In this brief interview with marjane satrapi, satrapi gives a quick overview of the story she captures in The Complete Persepolis. For example, she discusses the issue of the obligatory wearing of the veil for women. In one of the first pages of the book, there is a picture of the girls playing with their veils. Satrapi discusses how this picture was not an exaggeration, the girls really did take their veils off and play with them each chance they got, claiming that the wearing of the veil was not the choice of the Iranian people. I thought it was especially interesting how Satrapi talked about the apparent freedom of the press that exists in Iran now. I would need to do more research on this, because i interviewed an Iranian refugee about 2 years ago who told me that the press was still government controlled, and that you could criticize the government in the media. maybe this has changed, i don’t know. It was cool to hear Satrapi give a brief overview of what she was trying to capture in her book during the Islamic revolution. It sort of gives you a better insight into Satrapi’s approach.

ben