News at Eleven: Over the past three decades, writers

who stayed in Iran have continued creating literature under censorship, the number of women writers has multiplied, and a huge body of criticism about writers living both inside and outside Iran has emerged. Many banned works, or works that are not put through the Bureau of Guidance for publication permission are embedded in blogs, accessible to the whole world, until the blogs are discovered and shut down--and then they are embedded in new blogs. [--Niloufar Talebi]

from IPS: Q&A: "Longing for the Past Yet Belonging to the Present"

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