MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
By Golnza Esfandiari @ RFERL.org, May 10, with a tweeted video embedded
[....] Amateur video posted online showing Iranian schoolchildren dancing to a song by a U.S.-based underground rap singer has angered conservatives. The critics include a deputy speaker of parliament, Ali Motahari, who has said the schools' principals should be fired and the education minister held accountable.
Domestic media reported that the dancing appeared to have been part of recent Teachers' Day celebrations at schools across the country. In the clips, mostly divided classes of girls and boys dance to the hit song Gentleman by U.S.-based Sassan Heydari-Yafteh, who also goes by the names Sasy or Sasy Mankan. Sasy posted several of the videos on Instagram for his 2 million-plus followers and challenged Motahari to listen without dancing himself [....]
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Also women bicycling is banned as "haram: in bicycle-friendly Isfahan by Frud Bezhan @ RFERL.org, May 18
by artappraiser on Sat, 05/18/2019 - 10:14pm