A Good Combination of Context and Primary Readings
Posted by Richard on Saturday, 11 February 2006Been seeing a lot of copies of We Are Iran: The Persian Blogs by Nasrin Alavi getting handed out at Northern Voice 2006. I've had the book for a couple weeks now—the publisher, which is blogging, kindly sent me a review copy with a nice note. I'm halfway through the book now, and it's a nice combination of historical and cultural commentary from the author i.e. excerpts from Iranian weblogs written in Persian translated into English. In other words, so far a good combination of context and primary readings.
I'd love to see a lot more books that translate weblogs written in languages I can't read into English. Chinese would be the first language I'd push for, since I've long forgotten how to read the 200 or so characters learned in university, but excerpts of articles written in Brazilian Portuguese and Korean are languages I could see as being books I'd buy.
sxip in da hizzaus
dixs in the house!
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