On December 8th, a state-run television channel in Iran triumphantly showed off the US drone that Iran claims to have captured. Chinese and Russian experts immediately asked Iran for access to inspect the drone. Iran’s capture of such a high technology aircraft quickly became a hot topic in the media, but Iranian reactions to this event have differed on social media outlets. Iranians have been...

The following article first appeared in The Wall Street Journal. To access it, please click HERE. If you want a good laugh, read the holiday card sent out by Saudi Ambassador to the United States and public relations genius Adel al-Jubeir. Citing a Quranic verse, he writes "Behold, the angels said: 'O Mary, God giveth thee glad tidings of a Word from Him: his name will be Christ Jesus,...

To view the original blog posted below, click here. 12/20/2011 Prison had never changed an idea... Subduing an idea had never delayed tomorrow. Militarists sentenced me last Wednesday to 2 years in prison (as if I’ll live all that period on a hunger strike)… They also fined me with 200 Egyptian pounds, I won’t pay it off because I don’t recognize this ruling from the...

Syrian blogger Razan Ghazzawi was arrested yesterday while trying to leave Syria via the Jordanian border. Razan was on her way to a conference in Amman about defending the freedom of the media in the Arab World when she was detained. Razan has a master’s degree in comparative literature from the University of Balamand in Lebanon, and she is the author of http://razanghazzawi.com/ where she...

Former Iranian dissident and member of CyberDissidents.org’s board, Ahmad Batebi wrote the following on his Facebook page: “Sources from Iran say that 'the greens’ [the Green Movement’s supporters] abstained from participating in the census. This is a new way to protest that creates a serious problem for the government because they didn’t expect it. Accordingly, the people replied to...