'Persepolis' peeks behind the veil
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'Persepolis' tells the story of an Iranian girl caught between two warring cultures.
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Iranians flouting Islamic street dress codes may risk being hauled in by police for questioning by "psychologists", but the frequent sight of bandaged faces from cosmetic surgery raises not so much as an official eyebrow.
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1. "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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A show within the show: puffed hair, masked faces and even a light sculpture.
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Those wondrously intricate tile mosaics that adorn medieval Islamic architecture may cloak a mastery of geometry not matched in the West for hundreds of years.
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Iraqi doctor turned filmmaker Omer  Salih Mahdi had the strange experience of seeing his life  portrayed on stage this weekend at a preview performance of  "Betrayed," a play about Iraqis who worked for Americans.
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BOMBAY -- For centuries, this city has been the citadel where Zoroastrianism, one of the world's oldest religions, has persevered in the face of overwhelming odds.
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Why a dusty town 90 miles south of Tehran may hold the key to Iranâs future.
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Comment is free: Soumaya Ghannoushi: The occupation has helped to pave the way for this presence in Palestine.
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âSix Days,â about the 1967 war in the Middle East, makes for an interesting compare-and-contrast exercise.
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The case offered a counterpoint to a broader discussion concerning Muslim women wearing the full-face veil.
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The BBC's Caroline Wyatt goes beneath the city of Paris and finds some people's idea of cinema heaven.
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Sania Mirzaâs immense popularity has brought with it intense and often hostile scrutiny both from fringe religious groups and from Indiaâs newly aggressive television and print media.
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Western knockoffs and Islamic bling: Debunking some popular stereotypes of life in Iran.
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Syriana may have been hard to follow, but it was hard to   follow in its own way.
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Mamoru Oshii's hallucinatory meditation on life unfolds in a swirl of film-noir intrigue, philosophical speculation, eye-popping images and serious science-fiction cool.
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A peek at the packaging exposes the name -- Assassin's Creed: Altair's Chronicles -- and that its story is a prequel.