Posted by Nabil Echchaibi on Tuesday, June 16, 2009
If you're trying to get some good on-the-ground reporting on the massive post-election protests in Iran, try The Independent's Robert Fisk in this article. Iranian bloggers and twitterers have been doing a brave and remarkable job covering these drastic events as they unfold in the streets of Tehran and Isfahan. It's rather amazing to see how Iranian students and other Moussavi's supporters are working around the massive media (old and new) blockade ordered by Ahmadinejad's embattled government. They're rerouting their sites and tweets through proxy servers and getting images and videos to larger publics like it's never been done before. Tehranbureau has become a good steady source of information about the protests and analysis of how the elections were rigged. You can also find some excellent blogging here in the US on Andrew Sullivan's The Daily Dish.
I was born and raised in Morocco. My research focuses on the intersections between Islam, Arab popular culture and the media. I'm currently an assistant professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Colorado-Boulder.