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Salon.com October 9, 2001 Janelle Brown |
Film to watch as we engage in war Despite strict censorship and a paucity of funds, Middle Eastern cinema illuminates the political and personal lives of people we now battle or befriend in the region... |
Salon.com October 1, 2002 Charles Taylor |
"Not with anger ..." An international director stands up for Abbas Kiarostami, the Iranian master denied a visa for the New York Film Festival. |
Salon.com December 14, 2001 Andrew O'Hehir |
"Kandahar" A stark and beautiful film traces a Afghan woman's journey across a landscape we may never understand... |
Salon.com April 20, 2001 Stephanie Zacharek |
"The Circle" In Tehran, women can't smoke in public or even walk alone on the street. A beautiful Iranian film tells their story... |
Smithsonian March 2005 Afshin Molavi |
Letter From Iran The regime may inflame Washington, but young Iranians say they admire, of all places, America. |
Reason February 2006 Michael Young |
Persian Letters Three personal accounts of modern Iran: Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran, by Azadeh Moaveni... Even After All This Time: A Story of Love, Revolution, and Leaving Iran, by Afschineh Latifi... etc. |
Reason April 2002 Jesse Walker |
Soundbite: Dissent via Satellite Before the revolution of 1979, Zia Atabay was a successful pop singer in Iran. Now 60, he presides over National Iranian Television, a two-year-old, Los Angeles-based satellite TV station that broadcasts cultural and political programming to Iranians around the world... |
National Defense February 2014 Stephen A. Mackey |
Time to Make Key Decisions in Afghanistan As the United States enters its second decade in Afghanistan, it is wise to examine the nation's interests and use them to inform the path ahead. Nations do not have permanent friends and allies, only permanent interests. |