Journalist and author of Lipstick Jihad
Posted in Journal on Sep 29th, 2007
The chatter surrounding Ahmadinejad’s visit to the United States simply won’t stop, so at risk of ignoring the gigantic fil in the room, here are my immediate thoughts. Firstly, the president should pay heed to Hugo Chavez’s PR tactics. That particular populist manages to capture international headlines and warm the hearts of anti-globalization college students [...]
Posted in Journal on Sep 8th, 2007
The very excellent National Iranian American Council (NIAC) headed by my friend Trita Parsi yesterday alerted us that a publication called the Columbus Dispatch on Tuesday published a political cartoon depicting Iran as a sewer and Iranians as cockroaches. I must admit the crudity of the racism sort of took my breath away. I used [...]
Posted in TIME on Sep 4th, 2007
On a sunny day earlier this summer, I took my 8-month-old baby boy Hourmazd for a walk in the foothills of Tehran’s Alborz Mountains. Families and young people crowded the tree-lined path ahead, chatting leisurely and snacking on crepes and barbecued corn. As I pushed the stroller along, a policewoman in a black chador blocked [...]