In The Rose Garden Of The Martyrs

Author : Christopher de Bellaigue
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007372817
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran written by Christopher de Bellaigue and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A superb, authoritatively written insider’s account of Iran, one of the most mysterious but significant and powerful nations in the world.

Author : Janet Hubbard-Brown
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438104510
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shirin Ebadi written by Janet Hubbard-Brown and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a lawyer, judge, lecturer, writer, and activist, Shirin Ebadi has spoken out in her country, Iran, as well as throughout the world. This is the story of an exceptional figure who has dedicated her life to fighting for basic human rights, especially those of women and children, within Iran and abroad.

Author : Janet Hubbard-Brown
Publisher : Infobase Learning
ISBN 13 : 1438147430
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shirin Ebadi, Champion for Human Rights in Iran written by Janet Hubbard-Brown and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2013 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Constance Jane Larson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Virgin of the Rose Garden by the Master of the Saint Lucy Legend written by Constance Jane Larson and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Julian Rice
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538137011
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abbas Kiarostami's Cinema of Life written by Julian Rice and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-09-11 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standing apart from celebrated Iranian ideals of war and martyrdom, revolutionary filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami was known as a man who praised life and celebrated it in all his works. Creating films for more than 40 years during times of unending war and political turmoil, Kiarostami promoted the Sufi tradition of seeing God as part of nature and the pre-Islamic Zoroastrian ideal of environmental protection. Kiarostami’s self-image as a citizen of the world, his renunciation of war, and his concern for the future of nature cement his importance within the art form of poetic cinema. Addressing Kiarostami’s illumination of humanity’s self-destructive tendencies, author Julian Rice presents a detailed analysis of twelve individual films, from Homework (1989) to Like Someone in Love (2012). Departing from concerns of spectatorship or film in general, Rice’s book portrays the human and spiritual core of Kiarostami. Connected to all other humans and to the earth we all inhabit, Kiarostami’s vision remains a powerful message for film scholars and peaceful people everywhere.

Author : Scott Peterson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781416597391
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Let the Swords Encircle Me written by Scott Peterson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NO OTHER COUNTRY SO DOMINATES THE HEADLINES: Iran is portrayed as a nuclear threat, a terrorist nation, a charter member of the Axis of Evil bent on the destruction of Israel. But behind those headlines—and the fierce rhetoric of Iran’s most hard-line leaders—is a proud nation with a 2,500-year history of Persian poetry, art, and passion. Based on more than thirty extended reporting trips to Iran, including the turbulent aftermath of the disputed June 2009 election, Scott Peterson’s portrait is the definitive guide to this enigmatic nation, from the roots of its incendiary internal struggles to the rise and slide of Iran’s earthshaking 1979 Islamic Revolution. This prize-winning American journalist with unparalleled experience in Iran takes us there, inside a country where an educated and young population is restlessly eager to take its place in the world; where martyrs of the "sacred" Iran-Iraq War are still mourned with tears of devotion; where the cultural and religious forces of light and darkness are locked in battle. Peterson brings stunningly alive the diversity within Iran—from the hard-liners who shout "Death to America" to the majority who comprise the most pro-American population in the Middle East. Let the Swords Encircle Me gives voice to Iranians themselves—the clerics and the reformers, the filmmakers and the journalists, the True Believers and their Westernized and profane brethren—to understand the complexities of Iran today. Through dedicated and in-depth reporting, Peterson shows how every word, image, and sensibility in Iran is often deliciously unexpected and counterintuitive. Ideology matters. So does "resistance." And azadi: freedom. Peterson deftly holds a mirror up to both sides of the U.S.-Iran conflict. Americans and Iranians, he writes, share a belief in their own exceptionalism and "manifest destiny" (which for Iran includes its nuclear ambitions) and frequent need of an "enemy" in political discourse. The same elements that have locked the United States and Iran in the most vicious of struggles—stretching back to the 1953 CIA coup in Tehran and the 1979 U.S. Embassy hostage saga—are the same ones that could one day make Iran and the United States the most "natural" allies in the region. In this critical and personal account, Peterson illumines the latest episodes of Iran’s century-old quest for democracy and freedom. He explains how the Islamic Revolution—launched as a beacon of justice and resistance for Iranians and all the world’s Muslims—has not lived up to its ambitious promise. He shows how the violence of 2009 damaged the regime’s legitimacy and marks the start of an irreversible decline. Let the Swords Encircle Me takes us into the minds and hearts of Iranians today, and will be a crucial guide as Americans and Iranians attempt to overcome their bitter estrangement.

