[lbo-talk] Everyday Life in Iran

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

What's missing from the Western mass media and Western leftist
discourse on Iran, which tends to specialize in fear mongering, is
everyday life of Iranians.  Here's a blog that can tell you a lot
about it: Iran to iu kuni [A Country Called Iran]
<http://sarasaya.exblog.jp/>.  The blogger is a Japanese woman who has
been living in Iran since 1996, and she has been teaching Japanese at
the University of Tehran.  She's been blogging about her life in Iran,
her observations on Iranian culture and society, and her conversations
with Iranians since 2004, everything from her grocery shopping to her
argument with campus security guards who check on whether her outfit
is up to Islamic regulation.  In a true expat fashion, she complains a
lot -- especially about Iranian students, who like to avoid homework
and come to class late -- but she also demystifies how things are.

-- 
Yoshie
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