Iran Awakening by Shirin Ebadi is a memoir in which she outlines her own life and the life of women in Iran. Throughout the novel‚ her focus remains on the role of women in Iran. She paints a portrait of her own self‚ whose drive and courage never allowed her to be silenced. She speaks of her experiences as a woman in Iran before‚ during‚ and after the Revolution of 1979. Her story begins as a child‚ before the revolution. She grew up in a very liberal home. Both parents were very intellectual
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due to religious traditions colliding with the state. Shirin Ebadi‚ an Iranian lawyer and activist who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003‚ is a courageous‚ kind-hearted woman who was determined to help the people of her country gain their freedoms. Although Shirin Ebadi is widely known for her fight for the justice of women and children‚ a few critics have considered Ebadi’s efforts as small or limited in shaping reform; however‚ Ebadi fought her hardest for the freedom her people deserved
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Desmond Ashford SPEECHLESS Shirin Neshat is perhaps one of the best-known artists of the Iranian diaspora following the 1979 Revolution‚ which replaced a secular regime with an Islamic republic. Born in Qazvin‚ she left Iran at the age of sixteen to study in the United States; she received her BA‚ MA‚ and MFA from the University of California‚ Berkeley‚ before moving to New York. Neshat returned to the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1990 and much of what she saw and experienced informed
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Shirin Ebadi uses her novel Until We Are Free as an opening into a world that we could never imagine. A world where the freedom of speech is not a freedom given by the government but persecuted by the government. Where political activists and defenders of human rights are looked at as criminals. A world where she was once able to practice law as a judge and live securely in her home in Tehran with her loving husband and two daughters. However‚ Ebadi describes that this is no longer the case in Iran
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SHIRIN NESHAT Shirin Neshat is an Iranian Photographer and videographer born in 1974 who captures female and cultural/religious stereotypes in her works. Neshat’s work is that many of her images are endowed with a sense of empowerment. Her photographs include - Hands holding hands‚ forming a sense of solidarity‚ women in the possession of weapons‚ subverting traditional notions of gender roles and power. In the B&W photograph “Faceless” from the 1994 “Women of Allah” series Neshat can be seen wearing
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target audience. Consider how this artist’s work is available‚ where and by whom Shirin Neshat’s works are intended for a variety of audiences‚ however‚ the ones that I will discuss are the Western artists‚ male and female across the world‚ and women of any geographical region. Since Shirin Neshat’s works are extremely confrontational and goes against the government‚ her works are to be hidden from Iran. Therefore‚ Shirin Neshat’s works are displayed to other parts of the world‚ including the West.
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Short essay Wangechi Mutu and Shirin Neshat‚ are two powerful female artists with strong motives and messages behind their artworks. Even though these two women share the same message‚ they have very divergent styles of converting their message into art. Shirin Neshat’s powerful photographs and video installations illuminate the gender and cultural conflicts of her native Iran‚ she published a series of artworks called Women of Allah that overall broke every stereotype based on women‚ the artwork
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The art theorist W.J.T. Mitchell has argued that “Pictures want equal rights with language‚ not to be turned into a language (82).” Indeed‚ picture has an ability to make issues of the world become visible in a sort of photochemical language. In Shirin Neshat’s Rebellious Silence‚ which is one of the photographs of her Women of Allah series‚ she depicted a portrait of a typical Muslim woman who is veiled and armed. The woman is holding a rifle‚ and the long barrel bisects the portrait perpendicularly
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that the artist was depicting a non-American culture through this woman in her clothes and the writing. The fact that the image is all black and white also suggests a very solemn mood. According to The Signs Journal‚ the artist of this painting‚ Shirin Neshat‚ was born in Iran‚ moved to the US when she was 17 to complete her education but was banned from returning to her country due to the Islamic Revolution. Rebellious Silence is a part of a larger group of pictures‚ which are all pictures of
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Kylee Titensor CE Art History Ms. Huss May 18‚ 2015 Shirin Neshat Shirin Neshat‚ an Iranian women‚ was born on March 26‚ 1957 in a small city Qazvin‚ Iran. She is known for her work in film‚ video‚ and photography‚ and has devoted much of her work to issues concerning gender roles in post-revolutionary Islamic society. She embraced feminism at an early age‚ encouraged by her father‚ who insisted that his daughters have the same access as anyone else when it came to education‚ travel‚ and life experiences
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