The United Nations envoy Jan Pronk has been expelled from Sudan because of comments in his blog.
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The United Nations envoy Jan Pronk has been expelled from Sudan because of comments in his blog.
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on a similar note, you might be interested in “We Are Iran” by Nasrin Alavi.
That’s fascinating Ashley thanks, I wasn’t familiar with that.
Interesting too that 70% of the population of the country is under 30… and they are, this author says, ‘the efflorescence of dissent in Iran’.
Two telling excerpts from the backstory:
‘In September 2001, a young Iranian journalist named Hossein Derakhshan, created one of the very first weblogs in his native language of Farsi. In response to a request from a reader, he created a simple how-to-blog guide in Farsi. With the modest aim of giving other Iranians a voice, he wound up unleashing a torrent of opinion, the likes of which had never before been seen in the Islamic world.
There are now 64,000 blogs in Farsi…’
‘…there has now been a massive crackdown on bloggers; just a few months ago, one blogger was jailed for 14 years. It is indeed possible, for the moment, that the voices of the bloggers have been stilled…’
I found a free online sample chapter from the book (We Are Iran: The Persian Blogs), at http://www.softskull.com/files/WeAreIran_SampleChapterLo.pdf and the backstory here: http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-933368-05-5.
I’ll add it to my Amazon.ca wishlist, in case anyone is feeling irrepressibly generous 🙂
That is crazy. It is really an amazing power that blogs offer people to communicate. It can be used for right and wrong and can be attack for both.
it would be impossible to follow all nlogs around the globe