Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
My Prison, My Home	Haleh Esfandiari	At the Ministry of Intelligence in Tehran, a man in a checkered shirt sits down in an easy chair. He removes several documents from his pocket and hands one to Haleh Esfandiari, a sixty-seven-year-ol…	OL15187573W
The Ayatollahs' Democracy	Hooman Majd	A New York Times best-selling author offers a personal, candid tour of the political and social landscape in Iran. Hooman Majd offers a dramatic perspective on a country with global ambitions, a…	OL15449803W
Political Islam, Iran, and the enlightenment	Ali Mirsepassi	"Ali Mirsepassi's book argues that the discourse of political Islam has strong connections to important and disturbing currents in Western philosophy and modern Western intellectual trends"-- "Ali M…	OL15489199W
Superstition as ideology in Iranian politics	ʻAlī Rāhnamā	A superstitious reading of the world based on religion may be harmless at a private level, yet employed as a political tool it can have more sinister implications. As this fascinating book by Ali Rah…	OL15521549W
Target Iran	Scott Ritter	The controversial former United Nations weapons inspector sets his sights on the White House's hyping of Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program. In Target Iran the bestselling author of War on Iraq o…	OL15857375W
Transit Tehran Young Iran And Its Inspirations	Malu Halasa	"Tehran is a city of contradictions. Its swollen population of fourteen million and upwards contains the religious, the irreligious and the simply indifferent. Located on a major fault line, it is ne…	OL17464575W
Evolving Iran	Barbara Ann J. Rieffer-Flanagan	"Evolving Iran presents an overview of how the politics and policy decisions in the Islamic Republic of Iran have developed since the 1979 revolution and how they are likely to evolve in the near fut…	OL19707600W
The U.S.-Soviet confrontation in Iran, 1945-1962	Kristen Blake	This book is a study of the origins, development, and end of the U.S.-Soviet Cold War rivalry in Iran from 1945 to 1962 and its influence on the political and economic development of the country. It …	OL19909187W
Manufactured crisis	Gareth Porter	"Based on eight years of covering the Iran nuclear issue and new research and interviews with participants, Porter reconstructs the history of Iran's nuclear program and shows how the United States a…	OL19976183W
The lonely war	Nazila Fathi	"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-- s…	OL19990854W
Cultural Revolution in Iran	Annabelle Sreberny,Massoumeh Torfeh	The Islamic Republic of Iran has entered its fourth decade, and the legacy of the Revolution it was founded upon continue to have a profound consequence on Iranian life. This book draws on the expert…	OL21122451W
Etre moderne en Iran	Fariba Adelkhah	266 p. ; 22 cm	OL2186436W
The formation of civil society in modern Iran	Melody Mohebi	"Drawing on in-depth elite interviews and documents, this book investigates how and why the Iranian reformists used the language and concept of civil society to enhance the reformists' positions of p…	OL23185634W
The Shah and the Ayatollah	Fereydoun Hoveyda	"Twenty-two years after Ayatollah Khomeini's ascent to power in Iran, many aspects of his 1979 Islamic revolution remain obscure - if not baffling. Scholars and experts in the West have offered the u…	OL2729906W
After Khomeini	Anoushiravan Ehteshami	This is the first analytical study of post-Khomeini Iran to look at crucial policy changes since 1979. Ehteshami argues that Iran is not the threat portrayed by the west, but is capable of emerging a…	OL3512102W
The Persian night	Amir Taheri	Who really rules Iran today? How are decisions made in a system that appears so chaotic? Is the current political structure doomed to conflict? This study of one of the most secretive regimes in the …	OL3788783W
The reign of the ayatollahs	Shaul Bakhash	Five years after the overthrow of the Pahlavi monarchy, Iran remains convulsed by political upheaval and embroiled in international conflict. Shock waves from the Iranian events have stirred unrest i…	OL4554437W
The Shah's last ride	William Shawcross	Chronicles the events leading to the fall of the last reigning monarch of the Peacock Thorne, detailing the excesses of his court, the rise of the Ayatollah, and his abdiction and life as refugee.	OL46528W
The turban for the crown	Said Amir Arjomand	The Iranian revolution still baffles most Western observers. Few considered the rise of theocracy in a modernized state possible, and fewer thought it might result from a popular revolution. Said A…	OL4969212W
Inside and out	Richard Queen	Presents an account of the experiences of the first American hostage to be freed from Iran due to his development of the disease multiple sclerosis.	OL6443756W