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3 Sept 2025 Conversations with Tyler Seamus Murphy on Photographing Patterns Across Cultures
“Maybe they’re afraid if they liberalize, it will collapse into some kind of chaos, or they don’t want to be the next Lebanon or the next Syria. I don’t know.”
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- 3 Sept 2025
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…I think in the case of Afghanistan, they’re traumatized. I think there is definitely a trauma. They’ve been at war for over 40 years. Even if you do meet people in Arlington or in DC, or wherever they’re carrying that with them. They’re dealing with family that are still there. This is going to have an effect on you. This is not an easy thing to deal with. Maybe that has something to do with it. In Iran, I suppose, is it the Iranians or is it the theocracy? I don’t know what’s holding it back. They’re not that separate ultimately. Iran is a difficult country to rule; it always has been. There’re so many different groups there, the Azerbaijanis. Maybe they’re afraid if they liberalize, it will collapse into some kind of chaos, or they don’t want to be the next Lebanon or the next Syria. I don’t know. Do they have much choice? I don’t know how much choice they have in the theocracy.…
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