An Iranian Odyssey

Author : Gohar Kordi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Iranian Odyssey written by Gohar Kordi and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Iranian, now living in London, describes the harsh reality of moving when very young from a small Kurdish village to Teheran where, although blind, she was eventually to become the first woman to be admitted to Teheran University.

Author : Richard Nelson Frye
Publisher : Mazda Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greater Iran written by Richard Nelson Frye and published by Mazda Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These memoirs of a founder of Middle Eastern studies at U.S. institutions reveal more than the events of a life spent in intimate contact with many peoples of Eurasia. Although mainly concerned with "Greater Iran" (Iran/Persia, Afghanistan and Tajikistan), Richard Nelson Frye, Aga Khan professor of Iranian emeritus at Harvard University, describes changes which he witnessed there and elsewhere, making observations that are timely to understanding present-day relationships in the region. One of the first Western scholars to visit Central Asia after the death of Joseph Stalin, his knowledge of many languages enabled Frye to report on conditions in that hitherto little known region. In the course of subsequent trips to the USSR, the friendships he formed gave him unique insights about Soviet intellectuals concerned with the greater Iranian world. Life in Afghanistan and Persia (Iran) before the great changes that have transformed the area since the 1970s form a major part of this book. A much traveled Orientalist of the "old school," Frye's interaction with Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh, Sadruddin Aga Khan, Bobojon Gafurov, Fikri Seljuki, Roman Ghirshman, Henry Corbin, as well as Nathan Pusey of Harvard, and various shapers of US policy toward Iran and Iranian Studies, are especially noteworthy. Personal matters are not forgotten, since some readers will wish to know how a boy from a small Midwestern town became so enamored with Iran and Central Asia that he devoted his life to investigating and explaining their history and cultures. These memoirs are not only a record of the past, but also of recent visits to old haunts that have evoked comments about the future of the Middle East and Central Asia."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Rami Yelda
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1477202919
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Persian Odyssey written by Rami Yelda and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-07-18 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every good traveler plans his or her itinerary carefully to use time well and benefit as much as possible from the trip. I did not have an agenda, however. I wanted to travel Middle Eastern style, that is, with no prior planning. It would have been a nuisance to stick to a set timetable in a country that was, except for the language, entirely alien to me. I had decided to spend five weeks in Iran and had certain ideas as to what and whom I wanted to see, but my choices had to be la carte one bite at a time. I wanted to feel the pulse of the country by meeting and talking to as many people as possible. I knew that as a man traveling alone in a Moslem country I faced certain limitations. My quest had to be limited to interacting with men, with little exposure to women and their concerns.

Author : Laleh Bakhtiar
Publisher : Kazi Publications Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781930637184
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Helen of Tus: Her Odyssey from Idaho to Iran written by Laleh Bakhtiar and published by Kazi Publications Incorporated. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biography of the first American to marry an Iranian in the United States (1927) and go to Iran (1931).

Author : Elma Hovanessian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781903656389
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Life, Three Cultures written by Elma Hovanessian and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of memories of the author's life starting with the premature death of her father in 1936 when she was a child, through sweeter memories of her grandparents' home in New Julfa where she was immersed in their wonderfully uncomplicated lives. The memoir weaves through the family's hardships during WWII and Iran's occupation by the Allied Forces. The next decade coincides with the author's college years when political turmoil, police presence on university campuses and clashes with unarmed student demonstrators were frequent occurrences. It is a tale of her life in England - where she traveled as a student, visitor and temporary resident. And ultimately, it is about the United States where her family settled doesn in 1976, after leaving Iran at the peak of its prosperity, unaware of the fact that it would soon collapse, followed by the turmoil of renewed political conflicts. It is about the experience of establishing new roots, while holding on to the old, of gracefully embracing a new culture, while exploring new possibilities to maintain and cultivate ancient traditions

