Related category: World - Middle East
Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 10 books in this booklist
£10.00 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781999619503 | ISBN 10: 1999619501
In 1979, Nasrin Parvaz returned from England, where she had been studying, and became a member of a socialist party in Iran fighting for a non-Islamic state in which women had the same rights as men. Three years later, at the age of 23, she was betra ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781846045028 | ISBN 10: 1846045029
In this powerful book, Dr Shirin Ebadi, Iranian human rights lawyer and activist, tells of her fight for reform inside Iran, and the devastating backlash she faced after winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Â Having fought tirelessly for democracy, equa ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780190232962 | ISBN 10: 019023296x
Since the beginning of recorded history, Iran/Persia has been one of the most important world civilizations. Iran remains a distinct civilization today despite its status as a major Islamic state with broad regional influence and its deep integration ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781689233 | ISBN 10: 1781689237
Graphic true-life spy thriller about the CIA mission that overthrew Iran’s democracy. The year is 1953. As the value of oil skyrockets, global power brokers begin to take interest in the political regimes of the Middle East. British agents hav ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241246238 | ISBN 10: 0241246237
'That room for all of us, became a place of transgression. What a wonderland it was! Sitting around the large coffee table covered with bouquets of flowers - We were, to borrow from Nabokov, to experience how the ordinary pebble of ordinary life coul ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780141047416 | ISBN 10: 0141047410
Hooman Majd, acclaimed journalist and New York-residing grandson of an Ayatollah, has a unique perspective on his Iranian homeland. In this vivid, warm and humorous insider's account, he opens our eyes to an Iran that few people see, meeting opium-sm ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780224087407 | ISBN 10: 0224087401
From the author of the highly acclaimed two-volume comic strip autobiography Persepolis, here is a gloriously entertaining and revealing comic-book look into the sex lives of women. When Marjane Satrapi's tough-talking grandmother, mother, eccentric ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781846040146 | ISBN 10: 1846040140
Throughout an extraordinary career as a lawyer, writer, activist and dissident Shirin Ebadi has spoken out clearly and strongly for her native Iran and her voice has resonated far beyond its borders. As a dedicated human rights activist and a winner ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781846270031 | ISBN 10: 1846270030
"This is not the first example of a book made out of blogs... It does, I think, count as the finest so far: an eye-opening collage of extracts from the (roughly) 64,000 Farsi-lanaguage bloggers now at work in Iran. Alavi's theme-by-theme compil ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780141188041 | ISBN 10: 0141188049
Shah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran, and is a compellng meditation on the nature of revolution and the devastating effects of fear. Here, Kapuscinski describes the tyrannical monarch, who, despite his cruel oppression of t ... more
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