On Jul 10, 2009, at 8:08 PM, Chris Doss wrote:
> True. But anything published in English about Iran (or any other
> foreign country) that has at all a popular bent to it is going to be
> filtered by what the publisher feels is interesting for his or her
> readers and/or marketable. This results in the image of the state of
> affairs being skewed.
Huh? Does this include works in English by Hamid Dabashi, Ervand Abrahamian, and Val Moghadam? Or does the phrase "at all a popular bent" allow you to make a reckless generalization like this without embarrassment?
> A book by for instance an Iranian fundamentalist will never, ever be
> translated, no matter how well received it is by Iranians, except
> maybe by Yoshie.
Verso published the collected works of Osama bin Laden, you know.