Iranian Women By Nazar Nafisi And Anjali Satrapi

“The only way to deal with an unfree word, is be become so absolutely free, that just your existence is an act of rebellion” (Albert Camus). In Iran women, must wear veils to cover their faces and hide who they are. You don’t have a choice, your faced with a dilemma go by the rules and be stripped of your being or not “cover up” and be killed? Unfair? Inhumane? Well both of those are true, on buses women and men are separated but in cabs women get molested? Equality, a word that women in Iran don’t know the meaning of (Lolita in Tehran). In the city of Cairo, Egypt, citizens are feeling their country due to their homes not being safe any longer. Their own government, people they looked up to, spray tear gas upon them and balls of fire, FIRE,

Rebellion can bring people together in more ways than physically, but emotionally as well. Where women must, no choice, not a word about it, cover everything that make them “them” and rebellion can cost them their lives, women still do it. The women of Iran still wear makeup, they might be scared someone might see them but they do it, pain their nail, but wear gloves to cover it, they still do everything that women in other countries do but they just can’t do it publicly. Azar Nafisi states in lines 9-10, she pauses at the top of the stairs and puts on lacy gloves to cover her nail polished fingers. To make clear, women still get “dolled up” but they must cover their hard work and efforts before they walk outside. She ceases at the top of the stairs to cover her newly painted nails, just because men are distracted by it. This material validates that fact that women, still do what most women do but in secret, that is still rebellion doing something you want to do rather than doing something you are told to do. A place where u have no choices yet u still “bend the rules”. You must wear black socks, no other color because that’s what women are right, black and white? But in the graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi, she shows, a woman wear a pair of red socks rather than black. Did she get Punished?

Nothing can change on its own, if you want something changed you need to “be the change you want to see in the world” (Gandhi). People wanting to reclaim their country will be rebellious in more ways than secretly, they will do it publicly and not be scared to take a stand, they will call u out in front of everyone, EVERYONE. In the article, “Cairo: My City”, the citizens have a project was to save and reclaim “our country”. “we stood in the middle of the road and it was at that moment I become part of something more, the rebellion to get out country back. To exemplify, you should fight for what u believe in, and dreams can be thought but actions make change. Years later February first, they had a 360 degree turn, men women and children all around with smiles on their faces and the sun shining, a sign of happiness. Rebellion also can be thought as a bad