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.
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Iran -- Politics and government -- 1979-1997.
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Iran -- Politics and government -- 1997-
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Fathi, Nazila, 1970-
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Fathi, Nazila, 1970- -- Childhood and youth.
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Women -- Iran -- Biography.
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Women journalists -- Iran -- Biography.
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Social change -- Iran.
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Middle class -- Iran.
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Iran -- Social conditions.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
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ISBN |
9780465069996 (hardback : alkaline paper) : $27.99 |
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0465069991 (hardback : alkaline paper) |
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