Since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the Islamic Republic has received scrutiny from the Western media. From films to books, all aim to uncover what lays behind the veil. “The Orient is the stage on which the whole East is confined. On this stage will appear the figures whose role it is to represent the larger whole from which they emenate,” said public intellectual Edward Said on how the West frames those that they don’t understand. We explore this mode of thinking with Iranian academic and film-maker.

This is a report by Aziff Azuddin.

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