PBS/WGBH have published
a really lovely piece of writing by an anonymous "Arts Correspondent" via Tehran Bureau. The writer ruminates on Iranian society and the role of women, how things stay the same, how they are shifting, all painted in words on a multilayered canvas spanning cultures and eras (as per the headline: "Iranian Women and Wagner's Parsifal"), and moving with supreme grace from intimate personal perspectives, both first- and third-person, to the broader social picture.
The conclusion:
...beyond the reach of government oppression, women work to transform the many cultural contradictions of contemporary Iran into generosity and tolerance. The future of this country will have women at its heart and this is a fact.
The "
Iran" Facebook "public profile" page is worth following for the superior mix of material coming out of Tehran Bureau. I only wish more of their authors could post with a by-line instead of anonymously.
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