iran

Recounts the author's experiences fleeing Iran as a young boy during the Iran-Iraq war, and making his way on his own in the unfamiliar city of Istanbul in hopes of attaining a visa in England.

Chronicles the role of Canadian ambassador Ken Taylor, his wife, and embassy staffers, in concealing six American diplomats in their homes after they escaped the hostage situation that occurred when Iranian students seized the American embassy in 1979.

Abbas Kazerooni recalls his time in England as a ten-year-old having fled the Iranian army only to find himself homeless and without a visa by the age of thirteen.

"This story of the virus that destroyed Iran's nuclear centrifuges ... shows that the door has been opened on a new age of warfare--one in which a digital attack can have the same destructive capability as a megaton bomb dropped from an airplane"--Provided by publisher.

The author describes being the child smuggled out of Iran by her mother decades ago and made famous by the movie "Not Without My Daughter." Now she recounts what their journey was like from a child's perspective, her life since her escape, and how she overcame fear and trauma to start a new life of peace and forgiveness.

In post-revolutionary Iran, small, everyday moments--a woman trying to get her diploma, an ambulance ride, a meeting on a park bench--come together to paint a picture of a young generation's struggle against new totalitarian rule.

"In this searing memoir, Iran-born author Rahimeh Andalibian tells the story of her family: their struggle to survive the 1979 revolution, their move to California, and their attempts to acculturate in the face of teenage rebellion, murder, addiction, and new traditions. Andalibian struggles to make sense of two brutal crimes: a rape, solved by her father, and a murder, of which her beloved oldest brother stands accused. She takes us first into her family's tranquil, jasmine-scented days of prosperity in their luxury hotel in Mashhad, Iran. Their life is ruptured by the 1979 revolution as they flee: first to the safety of a mansion in Tehran, next to a squalid one-room flat in London, and finally to California, where they suffer a different kind of revolution. Struggling to adjust to a new host culture, they soon discover that although they escaped Iran, they are not free from their own lies and hidden truths. As the family comes to grips with their new home, the strength of their bonds are tested by love, loyalty, compassion, hate, pain, loss--and the will to survive. Heartbreaking and intimately told, this is a universal story of healing, rebirth after tragedy, and hard-won redemption"--.

Discusses several cultural events and holidays in Iran.

Presents the work of twelve women photographers from Iran and the Arab world.

Maziar Bahari left London in June 2009 for Iran, assuring his pregnant fiancee that he'd be back in a few days, a week at most. But instead he would spend time in Iran's most notorious prison, enduring brutal interrogations at the hands of a man he only knew by his smell: rosewater. The Bahari family was familiar with wars, coups, and revolutions. Well-known in Iran, imprisonment had come to several Bahari family members in the 1950's and the 1980's. This book presents insights into seventy years of Iranian regime change.