Her story begins as a child, before the revolution. She grew up in a very liberal home. Both parents were very intellectual. Her mother was forced to marry, therefore could not attend college and her father was a deputy minister working under the popular government of Prime Mister Mohammad Mossadegh. She grew up in a special household where her parents did not treat her or her brother different. They met their attention, affection, and discipline equally. She was raised thinking this was a perfectly normal environment when in reality, in most Iranian households it was the male children that enjoyed an exalted status, female relatives spoiled them, and their rebellion was overlooked or praised. As children grew older the boys’ privileges expanded while the girls’ lessened so they remained “honorable and well-bred”.…
girl facing intrusion on her homeland is told. The book is told through the eyes of Oona, who…
The specific topic of this book is the oppression of women. Its overall purpose is to understand the women behind the veils and why the Muslim women take up the hijab. The purpose is also to show how political, religious, and cultural factors shape the women’s lives. It is written for the average westerner because they have been exposed to more negative and one-sided views about the religion, however they are clueless about what really goes on in the religion of Islam, which concludes that there are many stereotypes and judgments on the subject. Brooks is probably used to this because she was raised in Australia as a Jew. Knowing about the Jewish background and how they were discriminated against could have been an important factor in the writing of Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women. New York Times reports that “She wanted to avoid the many judgments and assumptions, but add a valid account of the women in the Muslim world.”…
In the year of 1979 all that Marjane knew what it was like to not have to be forced into wearing a veil. Before the Islamic Revolution she was able to attend a a French Non-Religious school where girls and boys were allowed to study and play together. Unfortunately her world of carefree ness ended once the Islamic government decided to change their ways and force others to conform to their religious beliefs of what is right and wrong. Marjanne was raised by two very independent and brilliant parents who were upper middle class people. Her parents tried to raise her to believe that she could be anything that she wanted to be as long as she put her mind to it. Mr. Satrapi would give Marji books on communism and by Marz, because her father was a Marxist. Once the Islamic revolution took over Iran Marji had to wear the veil and was not allowed to go to school with her male friends because it is not of Islam for children of different sexes to be educated in a unisex school environment. Marjane 's mother Mrs. Satrapi was a protester and her and her husband believed in protesting for things that they did not believe in. Protesting was seen as demonstrations that meant bad to all who participated in them. Well Mrs. Satrapi, was photographed by a German photographer in the act of protesting one day against the Islamic 's beliefe. This then caused her to take safe precautionary actions like dying her hair, keeping her hair and face covered, and the wearing of dark sunglasses to prevent the police regime from arresting her. She did this…
“Coming of age” is a popular term for stories about children becoming adults. They illustrate to the children reading them that their life could be worse and imparts “worldy wisdom” and morals to them in order to inspire them to grow up. The Shabat by Marjane Satrapi is not one of these stories. This story, told as graphic fiction, reflects a naive girl’s exposure to war and the detrimental effect it has on her life. Eventually, this story becomes about the death of Marji’s innocence. Her life transforms from that of a typical teenage girl to a victim of war.…
The graphic novel Persepolis depicts the Iranian revolution from a child’s point-view through the eyes of the author Marjane Satrapi. Satrapi describes her experiences and actions while being raised during and after the Iranian revolution. The Iranian revolution was based strongly on the Islam faith and the establishment of an “Islamic Republic” (Crossroads and Cultures, 1008). After the year 1980 when the revolution had been resolved, women and girls were required to wear veils and were discriminated against as less privileged by men. They had to attend different schools then the boys and were seen as lower class citizens. Marji saw these changes as wrong and she thought that she could help to change these wrongdoings in her society. As Marji grew older she thought that becoming a prophet would benefit her in helping to solve women’s social issues and reestablish women as important and equal members of society. While following Marji through this novel it will be shown that she resists these negative aspects of the revolution and she fights and battles against the government’s attempted control over the faith and organizations of Iran.…
The objective of this research paper is to bring awareness among the Muslim population of the world concerning the wrong concepts regarding hijab. In this paper I will discuss the pressure being put by the western countries on the women wearing hijab across the globe. I would try to discuss the significance of hijab to a Muslim women and how theses controversies are a threat to their righteous beliefs. The research is important to bring awareness among the Muslims. They should present a united front against the banning of hijab in certain European countries like France, Germany, and Belgium. Therefore a research on this topic is particularly necessary to the Muslim community.…
The word hijab is usually referred to the headscarf that Muslim females wear in order to force others to judge them, not by their physical appearance but to evaluate them according to their personalities. However, many think that the word hijab applies only to Muslim female but in fact, this will be proven to be untrue. This essay will aim to discuss the origins of the hijab, why Muslim females are obligated or choose to wear it, and finally to prove the fact that the concept of hijab is not only applied to women but men as well.…
The short story “House of Obedience” by Assal follows the life of a young Egyptian girl named Nabila. Nabila is married off to a man at the age of fifteen and is very unhappy, she therefore runs away only to find herself living in the House of Obedience. The story opens in a court room where Nabila’s father gets exonerated for marrying Nabila off at such a young age. Nabila returns home to her parents but soon after learns that her court case has been reopened by her husband. She is taken away by a police officer, a soldier and a woman and is brought to the House of Obedience where her husband awaits her.…
The religion of Islam is an interesting subject. Other than Judaism, the religion of Islam is the oldest religion that we know of. It is based on some of the same fundamental processes as Judaism. A major area where the religion of Islam and the Qur’an are different from Judaism and from any culture today is the treatment of women. In the following essay I will be comparing and contrasting Muslim women and other women of different religious…
She speaks in great detail how the hijab is a lightning rod for ridicule by others who are less enlighten. “I get the whole gamut of strange looks, stares, and covert glances”. However, it is her source of freedom to disengage from the physical values press upon women within western society. “My appearance is not subjected to public scrutiny, my beauty, or perhaps lack of it, has been removed from…
The essay is centered around the idea that women who wear the hijab are in control of their…
B. Culture and the law in Islam Women Living Under Muslim Law. (Feb 95) http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a2h&AN=7620289&site=ehost-live…
The opening chapter of Persepolis describes the implementation of the veil policy in Iran. After the populist 1979 Islamic Revolution, during which the westernized monarch, called the Shah, is overthrown in favor of an Islamic Republic, the new government becomes increasingly religious and oppressive and makes it obligatory for women and girls to wear a veil that covers most of their faces. The girls at Marjanes school, including her friends, do not like the veil, particularly because they do not understand why they must wear it.…
The question of Hijab, Arab common name for what is imprecisely meant as veil, as well as gender issues, has been a sensitive case of perception of Islam, in European and Western counties. “The subject of women in Islam is in fact a burning issue and a source of polemics and mutual incomprehension” The question of Islamic veil is problematic. The Hijab is in fact a symbolic banner, both for Muslims, among Muslims so to speak, in establishing the boundaries between Muslims and non-Muslims. The difference is between a literalist attitude, of an acceptance of Arab tradition, noting that in some Islamic territories, the veil is a militant symbol, and a modernist, interpretative attitude, which leads to a symbolizing tendency.…
