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Iran Election & Twitter, YouTube & Flickr

Posted on Tuesday, 16 June, 2009 by John

I’ve been following the events unfolding on Twitter and the various links to other social networking sites, and it has been fascinating. Despite all the recent scepticism about Twitter, this does seem to be a real time unrolling of events. If you want to follow what is going on you need to log into Twitter [...]

Posted in Politics | Tagged #gr88, #IranElection, basij, election, Green Revolution, Iran, Mousavi, Obama, russia, Tehran, USA | Leave a comment

A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini

Posted on Monday, 15 June, 2009 by John

Positive review of Khaled Hosseini’s novel A Thousand Splendid Suns. Continue reading →

Posted in Literature | Tagged Afghan, Afghanistan, Al Quaeda, America, Herat, islam, jihad, Kabul, Khaled Hosseini, Laila, Mariam, Mujahideen, muslim, novel, Pakistan, Peshawar, russia, Russian, Soviet Union, Taliban, USA | Leave a comment

What I’m Reading – A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch

Posted on Tuesday, 7 April, 2009 by John

I have revisited “A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch” by Alesandr Solzhenitsyn and without in any way detracting from the suffering of those incarcerated in the Gulags, as I read it my mind seemed to be taken back to my days at boarding school. It wasn’t the punishments or the starvation or the [...]