Acclaimed Iranian French cartoonist and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi, a prominent advocate for women's rights and author of ...

Persepolis begins with the Revolution, when Marjane’s father, Ebi, tells his daughter why they took to the streets to fight: ...

Marjane Satrapi will be remembered for her eye-opening film Persepolis which transformed not only Westerners but also exiled Iranians’ understanding of Iran in a simple yet powerful way.

Iranian-French creator's career straddled comics and film ...

Family members said the author of the landmark comic book memoir ‘died of sadness’ after the death of her husband last year ...

France-based Iranian artist, animator and director Marjane Satrapi, best known for her Oscar-nominated 2007 biographical animated feature “Persepolis,” has died. She was 56. "Marjane Satrapi died of ...

As Iran prepares to bid farewell to its martyred leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, one of the defining moments reflecting his vision of the country’s cultural identity has once again come into ...

The French-Iranian filmmaker shed light on the untold lives of Iranian women following the 1979 Islamic Revolution. As the US ...

Satrapi's family told the Agence France-Presse news agency that the French Iranian graphic novelist "died of sadness" Sylvain Lefevre/Getty Marjane Satrapi, the author best known for the acclaimed ...

A committed advocate to furthering free speech and women's rights in her birth country, Satrapi lost her husband, Swedish ...