Oscar-Nominated Movie Is Marjane Satrapi's Life in Cartoon
Marjane Satrapi felt the complex story of her country, Iran, wasn't being told. She was compelled to write a memoir about growing up in Tehran during the Islamic revolution and show others that Iranians are not monsters. They are just people.
"When you call a whole country the axis of evil or fanatic terrorists or whatever ... after a while, people -- they forget that these people you are actually talking about are human beings," Satrapi said.
Though she refers to her story as simply a "life... Full Story
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