More on today's presidential election in Iran
Juan Cole directed me to this Al Jazeera/YouTube video on Iranian-Americans (and Iranian students in the USA) voting in the Iranian election:
What really struck me was the statement by the youngest man that the election was about "democracy and being a citizen of the world" as if they were the same thing. This strongly reminded me of the atmosphere that produced the democratic revolutions of the just pre-World War I period as described by Charles Kurzman in Democracy Denied 1905-1915. Iran, of course, had one of the revolutions in that transnational movement.
Update: photos of voters and leaders from the Big Picture. Clearly, sales of paint and posterboard have gone through the roof.
What really struck me was the statement by the youngest man that the election was about "democracy and being a citizen of the world" as if they were the same thing. This strongly reminded me of the atmosphere that produced the democratic revolutions of the just pre-World War I period as described by Charles Kurzman in Democracy Denied 1905-1915. Iran, of course, had one of the revolutions in that transnational movement.
Update: photos of voters and leaders from the Big Picture. Clearly, sales of paint and posterboard have gone through the roof.
Labels: books, Charles Kurzman, Democracy Denied, history of democracy, Iran, Middle East
posted by Steve Muhlberger at 10:46 AM
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