Showcase: Iran, Beyond Stereotype

Paolo Woods arrived in Tehran in 1999 with a bag full of black-and-white film. Like many photojournalists before him, he headed to the former American embassy, where the hostage crisis had begun 20 years earlier; a landmark of Iran’s tumultuous political past. He was...

Why Twitter is the Most Popular Word of 2009

Of course Twitter is the most popular English word of the year. Yesterday, the Global Language Monitor declared the San Francisco-based micro-blogging site as the top English word of 2009. In a decade marked by the growth of most everything Internet-related, this...

Dissident: More sanctions would damage Iranian opposition

Berlin – Further international economic sanctions on Iran would damage the country’s pro-democracy movement and have no effect on the current regime, leading Iranian dissident Akbar Ganji said in Berlin Monday. Tension between Iran and the international...