iran

Hooman Majd, an American journalist born in Iran, disembarked at the Tehran airport in February 2011. With him were his wife Karri and infant son, Khash. The family planned to stay for a year, and Hooman, son of a diplomat under the Shah and grandson of an ayatollah, was looking forward to his visit, the first time he had lived in his homeland since childhood. His book recounts his family's domestic adventures and a tumultuous year in Iranian politics. The result provides an unusual insight into a little-understood country.

The Iran of Reza Kahlili's youth allowed him to think and act freely. His political and personal freedoms flourished while he studied computer science at the University of Southern California in the 1970's. The sudden death of his father brought him back to an Iran he scarely recognized. The revolution of 1979 plunged Iran into a dark age of fundamentalism. In the hope of a Persian Renaissance, he joined the Revolutionary Guards, an elite force devoted to the Ayatollah. But Ayatollah Khomeini was becoming a fundamentalist tyrant and so Reza became "Wally", and worked for the CIA as he continued his life as a Revolutionary Guard.

Contains twenty-three essays offering different perspectives on Iran's green movement, discussing it's true nature, whether or not it's related to uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, and the future of the movement.

Presents an overview of the struggle for women's rights in Iran, chronicling the events, organizations, and leaders of the movement.

The true story of Betty Mahmoody's desperate struggle to survive and to escape with her daughter from the alien and frightening culture of Iran.

Discusses the historical origins, culture, contemporary social organization, day-to-day life, and future hopes of the Kurds of Kurdistan, an area within the boundaries of Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Russia.

A young prince must prove his innocence after being accused of killing his father, and in order to do so, he has to rely on help from a rival princess and reverse time with a magic dagger.

A fictional account of an Assyrian family on the run from the Turkish army in 1918. Young Samira loses her parents and ends up being shuffled from one refugee camp to another until an orphanage director comes up with a daring plan to take 300 orphans back to their villages. The children will have to make a journey of 300 miles on foot.

Examines the history of Iran and discusses how the country came to be the most significant Shiite power in the Islamic world.