Cultural books from Iran
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If you are into cultural here are some cultural books from Iran for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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From Miniskirt to Hijab : A Girl in Revolutionary Iran by Jacqueline Saper EN
Description:
Jacqueline Saper, named after Jacqueline Kennedy, was born in Tehran to Iranian and British parents. At eighteen she witnessed the civil unrest of the 1979 Iranian revolution and continued to live in the Islamic Republic during its most volatile times, including the Iran-Iraq War. In a deeply intimate and personal story, Saper recounts her privileged childhood in prerevolutionary Iran and how she gradually became aware of the paradoxes in her life and community—primarily the disparate religions and cultures. In 1979 under the Ayatollah regime, Iran became increasingly unfamiliar and hostile to... continue