Ramita Navai gives voice to ordinary Iranians forced to live extraordinary lives: the porn star, the aging socialite, the assassin and enemy of the state who ends up working for the Republic, the dutiful housewife who files for divorce, and ...
Yet, every war, revolution or upheaval produces huge numbers of them. Among other things, From Herat to Tehran tries to redress this imbalance. It is more than a novel.
The great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor and the daughter of ardent Marxists continues her description of growing up in Tehran--a country plagued by political upheaval and vast contradictions between public and private life.
Forty-six evocative vignettes offer the reader a glimpse into an Iran that is rarely portrayed in western literature.
Readers will find the story is one of the swift brutalities of war, and the suffering of civilians swept up in the maelstrom of fierce conflict.
Beginning with the death of the inscrutable Tehran Child who was her father, Dekel fuses memoir with extensive archival research to recover this astonishing story, with the help of travel companions and interlocutors including an Iranian ...
These books are testaments to the courage of Ali Dashti to document the situation in Iranian society so accurately. With his assertive voice, he underlined the short stories with the actual political and social changes in Iran.
The book revolves around the story of a six year old nonbinary child living in Tehran and aims to create a platform for dialogue about gender, sexual identity, human rights, and youth well-being in Iran.
... Pfanzelt , Kigali ; Phyllis Y. Quandt , Islamabad ; Marguerite O. Sanders , Tehran ; Nancy A. Shalett , San Salvador ; Margaret E. Tracey , London . Class 10 to Class 9 Suzanne Alexander , Oslo ; Chris- tine M. Brenkus , Addis Ababa ...
... Pfanzelt , Kigali ; Phyllis Y. Quandt , Islamabad ; Marguerite O. Sanders , Tehran ; Nancy A. Shalett , San Salvador ; Margaret E. Tracey , London . Class 10 to Class 9 Suzanne Alexander , Oslo ; Chris- tine M. Brenkus , Addis Ababa ...