Tehran Lipstick And Loopholes

Author : Nahal Tajadod
Publisher : Virago
ISBN 13 : 0748111409
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tehran, Lipstick and Loopholes written by Nahal Tajadod and published by Virago. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wry and humorous account of the author's quest to get her Iranian passport renewed. She embarks on a bizarre and circuitous journey, meeting a colourful cast of characters along the way: two photographers who specialise in Islamic portraits, a forensic surgeon who trades in human organs, a madam who wants to send prostitutes to Dubai and a grandmother who offers a live chicken to an implacable official. Tehran, Lipstick and Loopholes is a fascinating look at the constraints and contradictions of contemporary life in Tehran from the author's unique standpoint of being both a native of Iran and a foreigner.

Author : Sanaz Fotouhi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 085773766X
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Literature of the Iranian Diaspora written by Sanaz Fotouhi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-03 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1979 Revolution in Iran caused the migration of millions of Iranians, many of whom wrote, and are still writing, of their experiences. Formed at the junctions of Iranian culture, English language and Western cultures, this body of work has not only formed a unique literary space, offering an insightful reflection of Iranian diasporic experiences and its shifting nature, but it has also been making a unique and understudied contribution to World Literatures in English as significant as Indian, African and Asian writing in English. Sanaz Fotouhi here traces the origins of the emerging body of diasporic Iranian literature in English, and uses these origins to examine the socio-political position and historical context from which they have emerged. Fotouhi brings together, introduces and analyses, for the first time, a significant range of diasporic Iranian writers alongside each other and alongside other diasporic literatures in English. While situating this body of work through existing theories such as postcolonialism, Fotouhi sheds new light on the role of Iranian literature and culture in Western literature by showing that these writings distinctively reflect experiences unique to the Iranian diaspora. Analysing the relationship between Iranians and their new surroundings, by drawing on theories of migration, narration and identity, Fotouhi examines how the literature borne out of the Iranian diaspora reconstructs, maintains and negotiates their Individual and communal identities and reflects today's socio-political realities. This book will be vital for researchers of Middle Eastern literature and its relationship with writings from the West, as well as those interested in the cultural history of the Middle East.

Author : Tonino Benacquista
Publisher : Bitter Lemon Press
ISBN 13 : 1908524146
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Framed written by Tonino Benacquista and published by Bitter Lemon Press. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Holy Smoke, the first in the Antoine series: “A terrific black comedy …both a blasphemously funny satire of provincial Italian chicanery and a wry acknowledgment of the ambivalence that ambitious immigrants feel about their roots.”—The New York Times “Unexpected deadly demands made in the name of friendship inspire the plot of this quirky mystery novel. Irreverently inveighs against romantic love, cancer and the Paris suburbs.”—The Washington Post “An iconoclastic chronicle of small-time crooks and desperate capers, with added Gallic and Italian flair. Wonderful fun.”—Guardian Antoine, a fanatic billiards player, is asked to watch over a Paris art gallery. When he scuffles with a thief a statue falls and severs his right hand. His maverick investigation leads to the discovery of a series of gruesome killings. Soon Antoine finds himself the prime suspect in the murder of a gallery owner. A game of billiards decides the outcome of this satirical tale which brilliantly captures the world of modern art and the parasites that infest it. After being, in turn, a museum night-watchman, and a train guard on the Paris-Rome line, Tonino Benacquista is now a highly successful author of fiction and film scripts.

Author : Genevieve Jurgensen
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393320602
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Disappearance written by Genevieve Jurgensen and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000-06 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do, how do you live, when both of your daughters are killed on the same afternoon? Jurgensen found herself facing that question when she lost her daughters, ages four and seven, to a drunk driver. "A lyrical and haunting memoir".--"Kirkus Reviews".

