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  • Katrina inspires Iranian director to stage “Uncle Tom's Cabin”

    01/02/2006 1:55:33 AM PST · by F14 Pilot · 4 replies · 574+ views
    Mehr News Agency ^ | 2006/01/02
    TEHRAN, Nov. 12 (MNA) -- Discrimination against racial minorities in housing and the slowness in delivering relief after the destructive Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and other parts of the U.S. South have inspired Iranian director Behruz Gharibpur to make plans to stage “Uncle Tom's Cabin” in Tehran in the upcoming year. Authored by American writer and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), “Uncle Tom's Cabin” (1852) is a forceful indictment of slavery and one of the most powerful novels of its kind in American literature. Gharibpur had dramatized “Uncle Tom's Cabin” before, and Qatreh Publications is to publish a book...