Daily Briefing April 2: Picassos and other veiled masterpieces in Iran
Archaeology and religions reporter Rossella Tercatin reports on art collection amassed by Queen Farah Pahlavi and a Passover Haggadah that examines influence of Egyptian culture
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Religion and archaeology correspondent Rossella Tercatin joins host Jessica Steinberg for today’s episode.
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Tercatin discusses the efforts of Queen Farah Phalavi, the third wife of the former Shah of Iran, who used her art degree and wealth from soaring oil prices before the Islamic revolution, to assemble an art collection of masterpieces for the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, now hidden for much of the last 47 years.
She also reports on a new Haggadah by Bar-Ilan University biblical scholar Prof. Joshua Berman that examines what the Torah and Haggadah tell us about Egypt and Egyptian culture, and their influence on the story of Passover and the Israelites’ Exodus from Egypt.
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For further reading:
One of the most inaccessible art collections in the world awaits liberation in Tehran
How the Exodus story subverts pharaonic texts to mock ancient Egypt
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