Author : Joyce M. Davis
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250085055
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Martyrs written by Joyce M. Davis and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martyrs offers compelling and chilling interviews with terrorist trainers, with the families of suicide bombers, fighters and fanatics, and with Muslim scholars offering differing opinions on the legitimacy of violence in Islam. Through the voices of those who plan and those who grieve, Martyrs provides provocative and troubling insights into the zealotry that leads to the targeting of innocents, the endless cycle of revenge, and the despair that besets the Middle East. From Iran to Lebanon and the Palestinian territories, Joyce Davis reports on the rage that drives tragedies and at the despondency of the mothers of those who die and kill. Unsettling as the perspectives presented here may be, they are crucial to understanding, though not accepting, the fury at and resentment of the US.

Author : Malise Ruthven
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 085773394X
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encounters with Islam written by Malise Ruthven and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-14 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years Malise Ruthven has been at the forefront of discerning commentary on the Islamic world and its relations with the predominantly secularised and Christian societies of the West. Well known for his bold interventions on such issues as the Rushdie affair and publication of "The Satanic Verses"; the many unresolved questions relating to the Lockerbie bombing; and the globe-changing terrorist attack of 9/11, Ruthven's perceptive writings, particularly those that have appeared in the "New York Review of Books", reliably re-frame difficult issues and problems so that his readers are prompted to look at the challenges afresh. Ruthven is here at his most compelling: he offers astute and topical insights across the whole spectrum of Middle East and Islamic studies. Whether questioning the involvement of Libyan agents in the downing of Pan Am Flight 103; exploring the contested place of women in Islam; or discussing the disputed term 'Islamofascism' (his own), the author's probing, searchlight intelligence aims always to get at the truth of things, regardless of attendant controversy. Representing the 'best of Ruthven', these lucid essays will be widely appreciated by students, specialists and general readers. They transform our understandings of contemporary society.

Author : Dina Rizk Khoury
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521884616
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iraq in Wartime written by Dina Rizk Khoury and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-08 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When US-led forces invaded Iraq in 2003, they occupied a country that had been at war for 23 years. Yet in their attempts to understand Iraqi society and history, few policy makers, analysts and journalists took into account the profound impact that Iraq's long engagement with war had on the Iraqis' everyday engagement with politics, the business of managing their daily lives, and their cultural imagination. Drawing on government documents and interviews, Dina Rizk Khoury traces the political, social and cultural processes of the normalization of war in Iraq during the last twenty-three years of Ba'thist rule. Khoury argues that war was a form of everyday bureaucratic governance and examines the Iraqi government's policies of creating consent, managing resistance and religious diversity, and shaping public culture. Coming on the tenth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, this book tells a multilayered story of a society in which war has become the norm.

Author : Jolyon Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136512209
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Promoting Peace, Inciting Violence written by Jolyon Mitchell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how media and religion combine to play a role in promoting peace and inciting violence. It analyses a wide range of media - from posters, cartoons and stained glass to websites, radio and film - and draws on diverse examples from around the world, including Iran, Rwanda and South Africa. Part One considers how various media forms can contribute to the creation of violent environments: by memorialising past hurts; by instilling fear of the ‘other’; by encouraging audiences to fight, to die or to kill neighbours for an apparently greater good. Part Two explores how film can bear witness to past acts of violence, how film-makers can reveal the search for truth, justice and reconciliation, and how new media can become sites for non-violent responses to terrorism and government oppression. To what extent can popular media arts contribute to imagining and building peace, transforming weapons into art, swords into ploughshares? Jolyon Mitchell skillfully combines personal narrative, practical insight and academic analysis.