The Lonely War: One Woman's Account of the Struggle for Modern Iran

Autori

• Nazila Fathi

Parametri

• 297 pagine
• 11 ore di lettura

• Autobiografie e memorie
• Biografie e pensieri
• Cultura e Società
• Saggistica
• Storia

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"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"--

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2014

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