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...arrived just in time to coincide with a season of political farce being performed in Lebanon's parliament, which - deadlocked between factions backed by Iran and by the U.S. - has been unable to replace the President, who stepped down last month. "Who needs a President?" said Maz Jobrani, an Iranian-American on the Axis of Evil roster, as he mocked the jaded Lebanese audience. "You've got the sea. You've got the mountains. You've got Miss Lebanon! A President would just mess things up. Tonight we party...
...Another Iranian-American student backed out after sending me several articles about Iranian academics based in the U.S. who had been arrested on visits to Tehran. One such academic, Haleh Esfandiari, on a visit to her elderly mother, was detained for eight months and charged with crimes against “national security.” The student told me he feared the same fate and worried about what would become of his family if he ever expressed his views about Iran’s theocratic regime...
...calls us - he requests that we not ask questions, but make statements, so that he can react to them in a form of dialogue. The academics are not shy. They make statements not only about the need for dialogue and reconciliation, but castigate the Iranian government for chilling press freedoms and for arresting Iranian-American scholars who were only trying to foster better relations between America and Iran. Throughout, Ahmadinejad is courtly, preternaturally calm, and fiercely articulate...
Such pressures reflect the system's growing obsession with security. Earlier this year, the system detained four Iranian-American academics for plotting to overthrow the regime through support for a civil society. (Authorities released one, Haleh Esfandiari, from prison on Aug. 21.) The message to Iranians was clear: Cut your ties with the outside world or face the consequences...
...just as slavery effaced regional differences among Africans, 9/11 lumped together widely disparate people: many Arab Americans are not Muslim, and many Muslim Americans (Iranian, South Asian, black) are not Arab. Pop culture, to put it mildly, has paid less attention to these nuances. Maz Jobrani, an Iranian-American Axis comic and actor, says he's often cast as "Unspecified Foreign Guy" and plays an Indian cabdriver on The Knights of Prosperity...