Author : Herv# Le Tellier
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590513991
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enough About Love written by Herv# Le Tellier and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestselling and Goncourt Prize-Winning Author of The Anomaly Any man—or woman—who wants to hear nothing—or no more—about love should put this book down. Anna and Louise could be sisters, but they don’t know each other. They are both married with children, and for the most part, they are happy. On almost the same day, Anna, a psychiatrist, crosses paths with Yves, a writer, while Louise, a lawyer, meets Anna’s analyst, Thomas. Love at first sight is still possible for those into their forties and long-married. But when you have already mapped out a life path, a passionate affair can come at a high price. For our four characters, their lives are unexpectedly turned upside down by the deliciously inconvenient arrival of love. For Anna, meeting Yves has brought a flurry of excitement to her life and made her question her values, her reliable husband, and her responsibilities to her children. For Louise, a successful career woman in a stable and comfortable marriage, her routine is uprooted by the youthful passion she feels for Thomas. Thought-provoking, sophisticated, and, above all, amusing, Enough About Love captures the euphoria of desire through tender and unflinching portraits of husbands, wives, and lovers.

Author : Azadeh Moaveni
Publisher : Public Affairs
ISBN 13 : 9781586481933
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lipstick Jihad written by Azadeh Moaveni and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young Iranian-American journalist returns to Tehran and discovers not only the oppressive and decadent life of her Iranian counterparts who have grown up since the revolution, but the pain of searching for a homeland that may not exist.

Author : Parisa Reza
Publisher : Europa Editions UK
ISBN 13 : 1787700291
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gardens of Consolation written by Parisa Reza and published by Europa Editions UK. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful love story unfolds against the backdrop of a rapidly changing Iran. In the early 1920s in the remote village of Ghamsar, Talla and Sardar, two teenagers dreaming of a better life, fall in love and marry. Sardar brings his young bride with him across the mountains to the suburbs of Tehran, where the couple settles down and builds a home. From the outskirts of the capital city, they will watch as the Qajar dynasty falls and Reza Khan rises to power as Reza Shah Pahlavi. Into this family of illiterate shepherds is born Bahram, a boy whose brilliance and intellectual promise are apparent from a very young age. Through his education, Bahram will become a fervent follower of reformer Mohamed Mossadegh and will participate first hand in his country's political and social upheavals.

Author : Nahal Tajadod
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9780715641583
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rumi written by Nahal Tajadod and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The passionate tale of the world's most beloved scholar, teacher and poet.

Author : Louis Sanders
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781845057565
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death in the Dordogne written by Louis Sanders and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you moved out of North London to a picturesque hamlet in the Dordogne no one said it would be like this in February: freezing cold, dark by mid-afternoon and so quiet. Members of the Caminade family keep dying in suspicious circumstances, and the doctor knows more about it than he's prepared to reveal. You're sure there's a murderer at large: could it be the Old Dutch Woman or her deranged son, or the Mad Englishman from over the hill, and could you be the next victim, maybe you're imagining things, maybe it's the whisky, but then what's that scratching sound coming from the other half of the house... The first in a series, Death in the Dordogne portrays a rural France very different from A Year in Provence and other saccharine tales of expatriate derring-do. It is an essential book for everyone planning to go on a French holiday.

Author : E. Wayne Ross
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438453175
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Studies Curriculum, The, Fourth Edition written by E. Wayne Ross and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully revised and updated edition includes twelve new chapters on contemporary topics such as ecological democracy, Native studies, inquiry teaching, and Islamophobia. The Social Studies Curriculum, Fourth Edition updates the definitive overview of the issues teachers face when creating learning experiences for students in social studies. The book connects the diverse elements of the social studies curriculum—civic, global, social issues—offering a unique and critical perspective that separates it from other texts. Completely updated, this book includes twelve new chapters on the history of the social studies; democratic social studies; citizenship education; anarchist inspired transformative social studies; patriotism; ecological democracy; Native studies; inquiry teaching; Islamophobia; capitalism and class struggle; gender, sex, sexuality, and youth experiences in school; and critical media literacy. All the chapters from the previous edition have been thoroughly revised and updated, including those on teaching social studies in the age of curriculum standardization and high-stakes testing, critical multicultural social studies, prejudice and racism, assessment, and teaching democracy. Readers are encouraged to reconsider their assumptions and understanding about the origins, purposes, nature, and possibilities of the social studies curriculum.