Invisible Trap (1979): A Utopian Representation of the Surveillance Society in the Second Pahlavi government by Nastaran Doregiraei, alireza sayyad

“…The Invisible Trap is a lesser-known film in Iran's pre-revolutionary cinema, which was made by the order of SAVAK security organization in 1979. Following the developments of the year of its production and the reluctance of its actors to talk about it, the film was forgotten and joined the list of abandoned films in the history of Iranian cinema. …”
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Domestic Violence : What’s love got to do with it? by Samir Al-Adawi, Sabah Al-Bahlani

“…To paint a blanket picture, as if there were a unitary ‘Arab character’, the collective identity of the family is arguably the central cultural patterning in the Middle East. …”
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