Washington Post:

But unlike earlier dissidents, for whom departure usually meant cutting themselves off from the political and social pulse of Iran, Memarian and his generation of exiles have maintained an active rapport with the homeland. Thanks to advances in technology that allow for more fluid virtual borders, they are often able to accomplish things that have become impossible in Iran.

For example, the censors of today’s Iran would never approve a book like “Sketches,” in which Ahmadinejad is lampooned as Pinnochio, a worker is shown hammering a false smile onto a man’s face, and a ballot box is depicted as a bloodied dove with its head chopped off. Each of the 40 cartoons, representing the work of seven artists, is accompanied by a short personal essay by a dissident, intellectual, activist or relative of someone the Iranian regime has imprisoned or killed. Topics range from freedom of expression to voting fraud to gender equality to minority rights.

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