The Lonely War: One Woman's Account of the Struggle for Modern Iran

Author/Contributor(s):	Fathi, Nazila
Publisher:	Basic Books
Date:	12/09/2014
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

"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"--