Winner of Australia’s richest literary award, No Friend but the Mountains is Kurdish-Iranian journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani’s account of his detainment on Australia’s notorious Manus Island prison. Composed entirely by text...
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Author:Boochani, BehrouzSummary: -
Author:Ellis, DeborahSummary:Based on interviews with a young woman forced to flee Iran because of her sexual orientation, Moon at Nine is a tense and riveting novel that shines a light on an issue of social injustice that continues to this day. Fifteen-year-old...
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Author:Ebadi, ShirinSummary:The moving, inspiring memoir of one of the great women of our times, Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize and advocate for the oppressed, whose spirit has remained strong in the face of political persecution and despite...
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Author:Saniee, Parinoush, Kalantari, SanamSummary:This is the story, based on fact, of a boy who couldn’t speak until the age of seven. Now twenty, he describes the events of his life.Four-year-old Shahaab has not started talking. The family doctor believes there is no cause for...
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Author:Sharareh, KamranSummary:From Persia to Tehr Angeles seeks to give a rich, rounded view of the foundations of Persian culture and traditions so that modern readers can know this heritage more intimately and also pick and choose which elements to make use of in...
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Author:Parsi, ArshamSummary:To be gay in Iran means to live in the shadow of death. The country's harsh Islamic code of Lavat is used to execute gay men, and LGBT individuals who avoid execution are often subjected to severe lashings, torture and imprisonment. It...
- Author:Homa, AvaSummary:
Leila dreams of making films to bring the suppressed stories of the Kurdish people onto the global stage. But when her brother's activism leads to his disappearance, Leila begins a campaign to save him.
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Author:Yadlin, Amos, Krauthammer, Charles, Zakaria, Fareed, Nasr, Vali, Griffiths, RudyardSummary:With tensions between Iran, Israel, and Western powers reaching new highs over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear enrichment program, the tenth edition of the Munk Debates investigates how the world should respond to Iran’s nuclear...
- Author:Fattal, Joshua, Shourd, Sarah, Bauer, ShaneSummary:
In 2009 Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal, and Sarah Shourd were hiking in Iraqi Kurdistan when they unknowingly crossed into Iran and were captured by a border patrol. Accused of espionage, they were sent to Tehran's infamous Evin Prison....
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