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He did not offer to give his prize to fellow peace prize laureate Shirin Ebadi.
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Following widespread violence in the aftermath of the 2009 presidential election, Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi urged the U.N.
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Shirin Ebadi, Iran's Nobel-prize-winning campaigner for human rights, concedes that she would rather that the fight for women's rights did not involve interpreting musty religious texts.
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The other laureates to sign the letter are Rigoberta Menchu of Guatemala, Mairead Maguire of Ireland, South African Desmond Tutu, U.S. national Jody Williams, and Iran's Shirin Ebadi.
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Happily, Shirin Eskandani and Jennifer Caraluzzi, two OTSL Young Artists, livened things up as Mercedes and Frasquita, but it's a sad "Carmen" when the best moment is the Smugglers' Quintet.
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In "Shirin" (2009), another daring gambit that reflected his growing interest in female characters, about 100 actresses play audience members watching an unseen production of a tragic 12th-century epic, their expressions changing as the tale unfolds on the soundtrack.
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By Shirin Ebadiand Azadeh Moaveni.
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They include such luminaries as the 78-year-old Ebrahim Yazdi, the Islamic Republic's first foreign minister and now head of a banned liberal party, as well as numerous close relations of prominent dissidents, including a sister of Shirin Ebadi, a Nobel laureate and human-rights lawyer.
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