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Author Fathi, Nazila, 1970- author.

Title The lonely war : one woman's account of the struggle for modern Iran / Nazila Fathi.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2014]

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 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  955.054 FATHI    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - New Books  955.054 FATHI    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  955.054 FATHI    Check Shelf
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 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  955.054 FATHI    Check Shelf
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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  955.05 F26    Check Shelf
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 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  955.0540 FATHI    Check Shelf

Description xiv, 297 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-284) and index.
Contents Surveillance -- The formative years, 1979-1989. The revolution ; Nessa ; The time of horror ; "World powers did it!" ; The cleansing ; The war ; Our bodies, our battlefields ; Masoud ; The war ends -- Awakening, 1989-1999. After Khomeini ; Meeting a hawk ; The Intelligence Ministry ; The war revisited ; The walls come crashing down ; Nessa mourns ; A force for change ; Reform ; The regime strikes back -- The decade of confrontation, 1999-2009. The reformers speak out ; No fear of authority ; The "good" children of the revolution ; The "bad" children of the revolution ; Nasrin ; The rising tide ; End of an era ; Exile.
Summary "As a nine-year-old Tehrani schoolgirl during the Iranian Revolution, Nazila Fathi watched her country change before her eyes. The revolutionaries-- most of them poor, uneducated, and radicalized-- seized jobs, housing, and positions of power, transforming Iranian society practically overnight. But this socioeconomic revolution had an unintended effect. As Fathi shows, the forces unleashed in 1979 inadvertently created a robust Iranian middle class, one that today hungers for more personal freedoms and a renewed relationship with the outside world"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Iran -- History -- Revolution, 1979 -- Influence.
Iran -- Politics and government -- 1979-1997.
Iran -- Politics and government -- 1997-
Fathi, Nazila, 1970-
Fathi, Nazila, 1970- -- Childhood and youth.
Women -- Iran -- Biography.
Women journalists -- Iran -- Biography.
Social change -- Iran.
Middle class -- Iran.
Iran -- Social conditions.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
ISBN 9780465069996 (hardback : alkaline paper) : $27.99
0465069991 (hardback : alkaline paper)
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