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Surviving the Islamic Revolution

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Jackson Hole, Wyo.-Marjane Satrapi was a child in Iran when the Islamic Revolution turned religious choices into state-mandated behaviors. Azar Nafisi was a college literature professor. They each survived the revolution by fleeing the country and writing about their experiences, Satrapi in the graphic novel, Persepolis, and Nafisi in the memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran....
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