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The lonely war, one woman's account of the struggle for modern Iran, Nazila Fathi

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-284) and index

contains biographical information

mapsplatesillustrations

index present

non fiction

The lonely war

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Nazila Fathi

one woman's account of the struggle for modern Iran

"As a nine-year-old Tehrani schoolgirl during the Iranian Revolution, Nazila Fathi watched her country change before her eyes. The revolutionaries--most of them poor, uneducated, and radicalized--seized 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"-- Provided by publisher