We Are Iran The Persian Blogs

"We Are Iran provides a moving and multi-voiced portrait of contemporary Iran using that nation's weblogs - internet diaries - as its primary source. The voices - translated from Farsi and infused with Persian lyricism - are full of wit, anger and optimism, and are refreshingly at odds with the grim vision of the country peddled by Western governments. Iranian bloggers talk of conflicts with the law, the condition of women, of repression and its subversion, and of culture, religion and the world around them."--BOOK JACKET.

Nasrin Alavi is the author of We Are Iran: The Persian Blogs, which was translated into several languages. She is a contributor to The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Freedom in Iran. Her writing has also been published in the Financial Times Magazine, the Times, the Independent, La Vanguardia (Spain), and Das Parlament (Germany); and she has written extensively for Germany's Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung (Federal Agency for Civic Education).