Iran
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Author:Khosravi, ShahramSummary: -
Author:Ghaffari, RabeahSummary:In 1979, just before the Iranian Revolution, Bibi, wife of a retired judge, struggles to keep her family and entire househld together amidst their differing hopes for a new Iran.
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Author:Jahanbegloo, RaminSummary:Sorbonne-educated and the author of almost 30 books, Ramin Jahanbegloo, a philosopher of non-violence in the tradition of Tolstoy and Gandhi, was arrested and detained in Iran's notorious Evin prison in 2006.
- Author:Kurzman, CharlesSummary:
Through interviews and eyewitness accounts, declassified security documents and underground pamphlets, Kurzman documents the overwhelming sense of confusion that gripped pre-revolutionary Iran, and that characterizes major protest...
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Author:Yalfani, MehriSummary:Mehri Yalfani’s stories in The Street of Butterflies feature Iranian women dealing with displacement, cultural change, and struggles for survival and adaptation as immigrants in North America. At the same time, the challenges...
- Author:Sofer, DaliaSummary:
Wrongly accused of spying after the Iranian Revolution, Isaac Amin is tossed into prison, forcing his wife to desperately search for him.
- Author:Taheri, AmirSummary:
In this timely offering, Amir Taheri dissects the regime that has hijacked a nation for global "holy war" against the United States, revealing Iran's terror links, its nuclear capabilities, and how it can be defeated.
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Author:Summary:The Love Poems of Rumi, as translated by Philip Dunn in this gorgeous little book, maintain the same emotional significance with readers today as they did seven centuries ago when originally composed by the Persian poet.
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Author:Sharifirad, YadollahSummary:This is a gripping, page-turning memoir of a US-trained Iranian fighter pilot who flew in the Shah of Iran’s and the Ayatollah Khomeini’s air force. Sharifirad was shot down in the Iraqi-Iranian war in the early 1990s. Saved by a group...
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Author:Cooper, Andrew ScottSummary:Author Andrew Scott Cooper traces Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's life from childhood through the fall of Iran's Pahlavi dynasty. At once intimate and sweeping, The Fall of Heaven recreates in stunning detail the dramatic and final days of one...
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Author:Satrapi, MarjaneSummary:A memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic revolution.
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Author:Ebadi, ShirinSummary: -
Author:Sharareh, KamranSummary:From Persia to Tehr Angeles seeks to give a rich, rounded view of the foundations of Persian culture and traditions so that modern readers can know this heritage more intimately and also pick and choose which elements to make use of in...
- Author:Parsi, ArshamSummary:
To be gay in Iran means to live in the shadow of death. The country's harsh Islamic code of Lavat is used to execute gay men, and LGBT individuals who avoid execution are often subjected to severe lashings, torture and imprisonment. It...
