The region has long attracted idealists, from the radical performers of Bread & Puppet in the seventies to the striving artisan farmers of the early two-thousands.
President Trump has both called for Iranians to rise up and oust the ruthless theocracy and then said that he's fully prepared to deal with a new religious leader.
Virginia Oldoini helped conceptualize and starred in more than four hundred portraits so experimental and expressive that they have drawn comparisons to works by Claude Cahun and Cindy Sherman.