Studio 360 looks at the other Iran –- not the “rogue state,” but the nation with a 4,000-year-old cultural history and flourishing contemporary film, literature, and music. Kurt Andersen talks to graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi about her youth as an Iranian punk; her new animated film is an adaptation of her illustrated memoir "Persepolis." Writers Reza Aslan and Roya Hakakian read Persian poems that fly in the face of Iran’s oppressive government.
Marjane Satrapi’s animated self in Persepolis.
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Marjane Satrapi
As a child in Tehran, Marjane Satrapi had a rebellious streak: barely in her teens she was already buying Iron Maiden cassettes off the black market, and getting in hot water with the Guardians of the Revolution. Kurt talks to Satrapi about her film "Persepolis," ...
Political Poetry
Two émigré writers say that among the Iranian people, poets are the national heroes. But today’s Iranian artists struggle to express themselves in the face of government censorship. Reza Aslan is a religion scholar and wrote No God but God, a brief history of Islam ...
Getting Past the Censors
Goli Taraghi is a writer with an international reputation. Yet she found herself condemned in her home country for allegedly slipping sexual messages into a children’s story. We caught up with Taraghi in France, where she described the long, frustrating process of getting her work past the ...
Masters of Persian Music
Persian classical music goes back more than 2,000 years, predating Islam. Maybe that’s why it has had such a rocky relationship with the dominant religion over the years. Curtis Fox traces the renaissance of Persian classical music back to the Revolution of 1979, when nobody ...
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