Make new friends and help create world peace?

I was just reading an interesting interview with Marjane Satrapi about the movie version of Persepolis:    http://culturepulp.typepad.com/culturepulp/2008/01/the-culturepulp.html She talked about how one of her motivations for creating both the graphic novel and film versions of Persepolis was to personalize the people of Iran- to let the world know that they are real, individual people and not all America-hating fanatics. Satrapi said, “The second I have a friend in one country, that country cannot be my enemy any more.” If you would like to follow up on what she says, come to our event this Sunday (the 22nd, 1 p.m.) at the State Theatre  http://www.thestatetheatre.org/Events/fullevent.php?id=424 and meet some Penn State students from Iran. I’m sure that they too will have interesting, personal things to say about their country and people.