Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran, Hardcover - Shahla Talebi

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DescriptionThe death of the Islamic Republic's revolutionary patriarch, Ayatollah Khomeini, the bitter denouement of the Iran-Iraq War, and the mar...

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Publisher: The New York Review of Books, IncAuthor(s): Chenxin JiangNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 227 x 19Cover type:...

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Publisher: Square EnixAuthor(s): Square EnixIllustration(s): 312 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 21...

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An eloquent ethnographic account of the beliefs and experiences of young, middle-class, urban Iranians who have grown up in the period since Iran's...

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