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The Persian Blogs
Soft Skull Press
December 2005
On Sale: November 28, 2005
384 pages
ISBN: 1933368055
EAN: 9781933368054
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Non-Fiction
In September 2001, a young Iranian journalist, Hossein
Derakhshan, created one of the first weblogs in Farsi. When
he also devised a simple how-to-blog guide for Iranians, it
unleashed a torrent of hitherto unheard opinions. There are
now 64,000 blogs in Farsi, and Nasrin Alavi has
painstakingly reviewed them all, weaving the most powerful
and provocative into a striking picture of the flowering of
dissent in Iran. From one blogger’s blasting of the Supreme
Leader as a "pimp" to another’s mourning for an identity
crushed by the stifling protection of her male relatives,
this collection functions not only as an archive of
Iranians’ thoughts on their country, culture, religion, and
the rest of the world, but also as an alternative recent
history of Iran. Government crackdowns may soon still these
voices — in February 2005, one blogger was sentenced to 14
years in jail — and We Are Iran may serve as the only
serious record of their existence.
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