Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Lonely War

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

893331975

Sub title

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

Table Of Contents

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Prologue: Surveillance; Part One: The Formative Years, 1979-1989; One: The Revolution; Two: Nessa; Three: The Time of Horror; Four: "World Powers did It!"; Five: The Cleansing; Six: The War; Seven: Our Bodies, Our Battlefields; Eight: Masoud; Nine: The War Ends; Part Two: Awakening, 1989-1999; Ten: After Khomeini; Eleven: Meeting A Hawk; Twelve: The Intelligence Ministry; Thirteen: The War Revisited; Fourteen: The Walls Come Crashing Down; Fifteen: Nessa Mourns; Sixteen: A Force for Change; Seventeen: ReformEighteen: 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

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