Comments on: Jacki Lyden: Iran at Another Crossroad

By: Nina Miller

Nina Miller — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:56:53 +0000

Jacki, I very much want to support Iranian feminists with a contribution to one of their groups, or an international group based outside of Iran that works with Iranian feminists. Can you point me in the right direction? I’m having a difficult time identifying what groups are out there.

Thank you!

Also – Queen of Sheba was great. Congratulations on the movie!

By: Willse Elizabeth

Willse Elizabeth — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:02:57 +0000

Seconding Chris's praise of this elegantly written post. It reminds me of Lipstick Jihad by Azadeh Moaveni I haven't read Azar Nafisi. Hmm- anyone for a WVFC book club?

By: Lombardi Chris

Lombardi Chris — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:46:01 +0000

Thanks for your glimpse of life inside Iran,and people most of us know nothing about. Azar Nafisi’s books do the same — both Reading Lolita in Tehran and her newest, The Things I’ve Been Silent About. The latter, a book about mothers and daughters and and women’s lives, was called in December by Francine du Plessix Gray as “an utterly memorable (pardon the alliteration) memoir.”

These narratives, like the photos of grinning men and shy women in the protests, can help us shake off the deadening Washington rhetoric.