Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth-Century Iran - Lior B. Sternfeld

DescriptionIran is home to the largest Jewish population in the Middle East, outside of Israel. At its peak in the twentieth century, the populatio...

Histories of Iran, as of the wider Middle East, have been dominated by the twin narratives of top-down modernization and methodological nationalism...

Reducere. "Between Two Worlds is an extraordinary story of how an innocent young woman got caught up in the current of political events and met individuals w...

DescriptionThis pioneering study examines a pivotal period in the history of Europe and the Near East. Spanning the ancient and medieval worlds, it...

This is the story of the real Argo and one of the six Americans who escaped the 1979 capture of the American Embassy in Iran. The author explains w...

The forty years of Iran's embattled position, commitment to a nuclear programme, and the speculations that the revolution is running down proving t...

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Reducere. Iran thundered onto the world stage in 1979 with an Islamic revolution that shook the world. Today that revolution has gone astray, a popular democ...

Reducere. The early histories of all the Baha'i communities of southern Iran are narrated here for the first time. Drawing on original sources including manu...

Reducere. In Revolutionary Iran, Michael Axworthy guides us through recent Iranian history from shortly before the 1979 Islamic revolution through the summer...

Reducere. Maryam Rostampour and Marziyeh Amirizadeh knew they were putting their lives on the line. Islamic laws in Iran forbade them from sharing their Chri...

Reducere. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - A hugely ambitious, "delightfully readable, genuinely informative" portrait (The New York Times) of the...

Considers the factors that have shaped Iran and the Iranian identity through history, providing a reinterpretation of the country's history and pol...

DescriptionA masterfully researched and compelling history of Iran from 1501 to 2009 This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventiona...

An epic history revealing how the US and Iran went from allies to adversaries over three hundred years

An important, urgently needed book--a hugely ambitious, illuminating portrait of the two-century long entwined history of Iran and America, and the...

Reducere. A writer investigates her family's secret history, uncovering a story that spans a century, two World Wars, and three generations. Hadley Freeman k...

DescriptionFrom encounters with Western powers in the nineteenth century through to a Constitutional Revolution at the beginning of the twentieth c...

In October 1971 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, held a celebration to commemorate the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire...

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Publisher: Edward Everett RootCollection: Studies in Irish Literature, Cinema and CulturePublication date: 2019Dimensions: 159 x 235 x 23Cover type...

In Western Europe the Golden Age of Islamic metalwork in Iran was (and is) generally considered to be the earlier period, and later metalwork was c...

I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage FoundationIt proposes a convincing contemporary answer answer to an ages-old mystery and conundrum...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestselling author of Alexander Hamilton, the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical, comes this definitive biogr...

Reducere. In that the clerical regime in Iran lacks the military capability to build advanced weaponry, it has resorted to the production of weapons and equi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Henry CorbinTranslator: Nancy PearsonAn analysis of interrelated themes in Iranian religion, including the angelology of Ma...

Reducere. There emerged in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a new Jewish elite, notes Moshe Idel, no longer made up of prophets, priests, kings, or rab...

From the Nuremberg Trials onwards, Jews figure prominently in international legal history. Yet ties between Jewish identity and legal thought rarel...

Reducere. Two brothers grow up on the Jewish streets of Warsaw. At the turn of the twentieth century, Adolphe leaves to seek work and start a family in Switz...

For many years, histories of the Holocaust focused on its perpetrators, and only recently have more scholars begun to consider in detail the experi...

Iran often appears in the media as a hostile and difficult country. But beneath the headlines there is a fascinating story of a nation of great int...

Reducere. Shirin Ebadi, laureata Premiului Nobel pentru pace (2003), avocata celor oprimat­i, care a stiut sa reziste in fat­a persecut­iilor politice din ta...

Reducere. Written by the late Dr. Hugh J. Schonfield. Re-edited and re-printed by Bruce R. Booker under permission of The Hugh & Helene Schonfield World Serv...

Two hundred years from the birth of the Bab, this volume offers a unique, wide-ranging exploration of the life and legacy of the Bab, the Babi comm...

Reducere. Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Edited by Christopher Nelson. Introduction by Kaveh Bassiri. ESSENTIAL VOICES series intends to bridge English-lang...

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Philip Larkin's Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse provoked controversy and dispute on first publication in 1973. It was also considere...

In this remarkable book, Shirin Ebadi, Iranian human rights lawyer and activist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, tells her extraordinary life story.

Reducere. Roots in Iran: Stories of Visionary Women is a collection of stories about fifteen remarkable women with roots in Iran. Divided into two sections, ...

Reducere. When Terence O'Donnell, an American who lived in Iran for fifteen years in the 1960s and 1970s, was asked what he was doing there, he replied, "The...

Reducere. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Jewish immigrants upended Protestant control of vaudeville and the silent film industry. This book rejec...

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"Deeply moving...A first-rate, highly readable intellectual history." -The Wall Street Journal The drama that shaped today's Iran, from the Revolut...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Blake AtwoodIllustration(s): 18 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 320Collection: InfrastructuresPubl...

The surprise election of Hasan Rouhani in 2013 has refocused attention on the dynamics between Islam and democracy in Iran after the hiatus of the ...

DescriptionIran has emerged from decades of isolation and struggle to become a leading, if not the pre-eminent, regional power. Iran projects its i...

Medieval theological ideas had an important influence on later philosophy. This book explores the legacy of these ideas and shows how key figures i...

Reducere. In this first-person memoir, Shahla Talebi remembers her years as a political prisoner in Iran.About author(s): Shahla Talebi was imprisoned in Ira...

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Reducere. Penguin's landmark poetry anthology Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, introduces readers to the most ...