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Iran Memories and Other Poems: an Iranian-American Woman's Journey

Author : Zahra Karimipour
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1466974850
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Iran Memories and Other Poems: an Iranian-American Woman's Journey written by Zahra Karimipour and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zahra Karimipours poetry paints a nostalgic picture of life in 1950s Boroujerd, a small town in the west of Iran. The realities of life in Boroujerd reveal a picture of a preindustrialized society, where life had not been touched by advanced machinery; life was simple, but vibrant. Karimipours memories of other places in Iran such as Tehran and the Caspian Sea are emotional accounts of her reflections on endearing memories. Her poem Oh, Caspian, shows her longing for the times she visited the Caspian Sea; her poem Ah, Tehran, reveals her regret of losing a city to population explosion and urbanization.

Mother Earth and We

Author : Zahra Karimipour Siavashi
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490770046
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Mother Earth and We written by Zahra Karimipour Siavashi and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poetry in Mother Earth and We portrays nature as the source for our survival, contemplation, contentment, and peaceful living. Natures grandeur and abundance make it our duty to care for our earth now and for the next generations.

Neither East Nor West

Author : Christiane Bird
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671027565
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Neither East Nor West written by Christiane Bird and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining reminiscence, travelogue, history, and interviews with Iranians from all walks of life, a journey through modern-day Iran reveals a nation shrouded by misunderstanding, cultural stereotypes, and hostility.

Let Me Tell You Where I've Been

Author : Persis M. Karim
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Let Me Tell You Where I've Been written by Persis M. Karim and published by . This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until recently, Iranian literature has overwhelmingly been the domain of men. But the new hybrid culture of diaspora Iranians has produced a prolific literature by women that reflects a unique perspective and voice. Let Me Tell You Where I've Been is an extensive collection of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction by women whose lives have been shaped and influenced by Iran's recent history, exile, immigration and the formation of new cultural identities in the United States and Europe. These writings represent an emerging and multi-cultural female sensibility. Unlike many flat media portrayals of Iranian women—as veiled, silenced—these writers offer a complex literary view of Iranian culture and its influences. These writers interrogate, challenge, and re-define notions of home and language and their work offers readers an experience of Iranian diaspora culture. Featuring over one hundred selections (two-thirds of which have never been published before) by more than fifty contributors--including such well-known writers as Gelareh Asayesh, Tara Bahrampour, Firoozeh Dumas, Roya Hakakian and Mimi Khalvati--the collection represents a substantial diversity of voices in this multicultural community. Divided into six sections, the book's themes of exile, family, culture resistance, and love, create a rich and textured view of the Iranian diaspora. The poems, short stories, and essays are suggestive of an important conversation about Iran, Iranian culture, the Persian and English languages, and the dual identities of many of its authors. This powerful collection is a tribute to the wisdom, insight, and sensitivity of women attempting to invent and articulate a literature of in-betweenness.

Daughter of Persia

Author : Sattareh Farman Farmaian
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307339742
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Daughter of Persia written by Sattareh Farman Farmaian and published by Crown. This book was released on 2006-06-27 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate and honest chronicle of the everyday life of Iranian women over the past century “A lesson about the value of personal freedom and what happens to a nation when its people are denied the right to direct their own destiny. This is a book Americans should read.” —Washington Post The fifteenth of thirty-six children, Sattareh Farman Farmaian was born in Iran in 1921 to a wealthy and powerful shazdeh, or prince, and spent a happy childhood in her father’s Tehran harem. Inspired and empowered by his ardent belief in education, she defied tradition by traveling alone at the age of twenty-three to the United States to study at the University of Southern California. Ten years later, she returned to Tehran and founded the first school of social work in Iran. Intertwined with Sattareh’s personal story is her unique perspective on the Iranian political and social upheaval that have rocked Iran throughout the twentieth century, from the 1953 American-backed coup that toppled democratic premier Mossadegh to the brutal regime of the Shah and Ayatollah Khomeini’s fanatic and anti-Western Islamic Republic. In 1979, after two decades of tirelessly serving Iran’s neediest, Sattareh was arrested as a counterrevolutionary and branded an imperialist by Ayatollah Khomeini’s radical students. Daughter of Persia is the remarkable story of a woman and a nation in the grip of profound change.

