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Persian Girls

Author : Nahid Rachlin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101007702
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Persian Girls written by Nahid Rachlin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-12-27 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years, heartache prevented Nahid Rachlin from turning her sharp novelist's eye inward: to tell the story of how her own life diverged from that of her closest confidante and beloved sister, Pari. Growing up in Iran, both refused to accept traditional Muslim mores, and dreamed of careers in literature and on the stage. Their lives changed abruptly when Pari was coerced by their father into marrying a wealthy and cruel suitor. Nahid narrowly avoided a similar fate, and instead negotiated with him to pursue her studies in America. When Nahid received the unsettling and mysterious news that Pari had died after falling down a flight of stairs, she traveled back to Iran--now under the Islamic regime--to find out what happened to her truest friend, confront her past, and evaluate what the future holds for the heartbroken in a tale of crushing sorrow, sisterhood, and ultimately, hope.

The Persian Girl

Author : Felix Baron
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780352345011
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book The Persian Girl written by Felix Baron and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The auction catalogue read: Lot # 217. A tin trunk, circa 1860, containing a number of esoteric volumes, many with curious woodcuts, all in poor condition The trunk held the secret diaries of Sir Richard Francis Burton, soldier, spy, explorer, linguist, diplomat, master of disguise, the greatest swordsman of all time, hero, scoundrel, rake. His deeds are legendary, from single-handedly routing a score of attacking tribesmen to translating the Kama Sutra after having tested every single position it describes. Long periods of Burton's life have been shrouded in mystery. His lovely wife, Isabel, burned many of his papers, 'to protect his reputation.' Now it can be revealed that Burton's remarkable skill with the sabre was exceeded by his incredible sexual prowess. During the period of his life that he describes in The Persian Girl, he futtered his way from London to the Himalayas, coupling with two women at once, as an hors d'oeuvre, then taking his pleasure from gorgeous trios and beautiful quartets until his magnum opus - an extended orgy with a dozen female participants, with Burton as the only male. After that, saving the British Empire from a perfidious Russian plot was easy.

Girl in Paris

Author : Shusha Guppy
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Girl in Paris written by Shusha Guppy and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2007 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a portrait of Paris in the fifties and also gives an astute depiction of the confrontation between the East and the West. It also presents an account of the pain of exile.

From the Shahs to Los Angeles

Author : Saba Soomekh
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438443854
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book From the Shahs to Los Angeles written by Saba Soomekh and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gold Medalist, 2013 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Religion category Saba Soomekh offers a fascinating portrait of three generations of women in an ethnically distinctive and little-known American Jewish community, Jews of Iranian origin living in Los Angeles. Most of Iran's Jewish community immigrated to the United States and settled in Los Angeles in the wake of the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the government-sponsored discrimination that followed. Based on interviews with women raised during the constitutional monarchy of the earlier part of the twentieth century, those raised during the modernizing Pahlavi regime of mid-century, and those who have grown up in Los Angeles, the book presents an ethnographic portrait of what life was and is like for Iranian Jewish women. Featuring the voices of all generations, the book concentrates on religiosity and ritual observance, the relationship between men and women, and women's self-concept as Iranian Jewish women. Mother-daughter relationships, double standards for sons and daughters, marriage customs, the appeal of American forms of Jewish practices, social customs and pressures, and the alternate attraction to and critique of materialism and attention to outward appearance are discussed by the author and through the voices of her informants.

The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women

Author : Rabe`eh Balkhi
Publisher : Mage Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1949445607
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women written by Rabe`eh Balkhi and published by Mage Publishers. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the very first Persian poets was a woman (Rabe’eh, who lived over a thousand years ago) and there have been women poets writing in Persian in virtually every generation since that time until the present. Before the twentieth century they tended to come from society’s social extremes. Many were princesses, a good number were hired entertainers of one kind or another, and they were active in many different countries – Iran of course, but also India, Afghanistan, and areas of central Asia that are now Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan. Not surprisingly, a lot of their poetry sounds like that of their male counterparts, but a lot doesn’t; there are distinctively bawdy and flirtatious poems by medieval women poets, poems from virtually every era in which the poet complains about her husband (sometimes light-heartedly, sometimes with poignant seriousness), touching poems on the death of a child, and many epigrams centered on little details that bring a life from hundreds of years ago vividly before our eyes. This new bilingual edition of The Mirror of My Heart – the poems in Persian and English on facing pages – is a unique and captivating collection introduced and translated by Dick Davis, an acclaimed scholar and translator of Persian literature as well as a gifted poet in his own right. In his introduction he provides fascinating background detail on Persian poetry written by women through the ages, including common themes and motifs and a brief overview of Iranian history showing how women poets have been affected by the changing dynasties. From Rabe’eh in the tenth century to Fatemeh Ekhtesari in the twenty-first, each of the eighty-four poets in this volume is introduced in a short biographical note, while explanatory notes give further insight into the poems themselves.

Reconstructed Lives

Author : Haleh Esfandiari
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801856198
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (561 download)

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Download or read book Reconstructed Lives written by Haleh Esfandiari and published by Woodrow Wilson Center Press. This book was released on 1997-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iranian women tell in their own words what the revolution attempted and how they responded. The Islamic revolution of 1979 transformed all areas of Iranian life. For women, the consequences were extensive and profound, as the state set out to reverse legal and social rights women had won and to dictate many aspects of women's lives, including what they could study and how they must dress and relate to men. Reconstructed Lives presents Iranian women telling in their own words what the revolution attempted and how they responded. Through a series of interviews with professional and working women in Iran—doctors, lawyers, writers, professors, secretaries, businesswomen—Haleh Esfandiari gathers dramatic accounts of what has happened to their lives as women in an Islamic society. She and her informants describe the strategies by which women try to and sometimes succeed in subverting the state's agenda. Esfandiari also provides historical background on the women's movement in Iran. She finds evidence in Iran's experience that even women from "traditional" and working classes do not easily surrender rights or access they have gained to education, career opportunities, and a public role.

