Qatar has a knack for earning international headlines regularly and often negative ones. In the lead-up to the global football event, World Cup 2022, starting […]
“I Will One Day Live in Iran”: Exile and the Politics of Longing in Marjane Satrapi’s Work
Marjane Satrapi, the French-Iranian graphic novelist, filmmaker, and artist best known for Persepolis, has died at the age of 56. Her family told AFP that she “died of sadness” following the death of her husband, Swedish producer Mattias Ripa, in April last year. Later that month, messages posted on her Instagram account included the words: “For I lost the love of my life.” Satrapi’s death prompted tributes across France. President Emmanuel Macron praised her as “a great artist who turned her Iranian childhood into a universal tale,” while Yaël Braun-Pivet, president of the French National Assembly, described her work as “an act of freedom” that gave voice to the Iranian Revolution and championed women’s rights. Born in Rasht, Iran, in…
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