Tuesday, April 18, 2006

BUSES IN MASHHAD: A METAPHOR OF MUSLIM MACHISM


Girls in the back, boys in front. The bus becomes an effective metaphor of Iranian society. While we can hardly understand their system, more than a few women there find it fair and protecting. Other women shy their anger. In any case, for a foreigner, it is a contradicting note in the pentagram, absolutely asymmetric with such a gentle society.

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