I'm Jadi. A 27 years old from Tehran / Iran. I blogged for years at my farsi weblog (www.jadi.net) but these days I'm FILTERED in my own country so I have to write here in english. It's shame but it is the situation !

I am keeping an eye on freedom of expression, censorship, internet filtering and ...

Email: jadijadi at gmail

Note: english IS NOT my native language. I'm not good at it. But I think writing in poor english is much more BETTER THAN not writing at all. But I'll be glad reciveing friendly editorial, spelling, grammer, ... comments and I'll fix and learn.

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View Article  The Role of the women in Iran
wow.. another set of questions... let's answer them too. I know I've answered many questions recently but this is also a nice set about women and their roles.


Hi Jadi,
[...]

1. What is the role of a woman for you ?
2. How does the islami discribe the role of a woman?
How would these prescribe Role transfered by the laws and by the society?
Is there something like a doublelive?
Are there differences between the countryside and the big citys?
(just a question which interesst me -not for the work- How important is the islam for young people today?)
3. How is her possition reference to the man?
Would she prefer or underprivileged?
If she would prefer, how?
If she would underprivilegegd or discriminat, how?
Are there some differences between what the legislator say and it the society handle it?
4. In which way woman could study and have a job?
Are there some jobs which they are not allowed to work and if yes, which?
5. How is the sexuallity role of a woman?
How important is it for a young woman to be a virgin before she get married?
Do they hold on this rule to be a virgin or search they ways to have sex before marriage?
6. Under which rules the woman have to suit? Do they avoid these laws and how?

O.k. for now thats are all of my questions. -I know, that are much, SORRY!!!-
[...]

Bye bye

Kneltzel


1. What is the role of a woman for you ?
The role of a woman? I think her role is the role of any human. She can choose her role. I look at her as an human :) Maybe I did not get the question.

2. How does the islami discribe the role of a woman?
How would these prescribe Role transfered by the laws and by the society?
Is there something like a doublelive?
Are there differences between the countryside and the big citys?
(just a question which interesst me -not for the work- How important is the islam for young people today?)

Um... difficult. Islamic beliefs are very diverse and different and strongly dependent on the interpretations. But I think in most of them women's most important role is to be good mothers, raise good children and be good wives. There people who believe in this interpretation and people who do not. I think in cities and among educated people it is more common to believe that a woman is more than a mother and more than a wife.

Our law is an Islamic one, so you can see this interpretation of Islam in it. In our law a husband can ask from the judge to order her wife not work outside the house. This law (that a woman can not work if her husband finds it against family's order) was accepted 100 years ago but nowadays more and more people believe that women has same rights as men. Maybe not the majority but the number is increasing, specially among the younger generation.

3. How is her possition reference to the man?
Would she prefer or underprivileged?
If she would prefer, how?
If she would underprivilegegd or discriminat, how?
Are there some differences between what the legislator say and it the society handle it?

You know. I can not answer this one. For me, she is equal but I can not tell about whole society. I thing in rural areas, women are less than men. We can see the same pattern in cities but with less density. For sure there are some discriminations. have a look at We-change.org, 1000000 signatures against discriminatory laws.


4. In which way woman could study and have a job?
Are there some jobs which they are not allowed to work and if yes, which?

At least 64% of university students are women :D but few of them have a chance to be among more important jobs. Leila (my wife) is an communication engineer and works for Nokia as an IP Planner. They are demanding their rights, they study well, enter the universities, live separately from their family and show to the others and the society that it is possible. But.. there are jobs in which girls can not enter. Some of them because of the society; such as truck driver, taxi driver, construction worker, .... Although there are some female drivers in Iran (even one truck driver) but as many other societies, their existence is strange for most of the people. There are also some jobs in which women are not allowed to work legally, among them I can mention military jobs (pilots, soldiers, ...), judge (because in the legistrator believes their brain is not suitable for this!) and waitress in a coffee shop !

5. How is the sexuallity role of a woman?
How important is it for a young woman to be a virgin before she get married?
Do they hold on this rule to be a virgin or search they ways to have sex before marriage?

