In the past few years, blogging has become a very popular activity among Iranians living in Iran or abroad. There are many Persian blogs written by Iranians or Iranian-Americans in the US. They cover wide range of issues including daily challenges as an immigrant, Iran-US politics, and personal and emotional issues in daily life.
Blogging in Persian is an interesting and unique experience. In less than a minute of writing a piece, the author reaches out to people who live in all corners of the world. There are few immigrant communities with such a wide spread and vibrant blogging community. This creates its challenges too. Readers have widely different backgrounds, and every written piece can get subjected to widely different interpretations. This can create misunderstandings and tension between the blog author and the readers.
In our panel, we will have four bloggers from Bay area who would discuss their experience as a blogger:
http://omidmemarian.blogspot.com
http://balootak.com
http://mehran1978.blogspot.com
http://zharf.blogspot.com
There will be a moderated discussion with time for questions and answers.
The talks will be in Persian and open to public.
Time: 4pm to 6pm
Date: Saturday, February 10th
Location: Havana Room, GCC building, Stanford University
Address: 750 Escondido Road, Stanford, CA 94305
Note: If you are coming from outside the campus, please note that you have to take "Campus Drive Rd" instead of "Stanford Avenue" to come to "750 Escondido Road" due to road block on
Escondido Ave.
Friday, February 09, 2007
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how was it?
interesting! people can have so many different reasons and styles to blog.
omid memarian raised some interesting points:
-how American blogs are funded and therefore more focused, have better structure, and consequently more readers
-the lack of support from Iranian community for Persian journalists and writers that results in preventing the Persian literature and culture to keep its existence here [he compared us to the Jewish community, reasoning that because Jews do support their artists, Jewish words, and Jewish names are well-known in USA, but it's far from that for Persian names and words.
- he also mentioned the book "2 harf" from Masoud Behnoud, saying that in that book Behnoud states that if all the people speak by only 2 words it will enrich the language data base by a huge extent. From that Omid concluded that blogs could have the same effect, because everybody is writing and not even 2 people have exact similar blogs...
they mentioned your blog 'deltangestan' as one of the great Persian blogs and the one that they frequently read.
Did they speak about a preference between writing in Persian or English? Those who cannot read Persian have a selfish reason for choosing English, but also this way you may help Persian culture, literature, ideas, etc. to reach a wider audience.
http://www.iranian.com/JahanshahJavid/2007/February/Bloggers/index.html
you have a point Joshua. specially because I see the tendency among Iranian community to socialize among themselves as much as they can. that doesn't either.
thanks for the photos Mohammad. Can you see me? ;-)
http://www.iranian.com/JahanshahJavid/2007/February/Bloggers/36.html
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:))))
nope!
http://www.iranian.com/JahanshahJavid/2007/February/Bloggers/47.html
I am wearing a red sweater.
I'm happy to meet you again ;) ....
hmmmmm .... let say after .... 3 years or 4 years or even more :O
let's try not get too dramatic here...
but I miss you too.
hope too see you soon, somewhere, sometime,
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