My Persian Girl

Author : Jonathan Rush
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781763612
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book My Persian Girl written by Jonathan Rush and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under its placid surface in 1978, Iran was a simmering sea of religious animosity and social resentment, which was shortly to boil over into the world's first Islamic revolution: the overthrow of the country's autocratic ruler, the Shah; and his replacement with a charismatic religious leader, Ayatollah Khomeni. My Persian Girl is an account of the impact the violent turmoil of the 1979 Iranian revolution has on three people: Shahnaz, a young Iranian woman; her husband Raman, who is an ambitious officer in Iran's secret police; and a naive young Englishman, James Harding. All these characters must make difficult decisions as Iran gradually slides towards the revolution, which threatens their personal safety. My Persian Girl is more than a love story set within a political thriller - it is a story of courage and hope in the face of momentous events, which have global resonance today.

Roots in Iran

Author : Yasmine Mahdavi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578965000
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Roots in Iran written by Yasmine Mahdavi and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover version of book.

Persian Girls

Author : Nahid Rachlin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781585426232
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (262 download)

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The Persian Bride

Author : James Buchan
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618219230
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book The Persian Bride written by James Buchan and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as a masterpiece in Britain, this epic novel is at once a great love story, a riveting political thriller, and a profound analysis of modern Iran. A couple falls desperately in love, marry in secret, and are forced into hiding as the old world disintegrates in revolution and terror.

The Assembly Herald

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1010 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Assembly Herald written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rosewater and Soda Bread

Author : Marsha Mehran
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307544664
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Rosewater and Soda Bread written by Marsha Mehran and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Mehran’s novel delights the senses on every page. The story pulses with life as three Iranian sisters struggle to make sense of matters of the heart and the spirit.” –Elizabeth Cox, author of The Slow Moon More than a year has passed since Marjan, Bahar, and Layla, the beautiful Iranian Aminpour sisters, sought refuge in the quaint Irish town of Ballinacroagh. Opening the beguiling Babylon Café, they charmed the locals with their warm hearts and delectable Persian cuisine, bringing a saffron-scented spice to the once-sleepy village. But when a young woman with a dark secret literally washes up on Clew Bay Beach, the sisters’ world is once again turned upside down. With pale skin and webbed hands, the girl is otherworldly, but her wounds tell a more earthly (and graver) story–one that sends the strict Catholic town into an uproar. The Aminpours rally around the newcomer, but each sister must also contend with her own transformation–Marjan tests her feelings for love with a dashing writer, Bahar takes on a new spiritual commitment with the help of Father Mahoney, and Layla matures into a young woman when she and her boyfriend, Malachy, step up their hot and heavy relationship. Filled with mouthwatering recipes and enchanting details of life in Ireland, Rosewater and Soda Bread is infused with a lyrical warmth that radiates from the Aminpour family and their big-hearted Italian landlady, Estelle, to the whole of Ballinacroagh–and the world beyond. Praise for Marsha Mehran’s Pomegranate Soup “A mouthwatering tale with flavors of Chocolat and Under the Tuscan Sun . . . sinfully sweet and satisfying.” –Orlando Sentinel “Glorious, daring, and delightful, filled with humor, hope, and possibility.” –Adriana Trigiani, author of the Big Stone Gap novels “An enchanting tale of love, family, and renewal.” –Firoozeh Dumas, author of Laughing Without an Accent

In the Land of the Lion and Sun, Or: Modern Persia

Author : Charles J. Wills
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book In the Land of the Lion and Sun, Or: Modern Persia written by Charles J. Wills and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women of All Nations

Author : Thomas Athol Joyce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women of All Nations written by Thomas Athol Joyce and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of Women in the West

Author : Georges Duby
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674403697
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book A History of Women in the West written by Georges Duby and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the legal, social, and religious position of women in the Greco-Roman world, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Industrial Revolution, and modern era.

The Boarding School Girls

Author : Soosan Latham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351745662
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book The Boarding School Girls written by Soosan Latham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They were children. Put on a train in a strange land, they waved goodbye to a parent as they headed to an educational institution that, unbeknownst to them, was to become their new home. Separated from their loving families, they strived to meet the expectations of the grownups and, in some cases, to rebel against them. Now, independent women, compassionate mothers, and astute professionals, they look back on their youth in the 1960’s and 1970’s to make sense of why they were sent away, and to give meaning to the sources that have sustained them over the years. Ex-boarders themselves, Latham and Ferdows provide vivid and emotionally embodied narratives of everyday lives of The Boarding School Girls. This unique collection of stories explores key issues of identity and lifespan development to seek understanding of the influence of national, religious and family culture on development within two conflicting sets of cultural values. Combining unique qualitative data with illuminating tales of resilience and accomplishment in what is likely to simultaneously inform and inspire readers with feelings of joy and sadness, love and hate, abandonment and hope, but mainly trust and forgiveness. The stories of eleven ‘little rich’ Persian girls are a nostalgic reminder of their past cross-cultural ordeals, a pragmatic perspective on psychological implications of boarding school education in England, and a celebration of the possibilities of the future. The Boarding School Girls is valuable reading for students in cultural, developmental and educational psychology and the humanities, as well as clinical psychologists and educators looking at the impact of boarding school on adolescent development.

The Missionary Review of the World

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1030 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Missionary Review of the World written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: