About the Author
Cyrus Farivar
سیروس فریور
English: [suh-ROOS FAR-ih-var]
Persian: [see-ROOS-eh fàr-ee-VÀR]
Freelance Technology Journalist
Freelance Radio Reporter/Producer
Author, "The Internet of Elsewhere"
cfarivar [at] cfarivar [dot] org
Current location: Bonn, GermanyTwitter
Blogs Archive
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GoDaddy renewed Hoder.com for one year “as a courtesy”
Posted on November 4, 2009 | 3 CommentsYesterday, on MetaFilter, readers figured out that Hoder.com was about to expire at the end of this month and they wanted to make sure that it stayed in Hossein Derakhshan’s name. Some had suggested that they wouldn’t allow the domain to be renewed until he... -
Hossein Derakhshan’s brother, Hamed, speaks out
Posted on November 2, 2009 | 27 CommentsYesterday was the one-year anniversary of the arrest of Hossein “Hoder” Derakhshan. I’ve been covering this issue on my blog and also for three media outlets: PRI’s The World, in a piece that aired on Wednesday, TVO’s Search Engine (in an episode airing tomorrow), and... -
Hossein Derakhshan’s father writes Ayatollah Larijani, head of Iran’s Judiciary
Posted on October 21, 2009 | 14 CommentsJust 10 days before the one-year anniversary of the arrest of Hossein Derakhshan, his father, Hassan Derakhshan, has written a letter to Ayatollah Larijani, the head of the Department of the Judiciary. The letter was published on the website of Salaam, a reformist newspaper today,... -
Interview with Antony Loewenstein on arrest of an Egyptian blogger
Posted on April 27, 2009 | 1 CommentEarlier this month, Egyptian blogger Abdel Rahman Faras was arrested in Cairo by Egyptian authorities. I checked in with Antony Loewenstein, author of The Blogging Revolution to check in to see what he could tell me about this. Our 12 minute conversation is here. -
RSF: Shock at death of blogger in Tehran prison
Posted on March 18, 2009 | 1 CommentReporters Without Borders: Reporters Without Borders said today it was deeply shocked at the death in a Tehran prison of blogger Omidreza Mirsayafi and called for the immediate opening of an investigation into the circumstances of the tragedy. His lawyer, Mohamed Ali Dadkhah, was informed... -
Ada Lovelace Day
Posted on January 6, 2009 | 1 Comment -
Hossein Derakhshan was really arrested
Posted on December 9, 2008 | 2 CommentsSanam Dolatshahi, an Iranian blogger now living in Florida, says that the arrest of Hossein Derakhshan has been confirmed by his family in Tehran. The arrest has also been confirmed by a friend of the family’s, as quoted in today’sThe Globe & Mail. To be... -
Was Hossein Derakhshan really arrested in Tehran?
Posted on November 18, 2008 | 8 CommentsIranian-Canadian blogger Hossein “Hoder” Derakhshan may or may not have been arrested recently in Tehran. One Iranian site, Jahan News, is reporting that he has been — citing “reliable sources” — and up until now, that’s all we have. And yet, UPI, the Jerusalem Post,... -
July 4: Cyrus on PRI’s The World
Posted on July 4, 2008 | 4 CommentsDear Friends, I’ve been informed that my radio piece on the new bill in the Iranian Parliament that would make “corrupt weblogs” punishable by death, will be airing today. It will be available on any of these stations (and their Internet streams): New York –... -
Hossein’s libel case
Posted on December 9, 2007 | No CommentsHossein asked me to blog about his libel case. I don’t have much to say about it, other than what Ethan Zuckerman has already said: I’m not in a position to argue the veracity of many of the criticisms of Derakhshan by Iranian bloggers –...
