Midnight Picnics In Tehran

Author : Leilah Jane King
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ISBN 13 : 9781911570660
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Midnight Picnics in Tehran written by Leilah Jane King and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Midnight Picnics in Tehran is Leilah Jane King's debut collection. It is a tale of two countries, three cities and an innumerable amount of drinks being thrown in people's faces. Leilah paints striking imagery of the bustling cities of Shiraz and Tehran, the former her mother's birth place. She conveys a melancholic nostalgia and love for a culture still novel to her that is remembered warmly from childhood summers spent in Iran's beautiful mountains and parks. Midnight Picnics does not only focus on Iran but talks about Leilah's time living in Bristol and Brighton. She shares an open, honest and raw account inviting you to navigate your way through sexuality, androgyny and anger.

Author : Afshan D'Souza-Lodhi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781911570851
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Re written by Afshan D'Souza-Lodhi and published by . This book was released on 2020-05 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: re: desire draws upon literary traditions and cultural references to flip the male gaze common in mushairas on its head. Common themes for mushairas are love, God and being drunk or intoxicated by love and God - but is usually seen from a male perspective. The pieces in re: desire are mainly told from a female perspective

Author : Julia Huang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857717529
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tribeswomen of Iran written by Julia Huang and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the revolution in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran has permitted very few Western scholars to conduct research in the country. Foreign travellers and media persons have limited access and much Iranian scholarship tends to focus on the realms of politics and government. Here Julia Huang provides a remarkable account of local tribal Iranian life, offering a rare glimpse into the daily rhythms and social richness beyond the capital city of Tehran. The Qashqa'i are a confederation of nomadic tribes, of which the Qermezi ('Red Ones') are one, migrating semiannually between winter pastures near the Persian Gulf and summer pastures southwest of the city of Isfahan. Huang has visited and traveled with the Qermezi for extended periods across fourteen years. Drawing on her experiences, participation and observation, she offers an intimate window onto their life. She focuses on a small group of women spanning four generations who are part of a large extended family, and describes their ways of life, their activities and interactions, and their distinctive sociocultural and ecological setting. Like other nomadic peoples around the world, the Qashqa'i increasingly face pressures that threaten their livelihoods, lifestyles and culture. Huang shows us how women negotiate compromises between customary tribal values and external influences, and sketches their efforts to resist the influences of an Islamizing, modernizing and centralizing government. With shadows and resonances that rebound across the stories of these women, Huang is able to present multiple perspectives on events and contentious issues, for instance the politicized issue of women's state-mandated modest dress. Huang also explains how the Turkic-speaking Qashqa'i relate to the wider Iranian society and the Islamic Republic of Iran, adapting to a rapidly changing world while retaining tribal values and a distinctive ethnolinguistic identity as one of Iran's national minorities. In describing life at the local level in Iran, Huang depicts a community largely beyond the scope and reach of foreign travellers and the Western media. With rich ethnographic description and analysis, intimate portraits of the private lives and spaces of women and children, and diverse perspectives, this engagingly written account documents a disappearing way of life. 'Tribeswomen of Iran' is essential reading for all those interested in Iran, the Middle East, anthropology, nomadism and gender.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iran written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan Kinsman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781911570820
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Witness written by Jonathan Kinsman and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witness is about taking the gospel back to its radical roots in a time that has poured whitewash over it. This is a story about a man executed by the state for saying things they didn't want to hear. This is a story about those that followed him.

Author : Ali Dashti
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 179602290X
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fetneh written by Ali Dashti and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reza Shah Pahlavi introduced policies that altered the lives of Iranian women radically. For the first time, women entered into modern sectors of the economy, family laws were modified, the unveiling was enforced, and the government established public coeducational primary schools. The rapid development of women’s schools, in spite of bitter clerical objection, was one of the primary means for women’s awakening in this period. The mid-1930s also saw the opening of higher education to women and enrollment of over seventy female students in 1936–37 at the University of Tehran. Reflecting on this radical change in the infrastructure of Iran’s social scene, Ali Dashti wrote his collections of short stories and essays—Fetneh, Jadoo, Hindu, and Sayeh—in which he analyzed the attitudes of upper-class women caught between the traditional and modern Europeanized societies of Tehran. These books are testaments to the courage of Ali Dashti to document the situation in Iranian society so accurately. With his assertive voice, he underlined the short stories with the actual political and social changes in Iran. Dashti’s humanistic ideas and his regard and high expectations for the human race, especially for women, are beyond time and place. The quality debates on the subject of human rights and gender equality presented in his short stories, written about a century ago in Iran, are only recently surfacing in the Western world.

Author : Bethany Rose
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ISBN 13 : 9781911570974
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neon written by Bethany Rose and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-13 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEON softly lights the shadowy path of LGBT issues, mental health, school, grief and longing. This collection is dedicated to anyone who is looking for a way to come back home to themselves.

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 : ibizo lami
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913958176
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chosen Family written by ibizo lami and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-02 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adapted from a spoken word solo show, Chosen Family by Ibizo Iami is a raw but gentle story of recovery and strength. Set in the waiting room of Dr Unicorn's office, Ibizo reflects on the instances that have knocked them down and built them back up again. Through emotionally charged poems and monologues, we start to unpick the importance of boundaries, love and expression in the quest to recover the body from trauma. We meet friends and concepts along the way that shape Ibizo's journey to finding their chosen family.

Author : Toby Campion
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ISBN 13 : 9781911570127
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Through Your Blood written by Toby Campion and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through your blood talks us along a deeply personal yet undeniably relatable journey, through a turbulent adolescence into adulthood. Refreshingly frank, perceptive and funny, these poems are psalms of identity, broken tradition and desperation sung from the back lanes of a Midlands city. Born and raised in the Midlands, Toby Campion is a UK National Poetry Slam Champion and a World Poetry Slam finalist. Recipient of the Silver Wyvern Award and First Place in the Poetry on the Lake Prizes 2017, awarded by Carol Ann Duffy, Toby has performed his poetry on stages across the UK, from Glastonbury Festival to London's Royal Albert Hall, and in countries around the world, including America, Italy, Spain, Albania and South Korea. His debut play, WRECK, won the Fifth Word Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright 2015. Toby's poetry has been selected to represent the UK at numerous international conferences and events including Capturing Fire: International Queer Poetry Summit, the 18th Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, the Paris Poetry World Cup and Next Generation Speaks. Director of UniSlam and Resident Artist at Camden's prestigious Roundhouse, Toby was one of the first resident poets of the River Thames.