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...marching for the revolution - only to watch as it is hijacked by Islamic fundamentalists. Satrapi herself tries on identities like costumes; first she is convinced she is a prophet and has regular consultations with God in her bedroom. Then, during the revolution, she demonstrates with her friends in the backyard, pretending to be Che Guevara. After the revolution is over, Satrapi listens as a family friend newly released from prison recounts how the nerves in the foot can be perfect torture receptacles. "My parents were so shocked that they forgot to spare me this experience," Satrapi writes...
...obsession with becoming God's new Prophet. Practically personifying her country's sacred-secular struggle, she would decree that their maid could eat at the table with them and that her father's Cadillac would be banned. While her parents demonstrated against the Shah, Satrapi would march around the backyard with her friends, pretending to be Che Guevara. Like Satrapi, I was nine when the Shah fell in 1979. That the so-called "Islamic Revolution" began as a populist revolt that included secular, left-wing socialists is just one of this book's many surprises for someone like myself...
...than they might have been before 9/11, but the arrival of hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops in the Gulf region, and the long-term occupation and reconstruction mission in Iraq, dramatically increases the number of targets of opportunity available to al-Qaeda and allied organizations in their own backyard. Pan-Arab anger at the U.S. invasion of Iraq will almost certainly have swelled the ranks of locals willing to be recruited by al-Qaeda, and whereas before 9/11 that might have meant a trip to a camp in Afghanistan, the new al-Qaeda is more likely to bring...
First-years were bewildered by the unusual liquid that appeared in their backyard yesterday...
Three years after the ribbon solidarity in the NCAA playoffs, Kleinfelder found herself mired in another controversy surrounding women’s sports, this time of her own making and in her own backyard...