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Shirin Neshat Research Paper

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Born in Iran in 1957, Shirin Neshat has lived in America since 1974 and currently lives in New York City. As a visual feminist artist, Shirin Neshat works with the representation of Middle Eastern women with the use of black and white photographs. Due to the Iranian Revolution of 1979, Neshat was unable to visit her mother country until 1990. However, since 1996 Neshat is banned from ever entering Iran.
Neshat is the fourth of five children of wealthy parents, brought up in the religious town of Qazvin in north-western Iran. Neshat's father was a physician and her mother a homemaker. Neshat’s father encouraged each of his daughters to “be an individual, to take risks, to learn, to see the world", and he sent his daughters as well as his sons

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