Ann Wroe

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865 appearances 15 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 21 Aug

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The Intelligence from The Economist · Quid game: challenges for South Korea’s president · 12 Jun 2026 podcast

She found herself increasingly ashamed at the life she was leading. matched

She had imbibed enough of the modesty and all the repressions of an Islamic State to feel extremely uncomfortable. matched

And so in the end, after five years, she decided she would have to go back to Iran. matched

And there is a picture of her in Persepolis looking extremely sad as she ties on her veil, looks to herself in the mirror, and thinks there go all my individual and social liberties. matched

The pictures are one of the reasons why Persepolis is such an attractive book. matched

Marjan Satrapi was an extremely good graphic artist. matched

She didn't like the word graphic for her books, she preferred to call them comic books. matched

But she had a very simple style of drawing, rather like woodcuts, and with just a few nicks of her pen, she matched

She could let the strongest emotions show through. matched

She wouldn't have minded writing these books, but she did feel that drawing was man's first language, even before words. matched

And therefore, if you really wanted to get something across, you had to use drawing and not writing. matched

It was hard to keep a fun face all the time though when writing about her country, and it did seem to get dark very frequently. matched

And in the most harrowing part of Persepolis, which is when she goes to a house of a friend of hers, a Jewish friend, called Neda. matched

The house has just been bombed by an Iraqi missile and she notices a turquoise bracelet in the rubber which was matched

Needers. matched

And as she looks at it she realizes it's still attached to something. matched

She doesn't look any more, but at that point even the drawings have to give out and there's a panel that's completely black. matched

The main point of her writing, though, in the end, had been to explain Iran to the West. matched

She felt this was extraordinarily important. matched

It seemed to her that America in particular just did not understand Iranians. matched

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