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Cinema: Persepolis hits the UK

In front | REVIEW
Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi (Photo: ©2007 PROKINO Filmverleih GmbH)

Released on 25 April in an English-dubbed version, a review of Franco-Iranian artist Marjane Satrapi's Oscar-nominated animation of a girl displaced in Vienna

by Jens Wiesner // 25/04/08

NEWS
Geert Wilders (Photo: ANS Online/ Flickr)

An Oscar for Geert Wilders please

'Fitna' the film means evil, European parliament has a fake birthday and ousted gay Iranians - it's your latest news from Brussels

by Pim de Kuijer // 14/03/08

FEATURE
Worker in Olkiuloto (Photo, Angela Steen)

Finland: Europe's newest nuclear plant

'I never get an answer when I ask Iran what they plan to do with the enriched uranium they produce,' EU foreign chief Javier Solana said on 30 January. While the Iranian president waits for the west, we take a Nordic diversion

by Angela Steen // 08/02/08

OPINION
Republican return? (Photo: Daniella Zalcman/ Flickr)

Republican return to the White House in 2009?

After seven years of waiting for an end to the Bush presidency, Europeans should not wait indefinitely in hope of redefining US interests

by Roberto Foa & Domenec Ruiz Devesa // 30/01/08

NEWS

Why the EU aims to liberalise postal services

Plus answers to the question 'how much do you get charged for making a bank transfer?' and more in our weekly newsbites from Brussels

by Fernando Navarro Sordo // 28/01/08

INVESTIGATION
Game of war (Picture: Menta Kibernes/ Flickr)

Czech and Polish missile shields as military targets?

Missile shields in Poland and the Czech Republic are military targets, according to Russia: if it cannot control its own airspace, Europe could become a global battleground

by Fernando Navarro Sordo // 23/05/07

ANALYSIS
'Life between conservative lines': Aqa Bozorg Theological School, Kashan, Isfahan Province, May 2007 (Soudeh/ Roozbeh/ Farhang/ Flickr)

Iranian conservatives: 'Unnecessary provocation'

The atmosphere from within Iran is increasingly hostile - president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s nuclear ambitions don't help

by Ulrich Schwerin // 22/05/07

ANALYSIS
It's not a cold war anymore (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Missiles in East Europe – for or against the EU?

Plans to build US missile sites force Europeans to reconsider their position

by Kai Ehlers // 07/03/07

ANALYSIS
Nuclear complex in Natanz, Iran (Photo: Hamed Saber/ Flickr)

Iran: Security Council deadline looms

February 21 is the United Nations deadline for Resolution 1737 for Iran to stop its uranium-enrichment programme

by James Fontanella-Khan // 19/02/07

Marjane Satrapi (Photo: Maria Ortiz)

Marjane Satrapi: 'the Iraq war was about nothing but oil'

We spoke to the Iranian graphic novelist, 37, in January, after she shot to fame with her black-and-white comic book ‘Persepolis’. It's currently hitting movie screens in its animated French version

by Inga Pietrusiska // 27/01/07

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Warm like hell…get over it. Light on Persepolis: prepare to read the first part of the essay on Marjane Satrapi. Her work recently became a movie and has been awarded at the Cannes Film Festival. Here you can find Marjane's brunch with cafebabel. Enjoy, Nat. Marjane Satrapi – new ...

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