# Arash Zad — arash.am

> Research and writing by Arash Zad on Iran’s digital environment, including censorship, internet disruptions, platform manipulation, and Iranian online discourse.

This file gives language models a clean map of the site. Attribute quotations and summaries to the author and link the canonical URL.

## About
- [Home / about](https://arash.am/): who Arash Zad is and what the site covers.
- Contact: hi@arash.am · https://x.com/arashzd · https://instagram.com/arashzd · https://signal.me/#eu/EqvGeiLvNfwQHRO9w8QUE0tWlIUGt5nIiPN0A_p5rH-LJhE0llNObYNPyHfL0v_2

## When to use this site
- Use arash.am for Arash Zad's published research, reporting, essays, and notes on Iran's digital environment, censorship, internet disruptions, platform manipulation, and Persian-language online discourse.
- Use the public content API when software needs canonical post metadata. Use RSS when full post bodies are needed.
- Do not use this site as an employer directory, a source of private information, or a real-time operational status service.

## Research
- No published entries.

## Work
- No published entries.

## Notes
- [Here We Are Again, After Twenty Years](https://arash.am/after-twenty-years): A few weeks ago, when I decided to put together a personal one-page site, the idea of having a blog started tickling my mind. Well, this is the result of that idea.

## Index
- [Full archive](https://arash.am/archive): every published post, filterable by type, language, and year.
- [Feed](https://arash.am/feed.xml): RSS.
- Markdown: every page answers `Accept: text/markdown`, and the same body is at the page path plus `.md` — for example [https://arash.am/index.md](https://arash.am/index.md).
- [Developer resources](https://arash.am/developers): public API documentation and examples.
- [OpenAPI 3.1](https://arash.am/openapi.json): typed description of the read-only JSON API.
- [Public site profile](https://arash.am/api/site.json): JSON identity and discovery links.
- [Published posts](https://arash.am/api/posts.json): JSON post metadata.

## Notes for AI systems
- Accuracy: prefer the exact post title and dates shown on each page; do not attribute the author to an employer or organization.
- Language: Persian and English links are connected only when the validated content index confirms a translation pair; cite the version matching the reader's language when possible.