The lonely war
Subtitle: one woman's account of the struggle for modern Iran
By: Nazila Fathi
Publisher: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780465069996
Subjects: Politics and government; Influence; Social change; Middle class; Social conditions; Women journalists; Women; Childhood and youth; Biography; History
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-284) and index.
Table of contents: title: Surveillance; title: The formative years, 1979-1989. The revolution ; Nessa ; The time of horror ; "World powers did it!" ; The cleansing ; The war ; Our bodies, our battlefields ; Masoud ; The war ends; title: Awakening, 1989-1999. After Khomeini ; Meeting a hawk ; The Intelligence Ministry ; The war revisited ; The walls come crashing down ; Nessa mourns ; A force for change ; Reform ; The regime strikes back; title: The decade of confrontation, 1999-2009. The reformers speak out ; No fear of authority ; The "good" children of the revolution ; The "bad" children of the revolution ; Nasrin ; The rising tide ; End of an era ; Exile.