World Between Poems Short Stories and Essays By Iranian Americans

Author : Persis M Karim
Publisher : George Braziller Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book World Between Poems Short Stories and Essays By Iranian Americans written by Persis M Karim and published by George Braziller Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of stories, essays and poems about Iranians in Iran and America. Subjects raised include the plight of people who are seen as potential terrorists simply because they are Iranians.

Journey from the Land of No

Author : Roya Hakakian
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0609810308
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Journey from the Land of No written by Roya Hakakian and published by Crown. This book was released on 2005-06-28 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An emotional, evocative coming-of-age story about one deeply intelligent and perceptive girl’s attempt to find her own voice in prerevolutionary Iran “An immensely moving, extraordinarily eloquent, and passionate memoir.”—Harold Bloom Roya Hakakian was twelve years old in 1979 when the revolution swept through Tehran. The daughter of an esteemed poet, she grew up in a household that hummed with intellectual life. Family gatherings were punctuated by witty, satirical exchanges and spontaneous recitations of poetry. But the Hakakians were also part of the very small Jewish population in Iran who witnessed the iron fist of the Islamic fundamentalists increasingly tightening its grip. It is with the innocent confusion of youth that Roya describes her discovery of a swastika—“a plus sign gone awry, a dark reptile with four hungry claws”—painted on the wall near her home. As a schoolgirl she watched as friends accused of reading blasphemous books were escorted from class by Islamic Society guards, never to return. Only much later did Roya learn that she was spared a similar fate because her teacher admired her writing. Hakakian relates in the most poignant, and at times painful, ways what life was like for women after the country fell into the hands of Islamic fundamentalists who had declared an insidious war against them, but we see it all through the eyes of a strong, youthful optimist who somehow came up in the world believing that she was different, knowing she was special. A wonderfully evocative story, Journey from the Land of No reveals an Iran most readers have not encountered and re-creates a time and place dominated by religious fanaticism, violence, and fear with an open heart.

Love and Pomegranates

Author : Meghan Sayers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781732474130
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book Love and Pomegranates written by Meghan Sayers and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love and Pomegranates: Artists and Wayfarers on Iran is a series of testimonials from people who have journeyed into the heart of the "enemy" and found themselves identifying with the "other." More than a collection of essays to acquaint readers with Iran, it is a model for citizen diplomacy. It is a maiden voyage on the path to greater understanding.

Iran Awakening

Author : Shirin Ebadi
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812975286
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Iran Awakening written by Shirin Ebadi and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2007-04-10 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • The moving, inspiring memoir of one of the great women of our times, Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize and advocate for the oppressed, whose spirit has remained strong in the face of political persecution and despite the challenges she has faced raising a family while pursuing her work. Best known in this country as the lawyer working tirelessly on behalf of Canadian photojournalist, Zara Kazemi—raped, tortured and murdered in Iran—Dr. Ebadi offers us a vivid picture of the struggles of one woman against the system. The book movingly chronicles her childhood in a loving, untraditional family, her upbringing before the Revolution in 1979 that toppled the Shah, her marriage and her religious faith, as well as her life as a mother and lawyer battling an oppressive regime in the courts while bringing up her girls at home. Outspoken, controversial, Shirin Ebadi is one of the most fascinating women today. She rose quickly to become the first female judge in the country; but when the religious authorities declared women unfit to serve as judges she was demoted to clerk in the courtroom she had once presided over. She eventually fought her way back as a human rights lawyer, defending women and children in politically charged cases that most lawyers were afraid to represent. She has been arrested and been the target of assassination, but through it all has spoken out with quiet bravery on behalf of the victims of injustice and discrimination and become a powerful voice for change, almost universally embraced as a hero. Her memoir is a gripping story—a must-read for anyone interested in Zara Kazemi’s case, in the life of a remarkable woman, or in understanding the political and religious upheaval in our world. Praise for Shirin Ebadi and Iran Awakening “This is the riveting story of an amazing and very brave woman living through some quite turbulent times. And she emerges with head unbowed.”—Archbishop Desmond Tutu “The safety and freedom of citizens in democracies is irretrievably bound with the safety and freedom of people like Shirin Ebadi who are fighting to reassert the best achievements of mankind: universal human rights. One of the staunchest advocates for human rights in her country and beyond, Ms. Ebadi, herself a devout Muslim, represents hope for many in Muslim societies that Islam and democracy are indeed compatible.”—Azar Nafisi “A moving portrait of a life lived in truth.”—The New York Times Book Review “A riveting account of a brave, lonely struggle . . . [Iran Awakening] reads like a police thriller, its drama heightened by Ebadi’s determination to keep up the quotidian aspects of her family life.”—The Washington Post Book World “A must read . . . may be the most important book you could read this year.”—Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Exiled Memories

