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This Street Art Spotlights Iran's Religious Oppression
The journalist featured in Jon Stewart's Rosewater is trying to let Americans know about the plight of the Bahai in Iran.
Journalist Maziar Bahari remembers being shown re-runs of Roots as a child growing up in Iran. For decades, Iran’s leaders have used the African American experience of slavery and racism as propaganda against the United States. Iran’s repressive government holds up New York City's Harlem as a prime example of America’s tyrannies, asking how a country that treats its citizens that way can dictate to the rest of the world on human rights.
Bahari, who was famously imprisoned by the Iran government in 2009 and depicted in Jon Stewart’s 2014 film Rosewater, is now taking aim at this pretense with a project that raises awareness in Harlem about Iran’s most oppressed minority.
Faison Firehouse Theatre, 6 Hancock PlaceRicky Lee Gordon
"We thought it would be interesting to take this narrative of the Iranian government and turn it on its head and highlight its hypocrisy," he says.
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This Street Art Spotlights Iran's Religious Oppression?
This Street Art Spotlights Iran's Religious Oppression
The journalist featured in Jon Stewart's Rosewater is trying to let Americans know about the plight of the Bahai in Iran.
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- Bahari was famously imprisoned by Iran, as depicted in the film Rosewater (Franco “The Great”. Custom Fuel Pizza, 2288 Frederick Douglass.)
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The Bahá'í have been persecuted since the unique religion developed in the 19th century. (Ricky Lee Gordon. Faison Firehouse Theatre, 6 Hancock Place.)
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Bahari says that activism and public pressure is needed in the United States and other countries to make sure human rights in Iran are not forgotten (Rone. Storefront Academy, 70 E 129th St.)
Journalist Maziar Bahari remembers being shown re-runs of Roots as a child growing up in Iran. For decades, Iran’s leaders have used the African American experience of slavery and racism as propaganda against the United States. Iran’s repressive government holds up New York City's Harlem as a prime example of America’s tyrannies, asking how a country that treats its citizens that way can dictate to the rest of the world on human rights.
Bahari, who was famously imprisoned by the Iran government in 2009 and depicted in Jon Stewart’s 2014 film Rosewater, is now taking aim at this pretense with a project that raises awareness in Harlem about Iran’s most oppressed minority.
Faison Firehouse Theatre, 6 Hancock PlaceRicky Lee Gordon
"We thought it would be interesting to take this narrative of the Iranian government and turn it on its head and highlight its hypocrisy," he says.
Continue reading at:
This Street Art Spotlights Iran's Religious Oppression?
