Iranican

September2007

Persian Music: Think Different?

Recently I have been hearing Mohsen Namjoo’s name everywhere. Being the Persian music enthusiast that I am, and I’m talking REAL Persian music, not what comes out of LA! I read about him and started listening to his work. As weird and strange as his work is, I started linking[…]

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Iranians Depicted as Cockroaches by US Newspaper

In the early 1990s, prior to the Rwandan genocide, the minority Tutsi group in Rwanda were constantly called inyenzi, or cockroaches, by those who sought to destroy them. The strategy was to dehumanize the minority group, making it easier to inspire others to join in destroying the minority group, thus[…]

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