Was there a failure here of the international media to guage Irans affairs and sentiment?
“The homogeneous picture of extreme belief where the majority of people believe in orthodox Islam which comes out of Iran is not true.” Yes! That is what fascinates me most ever since coming to the US. When I wrote about students reading Lolita in Tehran, I was accused of saying Western literature is great. That is not what I was saying – I was saying people in Iran are taking these texts and analysing and seeing them in their own way – in a way the West doesn’t. The homogeneous picture of extreme belief where the majority of people believe in orthodox Islam which comes out of Iran is not true. Iran is a country of different ethnic minorities and different religions. Many of the Muslim minorities have been oppressed by the regime. This is not Islam – this is a state using Islam for power and we have to break this myth. You’ve talked about and write about the importance of literature and culture in the fight for human rights and liberty in Iran and around the world. But is art, culture,
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