[lbo-talk] Marjane Satrapi: likes the West for the freedom to work, wanted Kerry to win

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Oct 23 13:18:23 PDT 2007


On Oct 23, 2007, at 4:03 PM, Blackmail wrote:


> Right before the Satrapi firestorm lit up the listserv, I posted
> that I'd
> just read Persepolis and loved it. Has anyone else read it? I think
> this
> could be an amazing movie not only because of the story, but also
> because
> Iran's on people's minds these days, for better or worse.

She talks about movie possib's in the interview I just posted. I'm looking forward to reading it myself.


> I'll repeat the question I asked when I last posted about this: can
> anyone
> recommend a good political history of Iran, post WWII?

I don't know the field, but there's a lot of useful info in Dabashi's.



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