June 15, 2017 · Field note

LOVE IN THE TIME OF THE INTERNET: CONNECTIONS WITH IRAN

Love in the time of Internet: Connections with Iran MY love affair with Iran seems to have been born with me, as I can always remember a time when I felt fond of Iran. Stories told when I was a child perhaps helped it. Seven years ago, a new friend entered my life and truly deposited so much knowledge about Iranian cul

LOVE IN THE TIME OF THE INTERNET: CONNECTIONS WITH IRAN
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Love
in the time of Internet: Connections with Iran
MY
love affair with Iran seems to have been born with me, as I can always remember
a time when I felt fond of Iran. Stories told when I was a child perhaps helped
it.
Seven
years ago, a new friend entered my life and truly deposited so much knowledge
about Iranian culture and I am truly grateful.
Lately
there have been a flurry of communications and I am grateful for the Internet
to facilitate this rapid communications with Iran
Just
one example:
I
was talking to a friend in southwestern part of Iran, when she mentioned the
name of a novel, which she had loved very much. She had read it in translation.
Sure enough within a week a copy arrived from Amazon.com.


A
fraction of the whole by Steve Toltz had been short listed for Man Booker
Prize. The author is Jewish and the setting is Australia, and there is a French
element to it. I couldn’t believe the coincidence! And the author now lives in
New York!
When
I began reading the book, which I plan to carry with me on this forthcoming trip
to Asia, I was fascinated with the various connections mentioned in the book,
ethos of an era in Australia that I was also a part of, and I found it
fascinating.
So
when another friend of mine from Teheran asked for a recommendation for a book to
read, I had no suggestion which book I should suggest and she sent me a cover
photo of the book in its Persian translation.

The
world is smaller; Internet has made it easier to communicate with Iran, the
most intelligent of all nations in the Middle East outside of Israel.

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We,
the Jews and Israelis, would be your best friends, I tell my Iranian friends.

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