Iranian-Italian Actor Isabella Nefar on Resilience, Censorship and the Power of Storytelling

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Show notes:

1:30 background

3:30 My English Persian Kitchen

5:15 Sheherazade, narrator of One Thousand and One Nights

5:45 My English Persian Kitchen author Atoosa Sepehr’s efforts to address misconceptions about Iranians 

7:30 Reading Lolita in Tehran

9:45 choice of roles that challenge the stereotype about Iranians

10:10 Apple TV series Tehran

12:00 defenders of human rights

14:25 response to Iran’s formal and psychological censorship of creative community

16:45 Artist Soheila Sokhanvari

18:30 Women Life Freedom movement

21:00 global response to human rights’ violations in Iran

23:00 the meaning of justice in terms of accountability 

24:20 future projects

27:25 legacy / mark of her work 

28:55 creative process and connection with other creatives

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