Author : Curtis Harnack
Publisher : Iowa State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813813363
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Persian Lions, Persian Lambs written by Curtis Harnack and published by Iowa State Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Payam Akhavan
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 1487002017
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of A Better World written by Payam Akhavan and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2017-09-09 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A work of memoir, history, and a call to action, the CBC Massey Lectures by internationally renowned UN prosecutor and scholar Payam Akhavan is a powerful and essential work on the major human rights struggles of our times. Renowned UN prosecutor and human rights scholar Payam Akhavan has encountered the grim realities of contemporary genocide throughout his life and career. He argues that deceptive utopias, political cynicism, and public apathy have given rise to major human rights abuses: from the religious persecution of Iranian Bahá’ís that shaped his personal life, to the horrors of ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia, the genocide in Rwanda, and the rise of contemporary phenomena such as the Islamic State. But he also reflects on the inspiring resilience of the human spirit and the reality of our inextricable interdependence to liberate us, whether from hateful ideologies that deny the humanity of others or an empty consumerist culture that worships greed and self-indulgence. A timely, essential, and passionate work of memoir and history, In Search of a Better World is a tour de force by an internationally renowned human rights lawyer.

Author : Dr. Euan Angus Ashley
Publisher : Celadon Books
ISBN 13 : 1250234972
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Genome Odyssey written by Dr. Euan Angus Ashley and published by Celadon Books. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Genome Odyssey, Dr. Euan Ashley, Stanford professor of medicine and genetics, brings the breakthroughs of precision medicine to vivid life through the real diagnostic journeys of his patients and the tireless efforts of his fellow doctors and scientists as they hunt to prevent, predict, and beat disease. Since the Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, the price of genome sequencing has dropped at a staggering rate. It’s as if the price of a Ferrari went from $350,000 to a mere forty cents. Through breakthroughs made by Dr. Ashley’s team at Stanford and other dedicated groups around the world, analyzing the human genome has decreased from a heroic multibillion dollar effort to a single clinical test costing less than $1,000. For the first time we have within our grasp the ability to predict our genetic future, to diagnose and prevent disease before it begins, and to decode what it really means to be human. In The Genome Odyssey, Dr. Ashley details the medicine behind genome sequencing with clarity and accessibility. More than that, with passion for his subject and compassion for his patients, he introduces readers to the dynamic group of researchers and doctor detectives who hunt for answers, and to the pioneering patients who open up their lives to the medical community during their search for diagnoses and cures. He describes how he led the team that was the first to analyze and interpret a complete human genome, how they broke genome speed records to diagnose and treat a newborn baby girl whose heart stopped five times on the first day of her life, and how they found a boy with tumors growing inside his heart and traced the cause to a missing piece of his genome. These patients inspire Dr. Ashley and his team as they work to expand the boundaries of our medical capabilities and to envision a future where genome sequencing is available for all, where medicine can be tailored to treat specific diseases and to decode pathogens like viruses at the genomic level, and where our medical system as we know it has been completely revolutionized.

Author : Jamake Highwater
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0064404374
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anpao written by Jamake Highwater and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1992-01-30 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anpao is young and Handsome and Brave -- a man any maiden would be proud to call her husband. Any maiden but Ko-Ko-Mik-e-is, that is, who calims she belongs to the Sun alone. And so Anpao sets off for the house of the Sun to ask permission to marry the woman he loves. But Anpao's journey is not an easy one. Before he can reach the Sun, Anapao must travel back in time to the dawn of the world. He must relive his own creation, venture through The World Beneath the World, and battle the many magical mystical creatures of Native American legends. For only by doing so can Anpao discover who he really is, and rove to the Sun why he alone is worthy of the fair Ko-komik-e-is

Author : Shokrollah Baravarian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733605168
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Iranian's Odyssey written by Shokrollah Baravarian and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography-Memoirs-Iran's History-Economy of Iran under The Shah-Iran Jews-Iranian in Exile-Migration-History of the Islamic Revolution in Iran