Lessons from the women of Iran's 1979 'stolen' revolution

Jesse Eisenberg says community theater saved his life. Without it, we might not know him as Mark Zuckerberg and the social network. We might not have the zombie land as we know it now. But even Jesse Eisenberg knows that a lot of people just don't get musical theater. Musical theater is inherently very silly.

There's something so ridiculously earnest about it. On Cue with Tom Power, Jesse talks about his new film The Debut, starring Julianne Moore as a shy housewife-turned actor, and Paul Giamatti as a theater director who pushes her to her limits and beyond. Hear that conversation now on Cue with me, Tom Power. This is a CBC podcast. I'm Nala Ayat and this is Ideas.

In March 1979, tens of thousands of women around Iran took to the streets, just weeks after the revolution which overthrew the monarch Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi. They're chanting, we didn't have a revolution to go backwards. It all began on day one, as soon as Islamic forces declared victory in the revolution that overthrew the Shah. And that struggle was led

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