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Iran

Fuse Film Review: Jon Stewart’s “Rosewater” — A Film of Skill and Passion

Rosewater is a movie for the idealists, with the implied hope that a principled and conscientious mass media can give the new breed of technologically savvy activists a louder voice.

By: Betsy Sherman Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Captivity and Survival, Daily Show, Iran, Jason Jones, Jon Stewart, Maziar Bahari, Rosewater, Then They Came for Me: A Family’s Story of Love

Film Review: Jafar Panahi’s “Closed Curtain” — Another Valiant Film From Iran

Under relaxed house arrest, Iranian director Jafar Panahi bravely concedes that, at times during his incarceration, he’s worn down, tempted to end it all.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Closed Curtain, Iran, Jafar Panahi, The Circle, The White Balloon, This is Not a Film

Coming Attractions in Film: January 2010

By Justin Marble

By: Justin Marble Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Film Tagged: Abbas Kiorastami, Brattle Theatre, Film, Francois Traffaut, Harvard Film Archive, Iran, Judy Shepard-Kegl, Justin Marble, MFA, michael-haneke, Payman Haghani, Peter Bogdanovich, Reviews, Robert Altman, Sundance Shorts, The White Ribbon, The Wild Child

Azar Nafisi on Iran’s Static Sense of History

By Bill Marx In a recent World Books podcast I talk to Azar Nafisi, the author of the international bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran. In her new memoir, “Things I’ve Been Silent About,” Nafisi chronicles the trials and tribulations of about growing up in Iran, focusing on her volatile relationship with her difficult mother and […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: Azar-Nafisi, Books, Featured, Iran, Reading-Lolita-in-Tehran, Things-Ive-Been-Silent-About, World Books

Visual Arts: Reading the Prayer Book in Isfahan

Three weeks ago I attended Friday evening services at the main synagogue of Isfahan. I cannot remember the last time that I went to a kabbalat Shabbat service, but I cannot have gone much more often than once a decade for the past 40 years. By Gary Schwartz Isfahan, gate of synagogue on Felestin Square […]

By: Gary Schwartz Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Felestin-Square, Iran, Isfahan, Israel, Palestine, Schwartzlist, synagogue, Visual Arts

Cartoon Memoirist

Iranian expatriate Marjane Satrapi continues to expand the art of the comic book.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books Tagged: Graphic-Novels, Iran, Marjane-Satrapi, Milo Miles, Persepolis

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