Persia

Persia refers to the historic region centred on the area around the modern-day Iranian Republic and Afghanistan. There have been a number of important empires based from this region since the 8th century BC.

Notable Persian empires include the Seleucid Empire (312–63 BC), the Sasanian Empire (224–651), and the Seljuk Empire (1037–1194).

Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
The Blood of Flowers
Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
رباعيات خيام
Empire of the Mind: A History of Iran
The Histories
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
The Blind Owl
The Conference of the Birds
From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire
The Divan
The Persian Expedition
Creation
The Complete Persepolis
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Iran and Iraq, Ancient and Modern
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War History Non Fiction
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Forough Farrokhzad
I dreamed of that red star when I wasn’t asleep
Forugh Farrokhzad, Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season

Soroosh Shahrivar
Iran is not a country that has fallen on hard times. Iran is a civilisation. No single government in its history has authority over it. This distinction matters. Countries can be rebuilt. Civilisations carry within them the seeds of their own regeneration.
Soroosh Shahrivar, The Iranian Doctrine

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