Lars Hvidbergs digitale hukommelse
Posted in Film og tv on aug 17th, 2007
DR1 sender onsdag den 22. august andet afsnit i serien Med slør og høje hæle, der denne gang tager os til Tehran. Dansk-irakeren Anja Al-Erhayem skal i seks programmer prøve at vise os sider af Mellemøsten, som vi ikke er vante til at se (dvs. noget der ikke har med terrorisme, religiøst vanvid og kvindeundertrykkelse [...]
Posted in Kultur on jun 1st, 2007
One of the things that surprised me in Iran was that even the people who were very critical of the government, also hated the movie 300. Many Iranians are very proud of their ancient Persian heritage, which they see as a highpoint in their culture – especially compared to what they have now. I haven’t [...]
Posted in Kultur on jun 1st, 2007
Global Voices today has an excellent interview with Danish researcher Caroline Nellemann, who has written her master thesis on the Iranian blogosphere. It is well worth a read, and I’m not only saying this because Caroline was my companion on my recent journey to Iran.
A little snippet from the interview:
I believe that blogs are a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on maj 12th, 2007
I’m making some experiments with my picasa-webfolder. Here’s a picture from my great trip to Iran. It’s from what is probably one of the most beautiful cities in the world, Esfahan:
Fra Iran Greatest…
Posted in Uncategorized on apr 30th, 2007
The times they are a-changing… as always. The Velvet Underground used to be the nastiest, sexiest and most scary music money could buy. But last week when I took the Air France Airbus home from Tehran, they played Femme Fatale on the speaker system, like it was just another piece by Vivaldi. Granted it’s among [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on apr 26th, 2007
Last week when we were in Iran, there was a rumor going round, that the police were going to crack down on girls not wearing their hejab modestly enough (lots of Iranian girls wear it only to the middle of the top of their head, with lots of hair – sometimes carefully coiffed – visible). [...]
Posted in Islam on apr 26th, 2007
Before I went to Iran, I was so tired of hearing about Islam all the time in Danish media. The debate on the Danes and the Muslims have been going on for almost ten years and have only intensified and intensified. Ever since the Cartoon Crises I had personally gotten more and more critical of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on apr 24th, 2007
On the other hand: When we actually got to the airport the dark clouds seemed to clear up.
It started badly enough: My companion was beginning to get worried about the lenght of her coat/manteu, which is supposed to go to below the knee (and be square and ugly and not show the female form in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on apr 23rd, 2007
Departure: We took the taxi to the station to get to the airport. The taxidriver was a big and burly man, most likely a from refugee from war-torn Ex-Jugoslavia, a Bosnian, Serb or Croat. He looked at our bags and asked us where we were going. When we said “Iran” he laughed out loud, surprised [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on apr 22nd, 2007
I’ve hardly gone off to Iran before the Danish debate on the Islamic headscarf runs amok. Danish MP and theologian Søren Krarup insists that in some ways the islamic headscraft can be compared to the nazi swastika in the sense that both are symbols of an totalitarian ideology. Not the best analogy I’ve seen and [...]
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