Robert Abel has published three novels and three collections of stories and numerous articles. His writing awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. In 1987, 1994 and 1997 he taught at universities in China. His most recent novel, Riding a Tiger, was published by Asia 2000 in Hong Kong. Visit his website for more details. (Photo by Qian Gu.)

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Friday 3 July 2009
(This report has been compiled through reports by twitter users in Iran and aboard, as well as contacts inside and outside Iran. Media outlets have been credit where used. As reports coming from Iran cannot be fully authenticated, if the report confirms something, at best it confirms that several reliable twitter sources agreed upon it.

Protests

1. Thousands of people gathered at Iran’s Beheshte Zahra Cemetery, along with other smaller cemeteries, to mourn