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The lonely war One Woman's Account of the Struggle for Modern Iran

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...

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Main Author: Fathi, Nazila
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Language:English
Published: 2014.
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Summary: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. And unless an international confrontation allows Iranian leaders to justify an internal crackdown, this internal pressure for reform will soon set the country on a more stable track. In The Lonely War, Fathi describes Iran's awakening alongside her own, revealing how moderates are retaking the country -- and how foreign powers can aid their progress.
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ISBN:9780465040926
Author Notes:Nazila Fathi worked for two decades as an Iranian correspondent for the New York Times before being forced to flee the country in 2009 at the height of the Green Revolution. Currently a writer for NPR and Foreign Policy and a commentator for Persian Language Voice of America television, she has held fellowships at Harvard University's Belfer Center at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard's Shorenstein Center for Press and Politics, and Harvard's Nieman Foundation, as well as at Lund University in Sweden. Fathi holds an MA in Political Science and Women's Studies from the University of Toronto.

A frequent guest on BBC, CNN, NPR, and Fox News, she has also written for the New York Review of Books, Time , CNN.com, Agence France-Presse , Harvard's Nieman Reports , and the online news outlets openDemocracy and GlobalPost.

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