The lonely war

By Nazila Fathi

Subjects: Biography, Politics and government, Women, Women, biography, Iran, politics and government, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Middle class, Childhood and youth, Iran, social conditions, Women, iran, New York Times reviewed, Women journalists, Social conditions, History, Iran, history, Social change, Influence

Description: "As a nine-year-old Tehrani schoolgirl during the Iranian Revolution, Nazila Fathi watched her country change before her eyes. The revolutionaries-- most of them poor, uneducated, and radicalized-- seized jobs, housing, and positions of power, transforming Iranian society practically overnight. But this socioeconomic revolution had an unintended effect. As Fathi shows, the forces unleashed in 1979 inadvertently created a robust Iranian middle class, one that today hungers for more personal freedoms and a renewed relationship with the outside world"--