My Sister, Guard Your Veil; My Brother, Guard Your Eyes: Uncensored Iranian Voices
by Lila Azam Zanganeh
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Read in April, 2007
I found this accidentally while looking for Reza Aslan books, and I'm very glad that I happened upon it. A wonderful collection of memoirs, essays, stories, and interviews by Iranian artists, writers, actors, and scholars about a variety of issues affecting Iranian culture. I felt different after reading the numerous selections, especially the ones by Marjane Satrapi (of Persepolis fame), Shoreh Aghdashloo (Oscar nominated actress), Babak Ebrahimian, and Negar Azimi. The more I read about Iran a...more
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Read in August, 2007
Essays and interviews by and with Iranians about what life is really like in their home country, and about their receptions in and reactions to the rest of the world. As with many collections, some of these pieces were really excellent, while others were not; the interviews were in many ways the weakest, veering off into somewhat pretentious discussions of post-modern works I haven't seen. But I'm glad that (inspired, unsurprisingly, by Persepolis) I rea...more
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Read in September, 2007
Subtitle: Uncensored Iranian Voices.
Code Pink had recommended this book which I've borrowed from Bklyn Library. Brief essays by Iranian writers gives richness of perspectives. Highly recommend. Encourage libraries, especially high school libraries to purchase (it's in pb)!
Code Pink had recommended this book which I've borrowed from Bklyn Library. Brief essays by Iranian writers gives richness of perspectives. Highly recommend. Encourage libraries, especially high school libraries to purchase (it's in pb)!
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Read in April, 2008
the essays in here are brilliant. they deal with iran and a lot with feminism there, and well they are just great. i do not know a lot about iran, just some history of it that i read in college and then persepolis of course, so i feel like i am learning much.
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Read in May, 2008
Some of the chapters I would rate 4-5s and some 3s. It was a very good book in the sense that it help me understand a little bit the history and people of Iran.
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Read in February, 2008
a collection of Iran's best and brightest in their own words. unfortunately many are permanent ex-pats.
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Read in February, 2008
love these short stories. most are great. heard about it on To The Best of Our Knowledge.
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A very informative read that made me want to see more books on Iranian culture.
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Read in August, 2008
Great collection of short essays about the Iranian experience!
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