Author : Zohreh Sullivan
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439906416
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Exiled Memories written by Zohreh Sullivan and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I feel I am the wandering Jew who has no place to which she belongs. I thought I could settle down, but can't imagine staying. Whenever I bought a bar of soap and two came in the package, I thought there would be no need to buy a package of two because I would never last through the second. Why? Because I knew I was returning to Iran -- tomorrow. So too, I would buy the smallest size of toothpastes and jars of oil. Putting down roots here is an impossibility." These are the words of one Iranian emigre, driven from Tehran by the revolution of 1979. They are echoed time and again in this powerful portrayal of loss and survival. Impelled by these word and her own concerns about nationality and identity, Zohreh Sullivan has gathered together here the voices of sixty exiles and emigres. The speakers come from various ethnic and religious backgrounds and range in age from thirteen to eighty-eight. Although most are from the middle class, they work in a variety of occupations in the United States. But whatever their differences, here they engage in remembering the past, producing a discourse about their lives, and negotiating the troubled transitions from one culture to another. Unlike man other Iranian oral history projects, Exiled Memories looks at the reconstruction of memory and identity through diasporic narratives, through a focus on the Americas rather than on Iran. The narratives included here reveal the complex ways in which events and places transform identities, how overnight radical s become conservatives, friends become enemies, the strong become weak. Indeed, the narratives themselves serve this function -- serving to transfer or transform power and establish credibility. They reveal a diverse group of people in the process of knitting the story of themselves with the story of the collective after it has been torn apart.

Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran

Author : Dominic Parviz Brookshaw
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 075560069X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran written by Dominic Parviz Brookshaw and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-04 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pioneering Iranian poet and filmmaker Forugh Farrokhzad was an iconic figure in her own day and has come to represent the spirit of revolt against patriarchal and cultural norms in 1960s Iran. Five decades after her tragic death at the age of 32, Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran brings her ground-breaking work into new focus. During her lifetime Farrokhzad embodied the vexed predicament of the contemporary Iranian woman, at once subjected to long-held traditional practices and influenced by newly introduced modern social sensibilities. Highlighting her literary and cinematic innovation, this volume examines the unique place Farrokhzad occupies in Iran, both among modern Persian poets in general and as an Iranian woman writer in particular. The authors also explore Farrokhzad's appeal outside Iran in the Iranian diasporic imagination and through the numerous translations of her poetry into English. It is a fitting and authoritative tribute to the work of a remarkable woman which will introduce and explain her legacy for a 21st-century audience. This second edition includes two new chapters which explore a travelogue Farrokhzad wrote during her time in Italy, and an examination of Farrokhzad's influence on the writings of the Afghan female poet Laila Sarahat Rowshani.

A Sliver of Light

Author : Shane Bauer
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547985533
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (479 download)

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Download or read book A Sliver of Light written by Shane Bauer and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three Americans captured by Iranian forces and held in captivity for years reveal, for the first time, the full story of their imprisonment and fight for freedom.

Belonging

Author : Niloufar Talebi
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781556437120
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (371 download)

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Download or read book Belonging written by Niloufar Talebi and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent political developments, including the shadow of a new war, have obscured the fact that Iran has a long and splendid artistic tradition ranging from the visual arts to literature. Western readers may have some awareness of the Iranian novel thanks to a few breakout successes like Reading Lolita in Tehran and My Uncle Napoleon, but the country's strong poetic tradition remains little known. This anthology remedies that situation with a rich selection of recent poetry by Iranians living all around the world, including Amir-Hossein Afrasiabi: “Although the path / tracks my footsteps, / I don’t travel it / for the path travels me.” Varying dramatically in style, tone, and theme, these expertly translated works include erotic divertissements by Ziba Karbassi, rigorously formal poetry by Yadollah Royaii, experimental poems by Naanaam, powerful polemics by Maryam Huleh, and the personal-epic work of Shahrouz Rashid. Eclectic and accessible, these vibrant poems deepen the often limited awareness of Iranian identity today by not only introducing readers to contemporary Iranian poetry, but also expanding the canon of significant writing in the Persian language. Belonging offers a glimpse at a complex culture through some of its finest literary talents.

