Tuesday, February 12, 2008
By: IranVNC
Published: Tuesday, February 12, 2008
BLOG WATCH
*Blogging political and social issues
The blog “cherknevis” [rough draft] belongs to Kianush Sanjari who has sought asylum in Norway after years in prison and subsequent difficulties he encountered. He writes about Norwegian students’ support of Iranian students’ civil and student movement and writes the following about how he is telling about the fate of students in Iran. He writes:
“…I told them that perhaps this crime could be named: Sacred crime - meaning that students are kidnapped; they have to confess under torture to things they have not done; they have to admit that they have links with groups opposed to the government; they have to admit that they intended to overthrow the regime and if they do not admit to these accusation, they might get killed…I recounted for these Norwegian students that the morning after Ebrahim [Lotfollahi] was killed, he was secretly buried so that the marks of the Sacred Crime would not be seen on his body. I recounted for them that before Ebrahim Lotfollahi, a young woman physician named Zahra Bani Ya’qub was also secretly wrapped in the shroud of the Sacred Crime in the detention centre of the Basij paramilitary force. And before her, so too was Akbar Mohammadi, whose memory still lives in the memory of Iranian students.”
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
http://ks61.blogspot.com/2008/02/blog-post.html
On the blog “Qomar-e asheqaneh [passionate gambling], Madyar describes the case of a Saudi blogger as a contribution to efforts made to release him. The Saudi blogger is being detained on the charge of “writing and exposing [names]” and has been tortured. Madyar believes that “blogs and bloggers have become the nightmare of governments and that they are informing and reminding everyone about the violation of human rights and other abuses. The blogger writes:
“…Saudi Arabia, which is a monarchy and has a single head of state, is among countries which violate human rights. But because of its oil wells, the international community pays less attention to these violations than it should.
“An example of this is the case of Fu’ad Rahman, a 32 year-old Saudi blogger, who has been in detention since 10 December 2007.
“last month [January 2007], he published a list of Saudi officials, which included the names of one of the members of the Saudi Royal family – Prince Walid ibn Tallal - a millionaire merchant and known media figure and Shaykh Salih al-Lahidan, the Chief of the Judiciary in Saudi Arabia.”
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
http://ghomaar.blogspot.com/2008/01/fouad-alfarha-arrested-on-december.html
On the blog “dast-nevesh-haye yek liberal [hand-written works of a liberal]”, Rashid believes that today in history, we have are facing a poverty of “giants and great personalities”, not only in the fields of philosophy and politics and the arts but also in many other fields. He says that we have lost the “giants” and writes:
“… today, neither the leftist have been able to produce someone like [Theodore W.] Adorno, [Jack] Horkheimer, [Walter] Benjamin and [Herbert] Marcuse; nor have the liberals and conservatives been able to breed figures such as [Karl] Popper, [Thomas] Hyke, [Estre] Ravalez and [Isaiah] Berlin…even the post-modernists are still waiting for another [Michel] Foucault.
“Why should we look any further, have musicians today the same aura and greatness as figures such as Mozart, Wagner and Beethoven to mingle the heat of modernism with German idealism and create such everlasting masterpieces?
The same situation applies in so far literature is concerned. If we exclude figures such as [Garcia] Marquez and [Mila] Kundura, who are the last remaining greats of the previous generation, we encounter a small number of matching or average figures who, in spite of their avant-garde postures and at times astonishing deconstructions [Persian: sakhtar-shekani], who have never been able to fill the gaps left by [John] Steinbeck, [James] Joyce, [Piechock] H. Minguy, [Virginia] Woolf, [Franz] Kafka and [Albert] Camus…”
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
http://mandegarha.blogfa.com/post-2.aspx
*Blogging personal issues
The writer of the blog “Matnha-yi bara-ye hich [writings about nothing]” has turned into poetry and prose what is happening to blogger and the people around him/her, describing his/her heart’s turmoil in the following way:
“Mother’s milk smelt of au-de-cologne - father’s hand smelt of sweat,
“I said: I am a child, I do not understand - bread smelt of petrol,
“Life smelt rotten; I said I am young, I do not understand,
“Now that I have retired, everything can smell of whatever they smell like,
“Except that parks should not smell of graveyards and rifle loaders [?please check: shane-e tokhmemorgh?] should not smell of books.
Animal’s Fortress
I am a lamb in the streets [and] a parrot at school,
In am a cow in the office [and] when I reach home I turn into a dog,
A shepherd from the Children’s Programme shouts: A wolf! A wolf!
And I, standing next to the heater, bark my latest poem!”
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
http://kolyesharghy.blogspot.com/2008/02/blog-post 08.html
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