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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in BooksAzar Nafisi
$14.95(USD)
An inspired blend of memoir and literary criticism, Reading Lolita in Tehran is a moving testament to the power of art and its ability to change and improve people's lives. In 1995, after resigning from her job as a professor at a university in Tehran due to repressive policies, Azar Nafisi invited seven of her best female students to attend a weekly study of great Western literature in her home. Since the books they read were officially banned by the government, the women were forced to meet in secret, often sharing photocopied pages of the illegal novels. For two years they met to talk, share, and "shed their mandatory veils and robes and burst into color." Though most of the women were shy and intimidated at first, they soon became emboldened by the forum and used the meetings as a springboard for debating the social, cultural, and political realities of living under strict Islamic rule. They discussed their harassment at the hands of "morality guards," the daily indignities of living under the Ayatollah Khomeini's regime, the effects of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, love, marriage, and life in general, giving readers a rare inside look at revolutionary Iran. The books were always the primary focus, however, and they became "essential to our lives: they were not a luxury but a necessity," she writes.
Threaded into the memoir are trenchant discussions of the work of Vladimir Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen, and other authors who provided the women with examples of those who successfully asserted their autonomy despite great odds. The great works encouraged them to strike out against authoritarianism and repression in their own ways, both large and small: "There, in that living room, we rediscovered that we were also living, breathing human beings; and no matter how repressive the state became, no matter how intimidated and frightened we were, like Lolita we tried to escape and to create our own little pockets of freedom," she writes. In short, the art helped them to survive. --Shawn Carkonen
Prisoner of Tehran: A MemoirMarina Nemat
$26.00(USD)
What would you give up to protect your loved ones? Your life?
In her heartbreaking, triumphant, and elegantly written memoir, Prisoner of Tehran, Marina Nemat tells the heart-pounding story of her life as a young girl in Iran during the early days of Ayatollah Khomeini's brutal Islamic Revolution.
In January 1982, Marina Nemat, then just sixteen years old, was arrested, tortured, and sentenced to death for political crimes. Until then, her life in Tehran had centered around school, summer parties at the lake, and her crush on Andre, the young man she had met at church. But when math and history were subordinated to the study of the Koran and political propaganda, Marina protested. Her teacher replied, "If you don't like it, leave." She did, and, to her surprise, other students followed.
Soon she was arrested with hundreds of other youths who had dared to speak out, and they were taken to the notorious Evin prison in Tehran. Two guards interrogated her. One beat her into unconsciousness; the other, Ali, fell in love with her.
Sentenced to death for refusing to give up the names of her friends, she was minutes from being executed when Ali, using his family connections to Ayatollah Khomeini, plucked her from the firing squad and had her sentence reduced to life in prison. But he exacted a shocking price for saving her life -- with a dizzying combination of terror and tenderness, he asked her to marry him and abandon her Christian faith for Islam. If she didn't, he would see to it that her family was harmed. She spent the next two years as a prisoner of the state, and of the man who held her life, and her family's lives, in his hands.
Lyrical, passionate, and suffused throughout with grace and sensitivity, Marina Nemat's memoir is like no other. Her search for emotional redemption envelops her jailers, her husband and his family, and the country of her birth -- each of whom she grants the greatest gift of all: forgiveness.
Classic Iran Film DVD: 1954 Iranian Culture, People, Art, Music, Food, Education, Oil, & Industry History Pictures Film Including Scenes from Tehran, Shiraz, & Isfahan.$14.99(USD)
This beautiful documentary explores the storied past and the rich cultural history of Iran. The film also discusses the wealth of natural resources and the development of industry in Iran. Table Of Contents: (1) Iran: Between Two Worlds (1954) - This wonderful travelogue discusses the daily life and history of the citizens of Iran with visits to Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, the Iranian countryside and amazing scenery of The Persian Mountains. The film also touches on Iranian architecture and the intricate art created by Iranian artists which include, metal smiths, weavers, rug makers, and painters. Industrial development, economic development and daily life are also explored 14 Minutes
Tehran NightsPedram Derakhshani and Saeid Shanbehzadeh
Pedram Derakhshani and Saeid Shanbehzadeh collaborate on this album to create an amazing fusion of Bandari music from Southern Iran with modern Disco, Funk, and Rock music. Recorded in Tehran and mixed in Paris by legendary sound engineer Dominique Blanc-Francard (Pink Floyd, David Bowie, etc), the album blends Iranian traditional instruments and electronic sounds. This album also features other outstanding musicians such as Shahrokh Izadkhah, Babak Riahipour, Kasra Ebrahmi, Habib Meftah- Boushehri, Babak Akhoondi, Hasan Dadmorad, Shahram Sharbaf, and Reza Moghaddas. 1 Bala Bala 2 Ey Khoda 3 Yar Yar Yar 4 Jash 5 Modjoon 6 Cafe Night 7 Yazleh 8 Derya 9 Jombeisa 10 Sharveh
READING \"LOLITA\" IN TEHRAN: A MEMOIR IN BOOKS (STRANGER THAN... S.)AZAR NAFISI
We all have dreams -- things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi's dream and of the nightmare that made it come true.
For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. They were all former students whom she had taught at university. Some came from conservative and religious families, others were progressive and secular; several had spent time in jail. They were shy and uncomfortable at first, unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, but soon they began to open up and to speak more freely, not only about the novels they were reading but also about themselves, their dreams and disappointments. Their stories intertwined with those they were reading -- Pride and Prejudice, Washington Square, Daisy Miller and Lolita -- their Lolita, as they imagined her in Tehran.
Nafisi's account flashes back to the early days of the revolution, when she first started teaching at the University of Tehran amid the swirl of protests and demonstrations. In those frenetic days, the students took control of the university, expelled faculty members, and purged the curriculum. When a radical Islamist in Nafisi's class questioned her decision to teach The Great Gatsby, which he saw as an immoral work that preached falsehoods of "the Great Satan," she decided to let him put Gatsby on trial and stood as the sole witness for the defense.
Azar Nafisi's luminous tale offers a fascinating portrait of the Iran–Iraq war viewed from Tehran and gives us a rare glimpse, from the inside, of women's lives in revolutionary Iran. It is a work of great passion and poetic beauty, written with a startlingly original voice.
Azadi "Freedom Monument," Tehran, Iran, Iran Photographic Poster Print by Chris Mellor, 40x30$99.99(USD)
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