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Book excerpts, reviews...
Foucault's
revolution
French philosopher's views on the 1979 revolution
Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson
My
people
Interview
with the author of "Searching for Hassan"
Fariba Amini
A
love letter to Iran
Fasten your seat belts. You are going to meet the most notable
Iranology scholars of the 20th century
Majid Tehranian
Time
tells
Former Mojahed tries to come clean
Farid Parsa
Everything
will be fine
Excerpt from "Even After All this Time"
Afschineh Latifi
Modern
Persian
New books with audio CD
Donald Stilo, Kamran Talattof and Jerome Clinton
Critique
versus criticism
A writer’s response
Zohreh Khazai Ghahremani
As
you wish
Excerpts from "A Persian Letter"
Nasser Shojania
Iran
with Lolita in Persepolis
Presentations of the Iranian Revolution by Nafisi and Satrapi
Teresa Camacho
Sharing
your sorrow
Sometimes one writes to hold a hand across
the universe and to use one’s knowledge and pave the way for others
Zohreh Khazai Ghahremani
Lazy
lechers
Excerpt from "Lipstick Jihad"
Azadeh Moaveni
Jamshid
and the Lost Mountain of Light
Children's book
Howard Lee
Time
in circles
"Their faces are grave under their
turbans, but their eyes smile"
Farid Parsa
Parpin
flowers
Excerpt from a novel
Akbar Golrang
Poetry
and revolution
Hakakian's book is a seemingly simple yet complex composition of
at once tender and bitter memories
Homa Nasab
My
journey with the Shahnameh
Turning Rostam into an American comic hero
Behrouz Bahmani
Saba
in Australia
Individual journey with Hafiz
Farid Parsa
Delvaapas-e
Shaadmaani-ye to Hastam
Letters of Khalil Gibran and Mary Haskell
Majid Roshangar
Time
and place
How strange it feels to sit across the globe in another century
and have an American writer hand me a slice of my own past
Zohreh Khazai Ghahremani
Time
and place
How strange it feels to sit across the globe in another century
and have an American writer hand me a slice of my own past
Zohreh Khazai Ghahremani
Ketab-e
neek
Excerpt from a book on Zarathustra's influence on major world
religions
Paul Kriwaczek
Superior
inferior
Excerpt from "The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict
between Iran and America"
Kenneth M. Pollack
Letters
from Ahmad Abad
Mossadegh's letters to his trusted friend and lawyer
Fariba Amini
Without
borders
Arabs: Their sorrow became mine
Zohreh Khazai Ghahremani
Poignant
surprise
Re-reading Lolita in Tehran
Azadeh Azad
Paaderang
Book of poetry
Namdar Nasser
The
pill
Marjane Satrapi's comic strip memoir, Vol. 2
A
film buff remembers
A book every movie fan should buy
Fereydoun Hoveyda
Seeing
much more
Hosseini depicts an Afghanistan no camera or news report has succeeded
to show
Zohreh Khazai Ghahremani
To
rest at last
Excerpt from Roya Hakakian's Journey from the Land
of No
Imperial
hubris
Book excerpt: Why the West is losing the war on terror
Anonymous
Sunset of Empire
Introduction and illustrations from
Mage's third volume of the Shahnameh
Translated by
Dick Davis
A
huge conservation project
Interview with Dick Davis, translator of the Shahnameh
Jahanshah Javid
Good
cop, bad cop
How to deal with Iran
Roger Howard
Civic
power and violence
Torture and democracy
Darius Rejali
Gone
Fereshteh Kowssar's "The Outrage of Silence"
By Roya Hakakian
Unique
experience
Memoirs of scholar with intimate knowledge of Iranians
By Richard Nelson Frye
Taareekh-e
ahzaab
Iran's political parties in a span of 100 years
By Younes Parsa Benab
Sitting
with a statesman
Oral history: Mahmoud Foroughi
By Habib Ladjevardi
Starry
nights
Excerpts
By Majid
Sargozasht-e
yek eskenaas
From "Daastaanhaayeh Raasteen"
By Amir Mehdi Noorbakhsh
For
Queen's Sykes
Sir Percy Sykes: British spy in Iran
By Farid Parsa
Kafi
is Kafi
From Abbas Milani's new book
Tak
Nafar
Excerpt & interview
Keyvan Fotoohi
Lasting
impressions
Roshangar's Baressi-Ketab covers the most vital and
interesting writing in Persian today
By Zara Houshmand
Funny
in any language
Interview with author Firoozeh Dumas
By Golnoosh Niknejad
Women,
you lost big time!
