The Ladies' Secret Society: History of the Courageous Women of Iran, Paperback - Manda Zand Ervin

The Islamic Revolution of 1979 was an unmitigated disaster for the women of Iran. That fact is well known. What is less well-known and what Manda Z...

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

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

This volume compares the cinemas of Iran and Turkey in terms of the presence and absence of women on both sides of the camera. From a critical poin...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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

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From the author of A Witch in Time comes a magical story of family secrets, sacrifice and lost love set against the backdrop of a mysterious circus...

In this comprehensive survey of two hundred years of Iran's political history, Mehran Kamrava examines the rise and fall of the Qajar and Pahlavi d...

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...

Publisher: Pushkin PressAuthor(s): Deesha PhilyawNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 145 x 225 x 26Cover type: HardbackRedescoper...

Eighteen months after Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979, hundreds of thousands of the country's women participated in the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88) i...

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Publisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Kate VigursIllustration(s): 22 b-w illus. + 1 mapNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 1...

The inimitable Jenni Murray celebrates great women from around the world - rescuing some from obscurity and shining a new light on familiar names

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This book shows the development of women's status in the Mongol Empire from its original homeland in Mongolia up to the end of the Ilkhanate of Ira...

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From the author of A Witch in Time comes a magical story of family secrets, sacrifice and lost love set against the backdrop of a mysterious circus...