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

Summary: As a nine-year-old Tehrani schoolgirl during the Iranian Revolution, Nazila Fathi watched her country change before her eyes. The revolutionariesmost of them poor, uneducated, and radicalizedseized 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. And unless an international confrontation allows.

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ISBN: 0465040926
ISBN: 9780465040926
Physical Description: 1 online resource (484 p.)
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Publisher: New York : Basic Books, 2014.

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General Note:	Includes index. AC-SUB CatMonthString:march.16 Multi-User. Description based upon print version of record.
Formatted Contents Note:	Eighteen: The Regime Strikes BackPart Three: The Decade of Confrontation, 1999-2009; Nineteen: The Reformers Speak Out; Twenty: No Fear of Authority; Twenty-One: The "Good" Children of the Revolution; Twenty-Two: The "Bad" Children of the Revolution; Twenty-Three: Nasrin; Twenty-Four: The Rising Tide; Twenty-Five: End of an Era; Twenty-Six: Exile; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index