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These are improvisations: neither a manifesto nor a treatise because life is too complicated for either. Yet, I'm improvising as an Arab--Palestinian-- woman with a progressive point of view always under construction. I use these improvisations to think out loud, so never take any post as my last word on a subject but think of it as the beginning of a conversation.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

When Posing Nude Can Cost a Woman Her Homeland



Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani is banned from returning to her homeland after posing nude for a French magazine. Of course the lesson women are being taught here is that their bodies do not belong to them, but to the whole nation. If you own your body, you lose your nation.

Well, that's arguable better than being accused of "spreading corruption on earth" for that can cost you your head

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