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In 1962, President Kennedy expanded an earlier trade embargo put in place by a predecessor, President Eisenhower, to a total economic blockade, which pushed the Cubans further in Moscow's direction.

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Socially, the Cuban revolution created an education system and health service that remain the envy of much of the neo-liberal world.

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I am an atheist and do not know the meaning of the 'religious pain' that is felt by believers of every cast when what they believe in is insulted.

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I am not insulted by billions of Christians, Muslims and Jews believing there is a God and praying to this nonexistent deity on a regular basis.

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It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.

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The Lumiere brothers first exhibited moving pictures in Paris in 1896. A year later, there was a private showing at the Yildiz palace in Istanbul.

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The cinematic language and interior destiny of each Iranian film-maker is different. The international influences on them vary from Rossellini to Fellini, Akira Kurosawa to Hou Hsiao-hsien, but there is a strong sense of solidarity.

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Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.

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There are, of course, deeply sincere people of religion in different parts of the world who genuinely fight on the side of the poor, but they are usually in conflict with organised religion themselves.

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I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.

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Biography

Nationality: Pakistani

Type: Historian

Born: October 21st, 1943

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