We Are Iran
The Persian Blogs
by Nasrin Alavi
1-55192-871-X
CDN $24.95 paper
Raincoast
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A surprisingly personal, urgent and unprecedented look at the lives, thoughts and feelings of Iranian people.
We Are Iran provides a portrait of contemporary Iran using that nation’s weblogs — internet diaries — as its primary source.
Author Nasrin Alavi has translated the Farsi blogs to English and has provided a cohesive commentary to help readers better understand the politics and culture of this virtual community.
The voices in this text are full of wit, anger and optimism, and are refreshingly at odds with the grim vision of the country peddled by Western governments. Iranian bloggers talk of conflicts with the law, the conditions of women, of repression and its subversion,
and of culture, religion and the world around them.
This is not the stereotypical Iran of thuggish militias and bearded ayatollahs, but instead a portrait of a highly educated, youthful and literate country that finds Islamist fundamentalism antiquated, a country where 70 percent
of the population is under 30 and keen to usher in a new ear.
Read Commentary about this book on
http://blogs.raincoast.com:
On January 12, Nasrin joined CBC host Rick MacInnes-Rae from London to talk about her book and the nature of blogging in Iran.
Audio files are available from the CBC Dispatches website, www.cbc.ca/dispatches/
Or you can click on the CBC links below to listen to the program in RealAudio:
Listen to Blog Entry
Listen to Rick's conversation with Nasrin Alavi
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