TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fathi,Nazila
TI  - The lonely war: one woman's account of the struggle for modern Iran 
SN  - 9780465069996 :
AV  - DS318.81 .F38 2014
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
KW  - Fathi, Nazila,
KW  - Women
KW  - Iran
KW  - Biography
KW  - Women journalists
KW  - Social change
KW  - Middle class
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - History
KW  - Revolution, 1979
KW  - Influence
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1979-1997
KW  - 1997-
KW  - Social conditions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-284) and index; Part One. The Formative Years, 1979-1989 -- The Revolution -- Nessa -- The Time of Horror -- "World Powers Did It!" -- The Cleansing -- The War -- Our Bodies, Our Battlefields -- Masoud -- The War Ends -- Part Two. Awakening. 1989-1999 -- After Khomeini -- Meeting a Hawk -- The Intelligence Ministry -- The War Revisited -- The Walls Come Crashing Down -- Nessa Mourns -- A Force for Change -- Reform -- The Regime Strikes Back -- Part Three. The Decade of Confrontation, 1999-2009 -- The Reformists Speak Out -- No Fear of Authority -- The "Good" Children of the Revolution -- The "Bad" Children of the Revolution -- Nasrin -- The Rising Tide -- End of an Era -- Exile
N2  - "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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