Book: The Da Vinci Code
By Anoosh Ariapour
Something
very real
Unique legends and folklore that seem to allude to the Atlantis
myth were based on fact all along
By Robert Sarmast
Iranism
in time
Book: The Idea of Iran
By Ranin Kazemi
Loss
of a Ferdowsi scholar
The death of Jerome Clinton
By Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak
Passenger
to Tehran
Travel diary from 1926 Iran
By Vita Sackville-West
Farhang-e
estelaahaat-e zendaaniyaan-e siyaasi
Prison dictionary
By Azam Kiakojouri
The
forgotten prisoner
Abbas Amir-Entezam, Iran's longest-serving political prisoner
By Fariba Amini
Wake
up
A pedagogical approach to the defense of "Dardedel"
By Jolita Kavaliunas
Mystics,
monarchs and messiahs
Tensions that motivate change in Iranian society
By Kathryn Babayan
Whirling
spell
Excerpt from "Rumi & Friends"
By Hamid Zavosh
Familiar
fantasy
Similarities in Hergé's "Land of
the Black Pelican" and the "Land of the
Peacock Throne"
By Darius Kadivar
The
Book
"It's a book," I said. "Let me keep my goddam
book."
By Siamak Vossoughi
Notable
success!
A complete idiot's guide to the CIA
By Moe
Fuller
image
Satrapi's book showed me a more accurate and more human picture
of Iran and of Iranians
By Cathryn Clarke
Without
men
Parsipur's polyphonic novel
By Khatereh Sheibani
A
bridge to nowhere
Painful to watch Hafiz or Rumi turned into soulless, prosaic,
meaningless platitudes
By Fereshteh Davaran
We
need a break, for good
Khalil Maleki's letter to Mohammad Mossadegh and the godless
road ahead
By Jahanshah Javid
Ah!
That's why
Review: All the Shah's Men
By Behrouz Bruce Bahmani
Divine
nostalgia
Fantastic tension of the opposites
in Hafiz poems
Interview with Paul Smith by Farid Parsa
He
is us
In defense of "Dardedel"
By Rob Levandoski
Project
Norouz
Noticing a novel set in Iran that caused
a stir 20 years ago
By Guive
Mirfendereski
Book >>>>> Excerpts
A
raw deal
The Shah and the Ayatollah six months before
the revolution
By Bahram Bahramian
Persian
From
Abadan to Whittier
Coming to
America
By Firoozeh Dumas
Aakhar-e
ta'ziyeh
Short story
By Mahshid Amirshahi
Ketaabi
az Mossadegh
Notes
on reprinting a Mossadegh book
By Ramin
Kamran
First
heart beat
Forough Farrokhzad's letters to her husband
Monarchy
and theocracy
The Impact of Iranian mythology on the Islamic revolution
By Fereydoun Hoveyda
Man
babr neestam
>>>>> Excerpt from a novel
By Mohammad Reza Safdari
Turning
White
>>>>> Excerpt from a novel
By Nader Habibi
Who's
really in charge
Fundamental weakness of the Iranian press
By Geneive Abdo and Jonathan
Lyons
Khoda
Hafez Rumi
Book review: Manouchehr Parvin's Dardedel
By Fereshteh Davaran
Private
talk without shame
Conversation with author of "Dardedel"
By Ali Akbar Mahdi
Not
bad for a mortal
Introduction & first chapter
By Manoucher Parvin
The
great land of the Sophy
Persian influences
By Abbas Milani
Dast-e
pashmaaloo-ee shaayad az gheyb
On Shaban "Bimokh" Jafari
By Mohammad Ghaed
The
Pearly Cannon
Tup-e Morvari
By Sadeq Hedayat
For
the explorer
Luristan, 1930
By Freya Stark
Days
of our lives
A memoir in comic strips
