Shirin Neshat, an Iranian women, was born on March 26, 1957 in a small city Qazvin, Iran. She is known for her work in film, video, and photography, and has devoted much of her work to issues concerning gender roles in post-revolutionary Islamic society. She embraced feminism at an early age, encouraged by her father, who insisted that his daughters have the same access as anyone else when it came to education, travel, and life experiences. At the age of seventeen, she was sent to the United States to complete her education. In 1979, the Islamic Revolution would prevent her from returning to her country of origin for twenty years. She attended the University of California and received a BA, then moved to New York, where she began working at the Storefront for art and Architecture. Even though Neshat had studied art in college, arriving in New York commenced a break from art-making until 1993, when she went back to Iran.…