Iran Revolution

From the front lines of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, a searing, unforgetable audiobook that captures the human essence of the greatest conflict of our time. Through the eyes of Dexter Filkins, the prize-winning New York Times correspondent, we witness the remarkable chain of events...

'Timely and beautifully written' SUNDAY TIMES 'Phenomenal... Pacy and informative. City of Lies is an extraordinary insight into a country barely known - an often feared - by the West' VOGUE 'Gripping ... utterly compelling' DAILY MAIL Lying in Tehran is about survival. Welcome to Tehran, a city...

A group of Israeli engineers are trapped in central Iran when the world about them explodes in chaos. Imagine their plight when they discover the Shah has been deposed and Ayatollah Khomeini has returned from exile. How can they escape with their lives? What should they do? Can our hero Guy Hart rescue the attractive Emma Levine and his colleagues from capture by the Revolutionary Guards? The result is an intense action-packed thriller full of danger, death, and fear with some romance, as well as surprising twists and turns.

LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER A spellbinding debut novel about the trailblazing Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, who defied society’s expectations to find her voice and her destiny “A complex and beautiful rendering of [a] vanished country and its scattered people, a reminder of the...

A work of true crime following one American family’s search for the truth after a 1984 murder in war-torn Beirut, where the Iranian revolution collided with the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, setting off the geopolitical conflagration that burns to this day, from acclaimed and bestselling author...

By the award-winning author of the acclaimed Kurdish trilogy, a novel about a daughter discovering her mother’s secret past as a violent militant in the Iranian Revolution When Heti’s mother, Ana, dies, she leaves behind a spotless legacy: affectionate parent, modern career woman, and life...

The “astonishing and deeply poignant” (The Washington Post) memoir of one man’s search for a beloved family friend explores the depth of Iranian culture and the sweep of its history, and transcends today’s news headlines to remind us of the humanity that connects us all. Growing up in...

Die junge Modedesignerin Christiane Amini verliebt sich in ihrer Heimatstadt Hamburg in einen persischen Studenten. 1975 folgt sie ihm in den Iran und wird seine Ehefrau. Dort erlebt sie in kurzer Folge drei Epochen: Kaiserzeit, Revolution und Krieg. Sie wird empfangen mit grenzenloser Gastfreundschaft - Jahre später gelingt ihr unter großen Anstrengungen die Flucht. Folgen Sie der Autorin in ein aufregendes Land mit 1.001 Wahrheit. In ihr Leben in der Weite der Wüste.

Ayant fui Téhéran pour échapper à la Révolution Islamique de 1979, Hashang, Roza et leurs trois enfants tentent de reconstruire leur vie dans le petit village de Razan, au cœur de la région montagneuse de Mazandaran. Mais personne n'échappe longtemps à la violence et au chaos... et la répression finira fatalement par les rattraper.