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A Profile in Courage
Translated from the Persian by Mahmoud Sadre. Foreword by Ervand Abrahamian.
by Hassan Sadr
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Hassan Sadr, the author of previously unpublished notes on Dr. Mossadegh, is historically important for a number of reasons. He was Dr. Mossadegh’s personal lawyer at various times; represented the country at the International Court of the Hague during the...

$25.00
A Stone on a Grave
Translated from the Persian by Azfar Moin.
by Jalal Al-e Ahmad
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Sangi bar Guri [A Stone on a Grave] is a candid account of a male Iranian, in this case, a well-known essayist, fiction writer and socially and politically engaged intellectual, in his struggle to cope with his inability to produce offspring. In this book,...

$15.00
Beta
by Haleh Hamedifar
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Although traditionally, writing memoirs, as this genre is understood in the Western world, especially women’s memoirs, has been relatively rare in Persian, since the latter years of the 20th century, an increasing number of women from various classes...

$35.00
De Vita Sua
by Nina Garsoïan
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Dr. Nina Garsoïan begins her masterfully written autobiography by introducing the reader to the émigré world into which she was born. She paints candid pictures of her parents and grandparents, ethnic Armenians who had never lived in Armenia. In the early...

$30.00
Ferdowsi: A Critical Biography
Second printing, 2012
by A. Shapur Shahbazi (1942-2006)
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NOTE: This book was first published in 1991 by Mazda Publishers in hardcover edition. **** The present study offers the first critical biography of Ferdowsi who, ten centuries ago, gathered historical traditions of various Iranians and recast them in epic...

$19.95
Greater Iran
by Richard N. Frye
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These memoirs of a founder of Middle Eastern studies at U.S. institutions reveal more than the events of a life spent in intimate contact with many peoples of Eurasia. Although mainly concerned with “Greater Iran” (Afghanistan, Iran/Persia and...

$40.00
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This is the first comprehensive bibliographic treatment of Persian short story collections to appear in any language, and the first major biblio- graphic reference for contemporary Persian literature in many years. While the focus is on short stories in...

$29.95
Living, Loving Iran
by James F. Goode
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NOTE: Also available in Kindle format at lower price. 1- Click on "Select Format" 2- Select "eBook Download" 3- Select "AMAZON KINDLE" In 1968, James Goode became a Peace Corps Volunteer assigned to teach English in the...

$25.00
One Woman’s War: Da [Mother]
Translated from the Persian by Paul Sprachman
by Zahra Hoseyni
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"One Woman’s War (Da)" is many things. Part autobiography, part oral history of the Iran-Iraq War (1980–88), the work is the story of Zahra Hoseyni, a female descendant of the Prophet Mohammad (thereby termed a seyyedeh), whose Kurdish family found refuge in...

$10.00
Persia is My Homeland
Collected, Compiled and Transcribed by David M. McDowell with Introduction, Conclusion, Notes, and Selected Readings by Thomas M. Ricks, Ph.D.
by Sarah Wright McDowell (1893-1981)
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The diaries, letters and essays are extraordinary and factual eyewitness accounts of Tabriz and Tehran’s social, military and political life in the tumultuous days and years of Iran’s Constitutional Revolution and Tabriz’s ten-month siege....

$45.00