimes the US can be a handy political football – having said all that, I’m deeply troubled by the violence that I’m seeing on television.“
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Posted on 29 January 2008.
WASHINGTON, DC – As Iran’s colorless headline-led image blisters on, Iranian-Americans prove to be (more now than ever before) feeling the responsibility of correcting what is conceivably an unjust and stained perception of themselves. Through her film, ARUSI: PERSIAN WEDDING, which is an absolute optical delight, Iranian-American director Marjan Tehrani, unobtrusively shoots the attempts of her prédécesseurs… out of focus.
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