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Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi Talks to Margaret Atwood About Reading The Handmaid’s Tale in an Iranian Prison

By Karl Vick and video by Andrew D. Johnson Narges Mohammadi picked up Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid ‘s Tale while in prison. The activist had been sentenced to 16 years for challenging Iran’s enforcement of what Mohammadi terms gender apartheid—a system of dress codes, sexual subjugation, and coercive control enforced, as in Atwood’s book, by […]