Founding board members Roozbeh Mirebrahimi and Solmaz Sharif were featured in a New Yorker profile written by Laura Secor. Read full article here.
CONTINUE READINGIDJ was featured in a New York Times article dated November 2011. Read full article here.
CONTINUE READINGIran dar Jahan (IDJ) has set up a monitoring page based on relevant keywords and phrases. This RSS resource is hosted at Netvibes and can be viewed here.
CONTINUE READING‘Opposition? There is no such word here’ To read the full article in the Guardian, click here. To learn about our efforts to provide news to Iranians, click here. To visit the IDJ Web site, click here.
CONTINUE READINGRead our own Solmaz Sharif’s co-writing on International Business Times (IBTimes):In America, the fury over Google’s decision to kill Google Reader might seem like an overhyped brouhaha from privileged technophiles with too much time on their hands … Read more.
CONTINUE READINGRead our own Solmaz Sharif’s story on International Business Times (IBTimes): Bazaaries, the Farsi name for Iran’s traditional merchants, are typically a conservative, wealthy bunch reluctant to involve themselves in politics. Read more.
CONTINUE READINGRead our own Laura Secor’s story on The New Yorker: The ebbing of Presidential power in Iran is one of many indicators of worsening repression under the hand of the Supreme Leader. Iran leads the world in the imprisonment of journalists; opposition leaders languish under house arrest; and even the once powerful former President Hashemi […]
CONTINUE READINGRead our own Solmaz Sharif’s story on “The Huffington Post”: This year was the first in modern history that all Olympic teams — including that of Saudi Arabic — had at least one female athlete representing her country. Read More.
CONTINUE READINGRead our own Roozbeh MirEbrahimi’s article on “The Investigative Fund”: Practicing journalism in Iran is very difficult. For example, investigative journalism is almost impossible. Read more.
CONTINUE READINGRead our own Laura Secor’s story on Salon: I think I was 6 years old, at a day camp in Chautauqua, N.Y., where my family spent a couple of weeks that summer, when a woman pointed a microphone in my face. Read more.
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