Marjane Satrapi is one of the most inspiring storytellers of our time. She is the embodiment of an artist who uses creativity to express her political views. Satrapi is best known as the French-Iranian graphic novelist whose best-selling books, Persepolis and Persepolis 2, were turned into a film of the same name. Persepolis is an autobiographic tale of Satrapi growing up in Tehran in a family with socialist beliefs just before the Iranian revolution. She came to Boston recently to discuss her life after the Persepolis phenomenon and Muslim women and identity.
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