Persepolis_Introduction_Part_I

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PERSEPOLIS

Introduction

What are your associations with the word IRAN?

  I Choose to Love You in Silence by Rumi (1207 - 1273)

I choose to love you in silence …

For in silence I find no rejection,

I choose to love you in loneliness …

For in loneliness no one owns you but me,

I choose to adore you from a distance …

For distance will shield me from pain,

I choose to kiss you in the wind …

For the wind is gentler than my lips,

I choose to hold you in my dreams …

For in my dreams, you have no end.

In your light I learn how to love.

In your beauty, how to make poems.

You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do,

and that sight becomes this art.

Your task is not to seek for love,

but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself

that you have built against it.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.                    Rumi

What does PERSEPOLIS mean? 

Marjane Satrapi (1969)

"If people are given the chance to experience life in more than one country, they will hate a little less. It's not a miracle potion, but little by little you can solve problems in the 'basement' of a country, not on the surface. That is why I wanted people in other countries to read Persepolis, to see that I grew up just as other children do.“

Be prepared to answer corresponding questions. 

Persepolis: Marjane Satrapi 

Movieweb interview (2010)

1. Is the story of Persepolis an autobiographical story?
2. What inspired Satrapi to make Persepolis?
3. How does Satrapi describe a humanistic message conveyed in Persepolis? 

Texts and Thoughts

Pages 60, 61

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Research the following topics. 

a. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his relationship with Western governments.

b. The Islamic Revolution. Historical background.

c. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and his ideology.

d. The War between Iran and Iraq.

e. Contemporary life in Iran.