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Who Decides What Kids Can Read In School?

Posted 03.22.2013 | Parents
Read More: Marjane Satrapi, Conversation Starters, The Family Dinner Book, Huffington Post Table Talk, Chicago Public Schools, Teaching Kids About History, Banned Books, HuffPost Family Dinner Download, Persepolis, Table Talk, Screen Sense, Laurie David, The Family Dinner, Censorship, Parents News

This week's Family Dinner Table Talk, from HuffPost and The Family Dinner book: Marjane Satrapi’s acclaimed graphic novel, Persepolis, is her mem...

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Review: Chicken With Plums

Marshall Fine | Posted 10.14.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi, Movie Reviews, Vincent Paronnaud, Marshall Fine, Maria De Medeiros, Chicken With Plums, Mathieu Amalrick, Chicken With Plums Movie Review, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Movies, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Chicken with Plums, opening Friday in limited release, is a fascinating puzzle: at once a mordant comedy, a tale of unrequited love and a story of heart-breaking artistry.

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Persepolis Director Marjane Satrapi Goes Live Action

Ariston Anderson | Posted 04.11.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Emir Kusturica, Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud, Chicken With Plums, Kustendorf, Entertainment News
Ariston Anderson

Chicken with Plums, due out in the U.S. later this year, was co-written and directed with Satrapi's frequent collaborator Vincent Paronnaud. Less explicitly political than Persepolis, Plums tells the story of a man who dies over a lost love.

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TV Director In Tunisia Goes On Trial For Airing 'Persepolis'

Human Rights Watch | Posted 03.26.2012 | Home
Read More: Persepolis, Tunis, Human Rights, Tunisia, Persepolis Tunisia Trial, Home News
Human Rights Watch

A Tunis court announced that Nabil Karoui, director of Nessma TV, will go on trial for airing the French animated movie Persepolis, a disturbing turn for the nascent Tunisian democracy.

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Tunisian Trial On Persepolis Showing Ends In Chaos

Posted 11.17.2011 | Home
Read More: Video, Tunisia Trial Persepolis, Tunisia, Persepolis, Film, Movies, Tunisia Persepolis Trial, Home News

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA , The Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia — The trial in Tunisia over the broadcasting the animated Iranian film "Persepolis" ...

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Conservative Muslims Continue Fierce Protests Against TV Station

AP | BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA | Posted 12.14.2011 | World
Read More: Tunisia Tv, Persepolis, Tunisia Islamist Protests, Tunisia Salafist Protests, Tunisia, Tunisia Persepolis, Tunisia Revolution, Tunisia Elections, World News

TUNIS, Tunisia — A mob attacked the home of a Tunisian television station owner with firebombs on Friday, following protests against a film his ...

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How Comics Became Literature for Adults

Douglas Wolk | Posted 08.27.2011 | Books
Read More: Book Publishing, John Carter of Mars, John Carter, Comic Books, Graphic Novels, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, Censorship, Literature, American Literature, Censor, Comics Code Authority, Robert Crumb, Harvey Pekar, Persepolis, American Splendor, Crime Does Not Pay, Will Eisner, Books News
Douglas Wolk

Thanks to accidents of economics, flashes of artistic inspiration, and flukes of both government and culture, comics have really "grown up."

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The Persian Primer: How to Understand and Properly Make Fun of Iranian-Americans

Dr. Ali Binazir | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Shirin Ebadi, Funny in Farsi, Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi, Maz Jobrani, Iranian Stereotypes, Nasim Pedrad, Firoozeh Dumas, Iranian-Americans, Omid Kordestani, Roxana Saberi, Firouz Naderi, Reading Lolita in Tehran, Between Two Worlds, Iranian-American Stereotypes, Azar Nafisi, Comedy News
Dr. Ali Binazir

Who's making fun of Iranians? Nobody. Except for Iranians themselves. Most likely, this shortcoming stems from a lack of familiarity with the endearing quirks of Iranian culture that would lend themselves to proper parody.

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Top 10 Stepmothers In Literature

The Guardian | Sam Baker | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Stepmothers, Chekhov, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Sam Baker, Persepolis, Charles Dickens, Books, The Stepmothers' Support Group, Literature, Sense and Sensibility, Snow White, Books News

"Stepmothers get what can only be called a "bum rap" in literature. From Snow White and Cinderella to Tolstoy to Judy Blume, whenever fiction needs a ...

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Iranian Soccer Rivalry To Meet On US Soil

The Guardian | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Obama Iran, Tehran Derby, Iranian Soccer, Persepolis, Obama Iran Message, Iran, Persepolis v Esteghlal Tehran Derby, Esteghlal, Barack Obama, Sports, World News

For decades it has been a source of bitter rivalry among Iran's vast army of football fanatics. Now the Persepolis v Esteghlal Tehran derby, often a ...

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Iran in Persepolis: Good Versus Evil, Again

Hossein Derakhshan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Iran Bush, Persepolis, Iran, Academy Award Nominees, Animation, Nicolas Sarkozy, George W. Bush, Politics News
Hossein Derakhshan

The world of Persepolis is divided into two very separate groups: you are either with Marjane, or you are against her.This is not much different from Bush's and Sarkozy's official line on Iran.

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