Airforce Amazons (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Aired in the US under the title A Death in Tehran , as part of the PBS Frontline series, the BBC film on Neda Agha Soltan was broadcast on BBC 2 yesterday and is available online for the next few days, until Tuesday Dec 1st. I recommend it. (Via Azarmehr .) Naj of Neo-Resistance places Neda’s death in a longer history of struggle. She writes: Iran’s female icon...
Financial Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sohrab Aarabi, a 19-year-old student, has joined Neda Agha-Soltan as a symbol of the human cost of the suppression of the post-election protests in June
ArchaeoTexture (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
Let's see ... Sarah Palin and her book? naaah ... Michaele Salahi and her celebrity aspirations? uh-uh ... I'll go with Neda Agha-Soltan. Who, you might ask? ... Exactly! It's been less than a month since Queen’s College, in Oxford, England, announced that it had established the “Neda Agha-Soltan Graduate Scholarship” for philosophy students...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
... al-Arabiyya TV. Iran Street in Yemen's capital Sana'a, meanwhile, has been renamed after Neda Agha Soltan, the young protester who was shot dead in June at the start of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's post-election crackdown in Iran – and whose dying moments were broadcast across the world. The spat reflects Yemeni fury over claims that Iran is backing the Zaydi "Houthi"...
