With more than 10,000 religious shrines dotting Iran to mark where descendants of Shi'ite Islam's most revered imams are said to have been buried, many of them go unnoticed. But one of these so-called ...

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MARTIN GROVE interviews Marjane Satrapi, pictured, whose animated "Persepolis" is France's official entry for a foreign language Academy Award and might vie with "Ratatouille" for best animated ...

You can tell when it’s that day. Tehran, capital of Iran, is not it’s usual. The place is buzzing, and the streets are packed; all sorts of vehicles fill up the roads and men in red or blue football ...

When Marjane Satrapi was a young girl in Iran, there were two things she most looked forward to: shaving her legs, and becoming the last prophet in the galaxy. Now, she can add winning an Oscar to her ...

Animated movies have never seen a heroine quite like Marjane in "Persepolis." Sure, she's spunky and resourceful, cute as a button at age 9, and possessing grace and beauty as an adult. But she's also ...

Persepolis remains one of the great graphic novels of all time and one of the best movie adaptations of a comic book. Created by Iranian expat French cartoonist, now movie director Marjane Satrapi, it ...

“Persepolis,” Marjane Satrapi’s award-winning autobiographical graphic novel, opens with a class photo of a row of young girls wearing identical black headscarves. “This is me when I was 10 years old, ...