By Marjane Satrapi
A
separate world
Novel
By Anahita Firouz
Saal-haaye
sarkoob
A reply from a former member of the Mojahedin
Khalgh
By Mohsen Nejat
Pilgrim
"This is a book about Iran and Iranians"
By Afshin Molavi
Student
opposition
A history
By Afshin Matin-Asgari
Hamishe
no
Takht hozi songs
By Morteza Ahmadi
Aah
o naaleh
Sadegh Hedayat's post cards
Nimeye
Ghaayeb
>>>>> Excerpt
By Hossein Sanapour
Conception
of gender roles
Reza Shah's "Women's Awakening Project"
By Camron Michael Amin
Required
reading
A basic window of exposure to the dual nature
of the Iranian psyche
By Mark Dankof
Greetings
Book >>>>> Excerpt
From the 5th edition of Simin Daneshvar's "Beh ki salaam konanm?"
Helen
of Tus
The first known Iranian-Americans
By Behrouz Bahmani
The
Magi, revisited
Another translation of Marco Polo's classic
By H. Behzadi
All I really need
is to be quiet, sit still, and read some Hafiz
By Arezou Raeisghasem
Khanoom
Book
Shaban
The story of Shaban "Beemokh" Jafari
By Homa Sarshar
My
cup
Rumi's poetry
By Maryam Mafi
Future
of turmoil
When hell itself seeped its way into the most hopeful of dreams
By Norris R. Peery
Symphony
of the dead
Book
Searching
for Hassan
An American Family's Journey Home to Iran
Book review by Bruce Bahmani
Out
of the fog
Everything started and ended with Jamshid
By Reza T. Saberi
My
friend was wrong
Memoirs of a senior ayatollah
Edited by Habib Ladjevardi
Beyond
time and place
Sadeq Hedayat was a non-conformist in every
respect
By Homa Katouzian
Dobaare
saazihaaye Ataabak
Short story
By Yashar Ahmad Saremi
A
winner
Novel
By Sepideh Shamloo
Waiting
for a chance
Frustrated desires and perpetual lies
By Mark Mordue
Unveiling
of women & progress
On the idealized women of the other
By Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi
Gender
ideology
To what extent are equal rights for women tied
to issues of globalization?
By Jane Bayes and Nayereh Tohidi
Wonder
and magic
Growing reputation of Iranian cinema
By Hamid Dabashi
Democracy
will prevail
Akbar Ganji's trial
Aspects
of modernity
On Iranian history and gender
By Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi
Making
sense of faith and culture
Women turn the most patriarchal elements of shari'a
law to their advantage
By Fereydoun Safizadeh
Sacred
vs. Secular
Book
By Samuel Huntington
Fate
not in our hands?
Only fools set out without using their heads
By Saadi
Dark
emerald
Agatha Christie in Shiraz
By Cyrus Kadivar
Temptation
to plunder
We brought not a relic from Ephesus!
From Haj Mirza Khan
Lagging
behind
Book
By Kazem Alamdari
A
good person
Novel
By Salman Rushdie
Hossein
Party
Turning the sacred into an instrument of joy
By Behzad Yaghmaian
Why
would I repent?
Novel
By Farnoosh Moshiri
Pesari
kenaare panjereh
Short story
By Houshang Ashourzadeh
Life
in Evin
Book >>>>> Excerpt
By Ebrahim Nabavi
Old
spoils and the sea
Diplomatic history of the Caspian Sea
By Guive Mirfendereski
Qesmat?
Book >>>>> Excerpt
By Azar Arayan-Pour
Here & there
Imagined territory of exilic identity and of all identity formation
By Zohreh T. Sullivan |
