In The Rose Garden Of The Martyrs A Memoir Of Iran

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 : Maryam Rostampour
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1414382200
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Captive in Iran written by Maryam Rostampour and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maryam Rostampour and Marziyeh Amirizadeh knew they were putting their lives on the line. Islamic laws in Iran forbade them from sharing their Christian beliefs, but in three years, they’d covertly put New Testaments into the hands of twenty thousand of their countrymen and started two secret house churches. In 2009, they were finally arrested and held in the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran, a place where inmates are routinely tortured and executions are commonplace. In the face of ruthless interrogations, persecution, and a death sentence, Maryam and Marziyeh chose to take the radical—and dangerous—step of sharing their faith inside the very walls of the government stronghold that was meant to silence them. In Captive in Iran, two courageous Iranian women recount how God used their 259 days in Evin Prison to shine His light into one of the world’s darkest places, giving hope to those who had lost everything and showing love to those in despair.

Author : Brian T. Edwards
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226185079
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Globalizing American Studies written by Brian T. Edwards and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected here offer a comparative, multilingual, or multisited approach to ideas and representations of America. The contributors explore unexpected perspectives on the international circulation of American culture.

Author : Nancy Pearl
Publisher : Sasquatch Books
ISBN 13 : 1570617015
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Book Lust to Go written by Nancy Pearl and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventure is just a book away as bestselling author Nancy Pearl returns with recommended reading for more than 120 destinations — both worldly and imagined — around the globe. From Las Vegas to the Land of Oz, Naples to Nigeria, Philadelphia to Provence, Nancy Pearl guides readers to the very best fiction and nonfiction to read about each destination. Even within one country, she traverses decades to suggest titles that effortlessly capture the different eras that make up a region’s unique history. This enthusiastic literary globetrotting guide includes stops in Korea, Sweden, Afghanistan, Albania, Parma, Patagonia, Texas, and Timbuktu. Book Lust To Go connects the best fiction and nonfiction to particular destinations, whether your bags are packed or your armchair is calling. From fiction to memoir, poetry to history, Nancy Pearl’s Book Lust to Go takes the reader on a globetrotting adventure — no passport required.

Author : Christopher de Bellaigue
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9781590172384
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Struggle for Iran written by Christopher de Bellaigue and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2007-05-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Christopher de Bellaigue first visited Iran in 1999, he found it irresistably alive: under the leadership of President Mohammad Khatami, Islamic revolutionary rule was loosening and the prospects for democratic pluralism seemed bright. But over the remaining six years of Khatami's presidency, de Bellaigue watched as the conservative religious establishment reasserted its power and the hopes of reform slowly died. The country seemed to turn its back on all that Khatami stood for when it elected an unsophisticated Islamist ideologue, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to succeed him in 2005. As the optimism of the reform movement was fading, international tensions over Iran's nuclear program were rising. George W. Bush included Iran in the "axis of evil," depicting it as a malign theocracy determined to acquire nuclear weapons and threaten Israel. Yet de Bellaigue's accounts of the nuclear negotiations make clear that the West's opposition to Iranian nuclear ambitions has helped both to empower those who oppose democratic reform and perhaps even to convince Iran it needs nuclear weapons for self-defense. Beyond the high political drama, de Bellaigue, a long-term resident of Tehran and a fluent Persian speaker, gives a sense of the complexities of Iranian culture and society through striking portraits of Iranians going about their daily lives—reading the poetry of Rumi, looking at modern art, making films under the threat of censorship, trying to get by despite domestic turmoil and military threats. His keen analyses of Iran's politics and its people offer fascinating insights into a often misunderstood nation that poses some of the most challenging problems facing the world today.

Author : Christopher de Bellaigue
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062196626
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patriot of Persia written by Christopher de Bellaigue and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher de Bellaigue, a former contributor to The Economist, brings to light the fascinating story of one of the great anti-colonial heroes of the twentieth century: Muhammad Mossadegh, the great Iranian leader whose untimely demise resulted in the Islamic Revolution of 1979, and a man who has been demonized, ridiculed, and misunderstood in the West while remaining an icon and an inspiration across the Middle East. Patriot of Persia, a new biography exploring his life and impact, opens a crucial new window into Mossadegh—whose role in the evolution of Iran’s political climate cannot be overemphasized—providing a resource that will prove equally invaluable to academics, newshounds, and activists as they struggle to understand Mideast politics, Iran, Ahmadinejad, and the future of the region—and the world.

Author : Nelofer Pazira
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743290003
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Bed of Red Flowers written by Nelofer Pazira and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with compassion, intelligence and insight, A Bed of Red Flowers is a profoundly moving portrait of life under occupation and the unforgettable story of a family, a people and a country. "The picnic of the red flower" is a traditional time of celebration for Afghans. One of Nelofer Pazira's earliest memories is of people gathering in the countryside to admire the tulips and poppies carpeting the landscape. It is the mid-1970s, and her parents are building a future for themselves and their young children in the city of Kabul. But when Nelofer is just five the Communists take power and her father, a respected doctor, is imprisoned along with thousands of other Afghans. The following year, the Russians invade Afghanistan, which becomes a police state and the center of a bloody conflict between the Soviet army and American-backed mujahidin fighters. A climate of violence and fear reigns. For Nelofer, there is no choice but to grow up fast. At eleven, she and her friends throw stones at the Russian tanks that stir up dust and animosity in the streets of Kabul. As a teenager she joins a resistance group, hiding her gun from her parents. Her emotional refuge is her friendship with her classmate Dyana, with whom she shares a passion for poetry, dreams and a better life. After a decade of war, Nelofer's family escapes across the mountains to Pakistan and later to Canada, where she continues to write to Dyana. When her friend suddenly stops writing, Nelofer fears for Dyana's life. With lyrical, narrative prose, A Bed of Red Flowers movingly tells Pazira's haunting story, as well as Afghanistan's story as a nation.

Author : John H. Lorentz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810876388
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The A to Z of Iran written by John H. Lorentz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alphabetically arranged entries cover key individuals; major events; important institutions and organizations; and significant economic, political, social, religious, and cultural issues.

Author : John Ghazvinian
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307271811
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America and Iran written by John Ghazvinian and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A history of the relationship between Iran and America from the 1700s through the current day"--

Author : Ervand Abrahamian
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107198348
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Modern Iran written by Ervand Abrahamian and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A succinct and highly readable narrative of modern Iran from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.