Somewhere between BusinessWeek and Newsweek

Surprise! My picture on Business Week is bigger than the new pope. Even though there is only one brief paragraph about me in its story on blogs.

However a casual interview that Stuart Hughes did with me while I was touring in the BBC headquarters in White City, London, can make up for the few words Business Week had about me and the situation in Iran.

By the way, on my brief and first visit to Paris, I met Chris Dickey, Paris Bureau Chief and Middle East Editor of the Newsweek, after about five years. He had interviewed me while he was last in Tehran during the peek of Khatami and reformist papers, while I was working for Apadana as their website editor and was writing that daily column about the Net in Asr-e Azadegan.

Chris is a real gentleman, in the European sense of word. I also noticed that he is really into gadgets, especially that little video camera that he uses to record small videos. With his modest beard, he looks like an optometrist, especially when he is looking into that little cute camera with his right eye and start talking to you as his interview subject.