The lonely war : one woman's account of the struggle for modern Iran / Nazila Fathi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fathi, Nazila, 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fathi, Nazila, 1970-.

Fathi, Nazila.

Fathi, Nazila, 1970---Childhood and youth.

Women--Iran--Biography.

Women.

Women journalists--Iran--Biography.

Women journalists.

Social change--Iran.

Social change.

Middle class--Iran.

Middle class.

Iran--History--Revolution, 1979--Influence.

Iran.

Iran--Politics and government--1979-1997.

Iran--Politics and government--1997-.

Iran--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (484 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

2014.

New York, New York : Basic Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Prologue: Surveillance; Part One: The Formative Years, 1979-1989; One: The Revolution; Two: Nessa; Three: The Time of Horror; Four: "World Powers did It!"; Five: The Cleansing; Six: The War; Seven: Our Bodies, Our Battlefields; Eight: Masoud; Nine: The War Ends; Part Two: Awakening, 1989-1999; Ten: After Khomeini; Eleven: Meeting A Hawk; Twelve: The Intelligence Ministry; Thirteen: The War Revisited; Fourteen: The Walls Come Crashing Down; Fifteen: Nessa Mourns; Sixteen: A Force for Change; Seventeen: Reform

Eighteen: The Regime Strikes BackPart Three: The Decade of Confrontation, 1999-2009; Nineteen: The Reformers Speak Out; Twenty: No Fear of Authority; Twenty-One: The "Good" Children of the Revolution; Twenty-Two: The "Bad" Children of the Revolution; Twenty-Three: Nasrin; Twenty-Four: The Rising Tide; Twenty-Five: End of an Era; Twenty-Six: Exile; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-465-04092-6