Golshifteh Farahani Quotes
Exile is my power.
Gibbons, Fiachra. "Golshifteh Farahani: 'Exile is like death'." The Guardian, 6 Sep. 2012.
She was tried by the Puritan religious and civil court for heresy. She started with Bible Study classes in her home and drew a substantial following. The clergy at the time were threatened and outraged. It was one thing for a woman to teach Bible Study to other women, but to also have men with the women was too much. The decision of the court was that she was banished from the colony. John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, presiding, answered: "Say no more. The Court knows wherefore, and is satisfied." See {584754}. In 1987, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis pardoned Anne Hutchinson, revoking the order of banishment by Governor Winthrop 350 years earlier.
In the history of man, states, nations, and countries, have been a very recent development. Even in Afghanistan and some other parts of the world there is little understanding of, desire for, or tolerance of a modern state. Most of the world was that way not so long ago. Even empires were understood long before countries.
When the Jordanian Arab Army ejected the PLO who were trying to take over Jordan by force, they killed more Palestinians than the Israelis had killed in the entire conflict with the Palestinians. The PLO then went to Tunesia which had no army to defend against them.
Golshifteh Farahani is an Iranian actress. She has appeared in over 30 films, many of which have received international recognition. She was nominated for the Most Promising Actress Award for The Patience Stone at the 2014 Cesar Awards in France, and won the Best Actress Award for Boutique from the 26th Nantes Three Continents Festival (France). In recent years, she has had prominent roles in movies by well-known Iranian and international directors, including Asghar Farhadi, Bahman Ghobadi, Rasoul Mollagholipour, Jim Jarmusch, Ridley Scott, Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg.
