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<div id="eventtitle">Women Without Men</div>
<div id="eventtitle-2">by Shirin Neshat<br>
Friday - March 18, 2011<br>
7PM<br>
MIT, [<a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=32" target="_blank">32-141</a>]
(that's building 32 Room 141)<br>
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In her feature-film debut, renowned visual artist Shirin Neshat
offers an exquisitely crafted view of Iran in 1953, when a
British- and American-backed coup removed the democratically
elected government. Adapted from the novel by Iranian author
Shahrnush Parsipur, the film weaves together the stories of four
individual women during those traumatic days, whose experiences
are shaped by their faith and the social structures in place.</p>
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With a camera that floats effortlessly through the lives of the
women and the beautiful countryside of Iran, Neshat explores the
social, political, and psychological dimensions of her characters
as they meet in a metaphorical garden, where they can exist and
reflect while the complex intellectual and religious forces
shaping their world linger in the air around them.</p>
<div id="footer">Discussion with author of the novel Women Without
Men, Shahrnush Parsipur, to follow.</div>
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<div id="cosp">Cosponsored by <a
href="http://web.mit.edu/amnesty/www/about.htm" target="_blank">MIT
Amnesty International</a> and <a
href="http://web.mit.edu/tac/index.html" target="_blank">The
Technology and Culture Forum</a>.</div>
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