This newsletter will take you to Iran, in its vivid tastes and colors, far from the black of chadors. |
They paint the oil-on-canvas billboards women in chadors, Iranian soldiers at the war front, portraits of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini that are then plastered along Tehran's highways, main squares and boulevards. |
The advancing camera discloses that the black mass consists of women in chadors, bobbing in unruly rhythms. |
The physical presence of heavy, life-size garment bags evokes the figures of women concealed in chadors increasingly seen in Amer's native Egypt. |
Girls in pretty dresses and women in black chadors waved to the revolutionaries from the rooftops, egging them on to Colonel Qaddafi's compound. |
As the crowd wrangles and shoves, the woman forces her unheeding way through the faces and chadors and disappears off the bottom of the screen. |