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“In newsreels or news-photos, the Arab is always shown in large numbers. No individuality, no personal characteristics or experiences. Most of the pictures represent mass rage and misery, or irrational (hence hopelessly eccentric) gestures. Lurking behind all of these images is the menace of jihad. Consequence: a fear that the Muslims (or Arabs) will take over the world.”
― Orientalism
― Orientalism
“I thought of the courage it had taken for those young people in Tehran to go out into the streets holding those simple placards—“Where is my vote?”—with the openness and simplicity of a child, only to be razed down by bullets.”
― Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran
― Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran
Parmis’s 2025 Year in Books
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