Marjane Satrapi Dies at 56: Persepolis Becomes a State Affair in Paris, an Awkward Silence in Tehran

Germany

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Political Latin Europe · 5 of 15 countries

Berlin quotes Satrapi verbatim: "Every millimeter of forehead won was ten meters toward freedom"

Argentina

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Global South universal feminist · 4 of 15 countries

Buenos Aires reads Satrapi in universal key — as a voice that also speaks of Latin American dictatorships

Canada

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Ottawa reproduces the AP dispatch — standard coverage without Canadian particularism

China

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Editorial avoidance · 2 of 15 countries

Beijing keeps it minimal — SCMP treats Satrapi as cultural obituary, not as Iranian dissident

South Korea

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Seoul reads Satrapi as a figure of the global fight for women — full AP without censorship

United States

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Washington celebrates the dissident, the 2007 Cannes archive, and the post-Mahsa Amini denunciation

France

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Political Latin Europe · 5 of 15 countries

Paris claims Satrapi for the state, but has to dance around the Legion of Honor she rejected

Israel

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Editorial avoidance · 2 of 15 countries

Tel-Aviv keeps it brief — Haaretz runs a minimal, paywalled dispatch, almost by duty

Italy

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Political Latin Europe · 5 of 15 countries

Rome places her in the Cannes 2007 pantheon and remembers her refusal of the French decoration

Mexico

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Mexico City turns the obituary into a reading prescription: Persepolis as a tool for understanding the world

Pakistan

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Islamabad prints the Iranian regime critique without hedging — and frames France as a country that denies visas to artists

Netherlands

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Amsterdam returns to the Persepolis preface: "a whole nation cannot be condemned for the misdeeds of a few extremists"

United Kingdom

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London anchors the story in Oscars, Cannes, and Satrapi as a British icon of Iranian feminism

Sweden

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Stockholm mourns an artist familiar by marriage — Satrapi, widow of a Swede, gone "of sadness"

Turkey

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Istanbul measures the loss for the women of a plural Middle East — and the 2024 Asturias Prize as recognition