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- Location(s): Iran
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1950s
Drawn to the exoticism and mystery of names on a map of Iran – Isfahan, Shiraz, Meshed, Kerman, Khorassan – Michael Carroll embarked on a journey that took him through the heart of the country from the Taurus mountains...
- Location(s): Iran
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1979 onwards
The book is essentially a memoir of Shirin Ebadi’s life from the time she enters Tehran University and graduates as the top Law student up to when she she was representing the reporter Akbar Ganji as his lawyer.
- Location(s): Iran
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
Betty Mahmoody and her husband, Dr Sayyed Bozorg Mahmoody (‘Moody’), came to Iran from the USA to meet Moody’s family. With them was their four-year-old daughter, Mahtob. Appalled by the squalor of their living conditions, horrified by what she...
- Location(s): Iran
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
“A Dangerous Element” is based heavily on events you’ll be surprised to see in the news. It will take you past the Iranian borders into their nuclear weapons development and uncover a top-secret weapon developed by DARPA – through...
- Location(s): Iran
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The Islamic revolution in Iran did not arise out of thin air. For years, the country had seethed with repressed resentment of the Shah’s heavy-handed, authoritarian policies. Illegal societies operated underground, some tracing back to the beginning of the...
- Location(s): Azerbaijan, Georgia (Asia), Tehran
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Russian Revolution (1917-18)
Ali Khan is an Islamic boy from Azerbaijan with his ancestors’ passion for the desert and warrior legends, but his lover Nino, a beautiful Christian girl from Georgia, is the child with a more European sensibility. Close to one...
- Location(s): Iran, Istanbul (Constantinople), Ottoman Empire, Vienna
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 17th century
Evliya Celebi was the Pepys of the Ottoman world—a diligent, adventurous and honest recorder with a puckish wit and humour. He is in the pantheon of the great travel-writers of the world, though virtually unknown to western readers. This...
- Location(s): Iran
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): early 20th century
Growing up as part of a Muslim nomadic tribe in Iran one hundred years ago, Anahita has always been headstrong and independent. When her parents try to make a marriage match between her and her tribe’s khan (a type...
- Location(s): Tehran
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
When radical Iranian students seize the U.S. Embassy compound in Tehran and take over fifty diplomats hostage the U.S. President has to negotiate with a government that wants only to humiliate the United States. When talks fail, the President...
Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
- Location(s): Iran
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1979
On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal and a quake in global politics still reverberating today. But there is a little-known drama connected to...
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