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From the Ted Talk by Shirin Neshat: Art in exile
Unscramble the Blue Letters
I made this film because I felt it's important for it to sapek to the Westerners about our history as a country. That all of you seem to remember Iran after the Islamic Revolution. That Iran was once a secular society, and we had democracy, and this democracy was stolen from us by the American gveoenmnrt, by the British government. This film also speaks to the Iranian people in asking them to return to their history and look at themselves before they were so iizcsmliead — in the way we looked, in the way we played music, in the way we had intellectual life. And most of all, in the way that we fought for domcaercy. These are some of the shots actually from my film. These are some of the images of the coup. And we made this film in Casablanca, rirnaeetcg all the shots.
Open Cloze
I made this film because I felt it's important for it to _____ to the Westerners about our history as a country. That all of you seem to remember Iran after the Islamic Revolution. That Iran was once a secular society, and we had democracy, and this democracy was stolen from us by the American __________, by the British government. This film also speaks to the Iranian people in asking them to return to their history and look at themselves before they were so ___________ — in the way we looked, in the way we played music, in the way we had intellectual life. And most of all, in the way that we fought for _________. These are some of the shots actually from my film. These are some of the images of the coup. And we made this film in Casablanca, __________ all the shots.
Solution
- government
- recreating
- democracy
- islamicized
- speak
Original Text
I made this film because I felt it's important for it to speak to the Westerners about our history as a country. That all of you seem to remember Iran after the Islamic Revolution. That Iran was once a secular society, and we had democracy, and this democracy was stolen from us by the American government, by the British government. This film also speaks to the Iranian people in asking them to return to their history and look at themselves before they were so Islamicized — in the way we looked, in the way we played music, in the way we had intellectual life. And most of all, in the way that we fought for democracy. These are some of the shots actually from my film. These are some of the images of the coup. And we made this film in Casablanca, recreating all the shots.
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