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A picture made available on September 14, 2015 shows Saudi-led coalition military vehicles driving through rocky terrain during the offensive against Houthis, on September 13, 2015. (EPA/STR)
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Women walk past a banner depicting the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, on November 17, 2013 in the southern Lebanese city of Nabatiyeh during a parade marking the 13th day of Ashura that commemorates the 7th-century killing of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Imam Hussein. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP/Getty Images)
Between the Ayatollah and the Marquis
Khomeini, de Sade, and Me By Abnousse Shalmani Grasset, 177 pages Paris, 2014 If we are to believe Abnousse Shalmani, being a woman is hard work even in Western democracies boasting of gender equality and human rights. It is even harder in contemporary Iran where a...Caption:
An Algerian man reads a local newspaper, En-Nahar, bearing a picture for the first time of former Algerian intelligence chief Gen. Mohamed Mediène, better known as Gen. Toufik, on the front cover in the capital, Algiers, on September 13, 2015, after Algerian leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika replaced his powerful intelligence chief with his deputy, Gen. Athmane “Bachir” Tartag. (AFP Photo/Farouk Batiche)