On 13 September 2022, Iranian police arrested twenty-two-year-old Masha Amini for not wearing her hijab in the prescribed manner. The police beat her severely; three days later she died from cerebral trauma. In response, under the banner of “Women, Life, Freedom,” Iranians protested Amini’s death, Iran’s systematic oppression of women, and the regime’s very existence. … Continue reading “What a Breath of Fresh Air!”: Doonesbury on Iran and the Veil.
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“An Experiment in Holy Fascism”: The Iranian Revolution Comes to Walden College
In November 1978, as protests against his regime escalated, the Shah of Iran instituted military rule and clamped down violently on street demonstrations. In an interview with The MacNeil/Lehrer Report, Shahriar Rouhani, an Iranian anti-Shah activist and a doctoral candidate in physics at Yale, described the situation in Iran as “a mere calm before the … Continue reading “An Experiment in Holy Fascism”: The Iranian Revolution Comes to Walden College
“Picking through the Rubble of Three Generations of U.S. Foreign Policy”: Carter’s “New Foundation” and Garry Trudeau’s Nonordinary Realities
In our last look at Doonesbury during the Carter years, we saw how Jimmy Carter’s fondness for political symbolism – initiatives like a “human rights award banquet” meant to bolster a new, rights-driven approach to foreign policy – played into Garry Trudeau’s takedown of the American political and cultural Establishment’s hypocritical support of the Shah … Continue reading “Picking through the Rubble of Three Generations of U.S. Foreign Policy”: Carter’s “New Foundation” and Garry Trudeau’s Nonordinary Realities
Interrogated, Brutalized, and Rarely Heard from Again: Doonesbury Goes to Iran.
Montreal Gazette, 26 January 1981. Thanks to Zan for the help getting this image. On 26 January 1981, the Montreal Gazette, the newspaper my family subscribed to, ran a front-page story about a comic strip that, at the time, I, like most young readers, had always skipped over on my way to Peanuts or B.C. … Continue reading Interrogated, Brutalized, and Rarely Heard from Again: Doonesbury Goes to Iran.
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