My Tehran Under Siege
Journalist Jason Rezaian, a frequent visitor to Iran, is the writer, executive producer, and narrator of the length documentary film on Iran called A World Between.
In a dispatch from Tehran, Jason Rezaian describes the police beatings, flaming garbage cans, and rising sense of despair that have turned his quiet neighborhood into a battleground.
Twitter Breaks Strike News
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Protesters in Iran have been using social media to spread the word-and now reports are trickling in that Mousavi is calling for a massive "Green Revolution" strike tomorrow.
Lights. Camera. Twitter? I learned recently Hollywood filmmaker Robert Luketic is using Twitter, the micro-blogging service that lets people post updates in 140 characters or less per message, from the set of his new feature film, Five K...
Leslie Sanchez is the author of Los Republicanos: Why Hispanics and Republicans Need Each Other and a CNN political contributor. She is a Republican strategist and former adviser to President George W. Bush. Sanchez is founder and CEO of Impacto Group LLC, a communications and market-research firm.
Twitterature
Isabel Wilkinson is an assistant editor at The Daily Beast.
Would you like to read Ulysses 140 characters at a time? Is a short story just too long? Then curl up with a BlackBerry and dive into Twitter Lit-micro novels, online book clubs, and (gasp) real books.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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