openDemocracy has been shorlisted for the New Statesman New Media Awards in the category of "Contribution to civic society". Other candidates are My Society super star Not Apathetic,
Despite all the early polls indicating a Rafsanjani win there are some very strong signs especially in blogosphere that Moeen the reformist candidate may end up as the winner.
As
From Lawrence Lessig's blog: The countries marked in green are all the places where the Creative Commons exists locally. Yellow is where they are nearly there, and red
Today, two days before the vital and tight presidency race, the fans of Dr.Moin the pro reformist candidate captured many squares in Tehran. They distributed pictures and biography of
The polls will open in a few hours in Iran and "Reporters Without Borders have published":http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=14094 the awful reality
Driving around Tehran, you'll see Rafsanjani 'supporters' are everywhere. But things are not how they look like.
Many of these young boys and girls on the
As the whole world is watching to see the outcome of the election, we Iranians have to remember that, we have come a long way in our struggle for freedom.
Three great contributors go head-to-head with one another in Iran Scan this week. The first post is spurred by the arrival of actor-come-journalist Sean Penn in
Mohsen Rezai, former commander Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, pulled out of the elections today. It is probably an attempt to unify the hard-liner vote which is thought
Today's meeting of reformists in Tehran University's football field was wonderful. It was a bit too long, but it was almost full. Thousands of young men
This report from Addis Ababa on recent brutality in the Ethiopian capital "done in the name of democracy" came in late yesterday through Glenn Brigaldino (an oD reader
Radio Farda "reports":http://www.radiofarda.com/default.aspx that already 10 people from The Association of Writers in Iran (among them are Mr. Siffi, Mrs. Entesari, Mr.
