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Members of the Popular Mobilization units hold a position in the Al-Hayakel area on the eastern outskirts of Fallujah during a military operation conducted with government forces against Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group militants on September 10, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / HAIDAR MOHAMMED ALI)


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Palestinian paramedics carry a woman after Israeli security forces fired teargas and pepper spray in a street of the Muslim quarter in Jerusalem’s Old City during scuffles with Israeli riot police on September 15, 2015, as Palestinians and Israeli police clashed at Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound for a third straight day. (AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharbali)


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In this Feb. 7, 2012 file photo, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, left, shakes hands with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov after talks in Damascus, Syria. (AP Photo/Pool, File)


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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

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...