Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Honeymoon in Tehran Honeymoon in Tehran Azadeh Moaveni Both a love story and a reporter's first draft of history, Honeymoon in Tehran is a stirring, trenchant, and deeply personal chronicle of two years in the maelstrom of Iranian life. In 2005, Azadeh M… OL13752268W
My Prison, My Home 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
Transit Tehran Young Iran And Its Inspirations 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
City of lies City of lies Ramita Navai "Rich, absorbing, and exotic, City of Lies travels up and down Vali Asr Street, Tehran's pulsing thoroughfare, from the lavish shopping malls of Tajrish through the smog that lingers over the alleywa… OL19984271W
The lonely war 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
My name is Mahtob My name is Mahtob Mahtob Mahmoody Two decades ago, Not Without My Daughter (a global phenomenon made into a film starring Sally Field) told of the daring escape of an American mother and her six-year-old child from an abusive and fan… OL20015397W
Leila's Secret Leila's Secret Kooshyar Karimi 281 pages ; 20 cm OL21097649W
Cultural Revolution in Iran 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 Etre moderne en Iran Fariba Adelkhah 266 p. ; 22 cm OL2186436W
Space, culture, and the youth in Iran Space, culture, and the youth in Iran Behnoosh Payvar "Using the case of Tehran's Artists' House, Space, Culture, and the Youth in Iran places the socio-political implications of Iran's social and cultural transformation in a local-global contex… OL22315332W
Things I've been silent about Things I've been silent about Azar Nafisi "In this stunning new book, Nafisi returns to Iran and her childhood to deliver an exquisite and moving portrait of a family's life, a life lived in thrall to Nafisi's powerful mother." - - Provided … OL24302552W