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The lonely war

Nazila Fathi · 2014

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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"--

Book details

Year
2014
Language
English
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Editions
1
Pages
297
ISBN
9780465069996

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