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Awraq Magazine launch party. (Syrian Writers Association)


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Affleck’s Iran hostage drama Argo won the coveted Best Picture Oscar late Sunday. (ADRIAN SANCHEZ-GONZALEZ/AFP/Getty Images)


Iranian Argo, Coming Soon

Iranian Argo, Coming Soon

Ben Affleck’s Argo won the Oscar for Best Picture as expected. The film’s storyline builds on the real-life seizure of the US Embassy in Tehran by Iranian students in 1979 and the ensuing 444-day hostage crisis. Events unravel from the perspective of a CIA agent,...