Title: The lonely war
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"--
Subjects: Politics and government, Influence, Social change, Middle class, Social conditions, Women journalists, Women, Childhood and youth, Biography, History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, New York Times reviewed, Iran, history, Iran, politics and government, Women, iran, Women, biography, Iran, social conditions, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Places: Iran
People: Nazila Fathi (1970-)
Time periods: 1979-1997, Revolution, 1979, 1997-