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About Maryam Omidi

Maryam Omidi has just come back from four months in Iran where as well as studying Persian literature and language, she edited articles at Iran News, trying her hardest to turn propaganda into more temperate, balanced writing (without being noticed). Before that she spent several years alternating between travelling and academia. She has a first class degree from the University of Manchester in Combined Studies; a bespoke degree which included Latin, literature, politics and philosophy. As a result, she knows a little about a lot and a lot about very little. This was followed by an MA in Issues in Modern Culture at UCL for which she received a distinction.

Articles by Maryam Omidi

Friday 22nd June

Walls of shame

Maryam Omidi, 22 June 2007

Maryam Omidi

While looking for articles yesterday morning to post on opennews (the side bar on the front page), I came across an article about the proposed US-Mexico border. As well as restricting the flow of illegal migration from the south, the rather ill-thought out and intrusive route of the wall will also dissect natural habitats, a university campus, a golf course and a national historic site.

Does this mean that students with lectures on the other side of the wall will have to show their passports? Or golfers whose balls have strayed into Mexican lands?