Culture of Iran

In 1595BC, the armies Hittities led by Mursili from Anatolia, now modern Turkey, attacked and conquered Babylon taking control of Babylonia. With no immediate king in place the Kassites, in 1531BC, took control of Babylonia. The Sealand Dynasty of 1732 to 1460BC coexisted at the same time along with the First Babylonian Dynasty. This dynasty was a separate dynasty in the far southern part of what was Sumer known as Sealand. It was ruled by native Akkadians who claim to be descendants of the…

revolutionary movement, who since a young age saw the horror of the war herself and got involved in the ideologies of the opposition side. The style and figurative language she utilizes to present this autobiography highlights the reality of wartime in Iran and describes society’s ways of living before and after the insurgency. This graphic novel depicts Satrapi’s autobiography with the peculiar angle of how war and revolution affected the lives of the Iranian population. In Persepolis, Satrapi…

Persepolis is a graphic novel that centers around the life of Marjane Satrapi. Satrapi’s memoir provides an insightful point of view on the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Marjane, a typical teenager, goes through the hardships of living through a war; her story shows the evolution of a young girl. The censorship of Persepolis is quite absurd; the graphic novel has the chance to relate to, encourage, and educate a child’s mind. Throughout the world many children go through hardships, in Satrapi’s…

into other languages and cultures through his influence. Such an example is described by Kasi Khushnawaz, a native of northern Pakistan, who is quoted in the book In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great (1997); “Still some of our [Kalish] words are the same as the [Greeks’], our music and dances too; we worship the same gods” (Michael Wood, In the Footsteps of Alexander). It is truly remarkable that Alexander was able leave such a long lasting impact on the Kalish culture. He must have been very…

Reflection The Revolution sets the scene of the story. Since it’s taking place during the Islamic Revolution the readers get an inside to the life of an Iranian during the time period. There’s a significant opportunity for connection to another culture because of how relative Marjane to a normal teen. She likes popular western things that a teen would such as music, fashion, and she likes to express herself. Because of this, she is easy to relate to. The similarities are recognized by the…

It was not until early 1800AD that the archaeological excavations in Israel, Jordan, Syria, Iran and Iraq along with translations of the clay tablets the discovery of the similarities between the myths from ancient Mesopotamia and those written in the Old Testament Bible such as Creation, Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve, the Great Flood and the Tower…

Marjane Satrapi’s coming of age graphic novel, Persepolis, tells the tale of her personal experience growing up and finding her identity during the Iranian Revolution. Satrapi demonstrates the effectiveness of graphic novels as historical documentation and expressing her struggles with identity. Satrapi proves that graphic novels are an extremely effective tool for historical documentation. The reason the pictures in Persepolis play an essential role in the explanation of the Iranian revolution…

Light is considered a key concept in Islamic culture, therefore, in Islamic art; a special place has been dedicated to it (Mahdavinejad, 2003: p. 30). Study the main sources in the field of Islamic Architecture of Iran, especially the available resources in the field of Iranian Islamic identity, in its general sense emphasize on the concepts, that light is one of the most important (Mahdavinejad et al., 2011). Light as a factor that makes the act of perception, has a central role in the visual…

The Neo-Assyrian Empire and Present Day ISIS: History Appears to Repeat Itself The Neo-Assyrian Empire lasted from 911 to 612 B.C.E., while ISIS is still in power today. Though these two Semitic governments are far apart in regards to time, they are eerily similar in their actions, strategies, and the makeup of their civilization. Northern Iraq and southeastern Turkey was where the Assyrian Empire encompassed, and ISIS is based in the Islamic state of Iraq and Greater Syria, with the largest…

nationalist discourse is constructed through the idioms of family and kinship is relevant to the examined nation-states’ projects. This theoretical insight ties in with George Paul Meiu’s conception of embodied ethno-sexualities as foregrounded in cultures of ‘sexual outlaws’ in the Indian Ocean. In this oceanic sphere, Ajantha Subramanian’s scholarship on maritime politicized geographies, particularly citizenship among fishermen, sheds light on the main socioeconomic activities of Hormuz’s…