This is a link to a short slide show sent to me from Saleh Ara, a young man who resides in Tehran. It depicts scenes, people, and activities in a place most of us in the west will never really see except as it is portrayed in American media. This little show puts a more human face on people that some of us know absolutely nothing about.
Ideal images of Tehran? Undoubtedly so. It just seems to me that a balance has to be made between what we imagine the "Evil" empire to look like and what it really looks like. It would be hoped they could do the same, but that isn't our responsibility. I don't believe change takes place while we sit back and wait for someone else to do it.
I can, in the end, control and change only two things in the world and they are the things I think and the things I do. Pretty simple, right?
Saleh Ara was born in Tehran in 1982. He is a university graduate and works as an agronomist. He is an amateur photographer and maintains a photoblog www.8pmdaily.com. He posts at, you guessed it, 8pm daily Tehran time.