Lipstick Jihad

Author : Azadeh Moaveni
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1586485490
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Lipstick Jihad written by Azadeh Moaveni and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2007-03-31 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As far back as she can remember, Azadeh Moaveni has felt at odds with her tangled identity as an Iranian-American. In suburban America, Azadeh lived in two worlds. At home, she was the daughter of the Iranian exile community, serving tea, clinging to tradition, and dreaming of Tehran. Outside, she was a California girl who practiced yoga and listened to Madonna. For years, she ignored the tense standoff between her two cultures. But college magnified the clash between Iran and America, and after graduating, she moved to Iran as a journalist. This is the story of her search for identity, between two cultures cleaved apart by a violent history. It is also the story of Iran, a restive land lost in the twilight of its revolution. Moaveni's homecoming falls in the heady days of the country's reform movement, when young people demonstrated in the streets and shouted for the Islamic regime to end. In these tumultuous times, she struggles to build a life in a dark country, wholly unlike the luminous, saffron and turquoise-tinted Iran of her imagination. As she leads us through the drug-soaked, underground parties of Tehran, into the hedonistic lives of young people desperate for change, Moaveni paints a rare portrait of Iran's rebellious next generation. The landscape of her Tehran -- ski slopes, fashion shows, malls and cafes -- is populated by a cast of young people whose exuberance and despair brings the modern reality of Iran to vivid life.

Saved by Beauty

Author : Roger Housden
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307587746
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Saved by Beauty written by Roger Housden and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Roger Housden decided to travel to Iran and finally see the subject of his youthful fascination, he was in his sixties. By then, he thought he had seen the world. He was wrong. It was a quest that changed him forever. In Iran, Housden met with artists, writers, film makers and religious scholars who embody the long Iranian tradition of humanism, and shared with him their belief in scholarship and artistry. From the bustle of modern Tehran to the paradise gardens of Shiraz to the spectacular mosques and ancient palaces of Isfahan, Housden met Iranians who were warm, welcoming, generous, intellectually curious, and altogether alive with their love for one another, and for the faith and tradition that holds them together. Saved by Beauty weaves a richly textured story of many threads. It is a deeply poetic and perceptive appreciation of a culture that has endured for over three thousand years, while it also portrays the creative and spiritual cultures within contemporary Iran. While there, Roger Housden was brought face to face with the reality that beauty and truth, deceit and violence, are inextricably mingled in the affairs of human life, and was forever altered by it.

My Iran

Author : Shawndeez
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781539940180
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book My Iran written by Shawndeez and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-28 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping and inspirational story, My Iran takes us along the journey of a young Iranian-American woman's personal account of visiting her home country for the first time. Highlighting the difficulties of adjusting to cultural norms, shawndeez shares her experience of traveling all over Iran by plane, bus, car, and boat. Inviting young diaspora Iranians to engage with their homeland, My Iran pushes us all to explore the many beauties of Iran in a new light.

Honeymoon in Purdah

Author : Alison Wearing
Publisher : Knopf Canada
ISBN 13 : 9780676972702
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (727 download)

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Download or read book Honeymoon in Purdah written by Alison Wearing and published by Knopf Canada. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a love of travel, Alison Wearing invites us to journey with her to Iran--a country that few Westerners have a chance to see. Traveling with a male friend, in the guise of a couple on their honeymoon, Wearing set out on her own at every available opportunity. She went looking for what lay beneath the media's representation of Iran and found a country made up of welcoming, curious, warmhearted, ambitious men and women. With humor and compassion, Wearing gives Iranians the chance to wander beyond headlines and stereotypes, and in doing so, reveals the poetry of their lives--those whose lives extend beyond Western news stories of kidnapping, terrorism, veiled women, and Islamic fundamentalism.