{"id":859,"date":"2008-09-25T06:24:36","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T10:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=859"},"modified":"2008-09-25T06:24:36","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T10:24:36","slug":"reinventing-mehran-nasseri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2008\/09\/25\/reinventing-mehran-nasseri\/","title":{"rendered":"Reinventing Mehran Nasseri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/2004\/07\/07\/mehran-karimi-nasseri\/\">Mehran Nasseri<\/a>, the man famous for being unable to leave Charles de Gaulle airport, and later refusing to leave once the opportunity arose, has produced and published his own <strong>haunting <\/strong>memoirs.\u00a0\u00a0 And he has been subjected to many reconstructions of his life, but few of them balanced, or providing current context.<\/p>\n<p><em>Questions that remain unanswered<\/em> : is he mentally ill or not?\u00a0 If so, how?\u00a0 Who in particular does he correspond with?\u00a0 Now that he is living outside the airport: does he try to return?\u00a0 Does he have any <strong>money <\/strong>from the productions in which he has been involved &#8212; the Dreamworks\/Tom Hanks fim &#8220;<em>The Terminal<\/em>&#8220;, the sales of his memoirs?\u00a0 Does his <strong>lawyer<\/strong>, who both fought for his rights in court before his fame grew and helped sell his life story to DreamWorks, sit pretty on resources he himself will never enjoy?\u00a0 And if so, is it because he is unable or unwilling to enjoy them?\u00a0 Is the French government paying to put him up in his current halfway house?<\/p>\n<p>Rather than putting details below the fold, I&#8217;ve put up <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/reinventing-mehran-nasseri\/\">a short essay about Nasseri<\/a>.\u00a0 If you have any answers to these questions, or more questions, please leave them there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mehran Nasseri, the man famous for being unable to leave Charles de Gaulle airport, and later refusing to leave once the opportunity arose, has produced and published his own haunting memoirs.\u00a0\u00a0 And he has been subjected to many reconstructions of his life, but few of them balanced, or providing current context. Questions that remain unanswered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-dR","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}