In Islam, a women should obey his husband's orders and be ready for sex whenever he says. I think in society this depends to each person and each family.
Being a virgin is still important and in older times it was vital to be a virgin. The pattern might be changing as sex before marriage is increasing, specially if the boy and girl intended to marry each other. Have a look at Women Have Surgery to 'Restore' Virginity :) This is common but this also shows a trend toward pre marriage sex.


6. Under which rules the woman have to suit? Do they avoid these laws and how?
You mean their clothing ? If I am right have a look at my older article on Islamic Fashion Show In Islamic-Iran. If I did not get the meaning of suit, inform me :)

Important: there are MY ideas. To have a reliable answer you have to conduct a research about each question :D
View Article  Questions about weblogistan
Let's answer this email :) A nice collections of questions on blogging in Iran. After a long delay. Pardon me guys!


Hello Jadi

We are three students from a university in Denmark and we are writing a project about Iranian bloggers. We've been looking at blogsbyiranians.com and found your blog interesting. We hope that you will help us in our research by answering the few questions listed below. You don't necessarily have to answer all the questions, but any information that you can give us will be greatly appreciated.


How many visitors do your blog have on average?

Why did you begin to blog?

What are you hoping to achieve with your blog?

Do you read/write/comment blogs both in Persian and English?

Do you see blogging having any effect on the Iranian society today, if so which?

How do you think the blog culture in Iran will develop in the future?


Best regards

Mikkel, Lasse and Kristian


How many visitors do your blog have on average?
These days it is around 550 people each day. In previous month (Jan 2007) I had 16834.

Why did you begin to blog?
I started blogging something around 5 years ago; but in Farsi (Pesian). Something around 2 years ago my famous farsi weblog (called http://jadi.net) was filtered so I decided to start an English weblog and started Inside Iran to write about my country. Before the censorship I was writing about everything, from gay rights, from nuclear pollutions and from religion. But after government censored that site, I started to write specially about the freedom of expression in my country and digital security in farsi (http://freekeyboard.net). I also started this weblog to tell the world what is happening in my country and at last I continued my divers blogging in my general weblog (http://jadi.wordpress.com).

What are you hoping to achieve with your blog?
I am writing for human rights and specially Freedom Of Expression in the Internet. For sure I will not reach to this goal by a weblog but I am sure that 1 is better than none and ten is better than 1. I am sure that writing about these issues make people more and more sensitive about it and if people will know enough about freedom of expression, the world will be a better place to live in.

In my country, we do not have access to the media. All the media is controlled by the government; so the weblog and the Internet is our only hope to communicate. We have to defend this right.


Do you read/write/comment blogs both in Persian and English?
read write comment
Farsi (Persian) yes yes yes
English yes yes no :)


I do not comment that much in English weblog. I don't know why. Maybe I am not brave enough to write in English in others weblogs. I think I should start ;)

Do you see blogging having any effect on the Iranian society today, if so which?
Oh yes! In many circumstances the weblogs are the only source of the news. For example when police attacked the peaceful demonstration of the women in Tehran ( and ) the weblogs and specially the Kosoof.com's photos were the only source of the news.

Another example? There are weblogs dedicated to organizing and reporting on special movements / days (say students demonstration against President Ahmadinejad 16 azar 85 or Otobos1 which means TheBusOrganazation which is dedicated to the arrest of Mansour Osanlou, head of the executive committee of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company ).

How do you think the blog culture in Iran will develop in the future?
I am a researcher on this field. My job is researching on weblogs and educating people and organizations about it. The Weblogestan (farsi blogsphere) is professionalizing. After the first rush to writing weblogs, now the curve is slowing down but we see more and more professionals who write weblogs. At the begining years, the bloggers mostly were the younger generation who wanted to TALK and shout that "I AM HERE! I AM ALIVE" but in the recent years we see more and more journalists who use blogs as a media for their "unpublishable articles in the newspapers". We see more and more professors who use their blogs to write about their real beliefs and we see more and more minority who use weblog as a tool to show that they exist.
Have a QUESTION about IRAN ?
ask it via jadijadi@gmail.com
I'll answer in my weblog



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