Doellman-Iran blog
Iran is constantly in the news with images of weapons of mass destruction, nuclear weapons and so forth. The country is situated in the crossroads of the Middle East and has become supposedly one of the most threatening countries to the world. But most of the blogs I found state that Iran is a danger mostly to its own citizens.
One blog I found is contributed by three people: one from Iran, one from Germany and one from Israel. The blog is titled Rotten Gods and focuses on mostly human rights and religious issues in Iran. Some interesting ones I found were about censorship of the media, people being killed for converting from Islam to Christianity or atheism and women removing their scarves and long clothing when leaving Iranian airspace.
Another blog I found was from Chris Gelken, a self-proclaimed “nomad journalist.” He spent a year working in Tehran before returning with his wife to Beijing. Gelken wrote about a memoir he was reading that was written by a female professor living her life in and around the Iranian Revolution of 1979. The book is not easily found in Iran, according to Gelken, because of the apparently negative interpretation of the revolution and its after effects. I like blogs that can point me to other blogs or sources of information, so I am looking into tracking down the memoir he was reading and writing about.
The final blog I viewed was about the Iranian Film Festival. I found this post particularly interesting because the movies were mostly about women. Yet women are treated very poorly in Iran. I cannot believe women would even be allowed to star in, write or direct movies because of the oppression that takes place in Iran.
