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Ashyaa Kont Saketah Aanha | Azar Nafisi
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Over the course of nearly 500 pages, Nafisi narrates her personal life, her childhood and roots, the circumstances in which she grew up, her studies and travels to Europe and America, her first and second marriages, her father's imprisonment, and the Iran-Iraq war, in an autobiographical context full of personal details.
Nafisi focuses on her warm relationship With her father, in contrast to the dryness of her relationship with her mother, the political discussions that she used to hear since her childhood every Friday morning in the salon of their home, and the political changes on the Iranian scene between the era of the Shah and the Islamic Revolution’s seizure of power.
One of the important angles in Nafisi’s presentation is her documentation of the Iranian revolution, And how the leftists revolted alongside the Islamists against the Shah’s regime, in search of more freedoms in Iran, so that the revolution suddenly turned into an Islamic context led by Ayatollah Khomeini from his exile in Paris, and the Islamists came to power by arresting and executing their partners in the revolution, imposing their conditions and their law on the people in various
What gives such an autobiography an added value is the writer's status as the daughter of a house teeming with political activities due to her father's work as the governor of Tehran, her mother as a parliamentarian under the Shah's regime, and her work as a university professor under Khomeini.
The contemporaneity of these two allowed The two judgments for the writer to note and then record the political and life transformations that society has witnessed, especially with regard to Iranian women.
Nafisi focuses on her warm relationship With her father, in contrast to the dryness of her relationship with her mother, the political discussions that she used to hear since her childhood every Friday morning in the salon of their home, and the political changes on the Iranian scene between the era of the Shah and the Islamic Revolution’s seizure of power.
One of the important angles in Nafisi’s presentation is her documentation of the Iranian revolution, And how the leftists revolted alongside the Islamists against the Shah’s regime, in search of more freedoms in Iran, so that the revolution suddenly turned into an Islamic context led by Ayatollah Khomeini from his exile in Paris, and the Islamists came to power by arresting and executing their partners in the revolution, imposing their conditions and their law on the people in various
What gives such an autobiography an added value is the writer's status as the daughter of a house teeming with political activities due to her father's work as the governor of Tehran, her mother as a parliamentarian under the Shah's regime, and her work as a university professor under Khomeini.
The contemporaneity of these two allowed The two judgments for the writer to note and then record the political and life transformations that society has witnessed, especially with regard to Iranian women.
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Over the course of nearly 500 pages, Nafisi narrates her personal life, her childhood and roots, the circumstances in which she grew up, her studies and travels to Europe and America, her first and second marriages, her father's imprisonment, and the Iran-Iraq war, in an autobiographical context full of personal details.
Nafisi focuses on her warm relationship With her father, in contrast to the dryness of her relationship with her mother, the political discussions that she used to hear since her childhood every Friday morning in the salon of their home, and the political changes on the Iranian scene between the era of the Shah and the Islamic Revolution’s seizure of power.
One of the important angles in Nafisi’s presentation is her documentation of the Iranian revolution, And how the leftists revolted alongside the Islamists against the Shah’s regime, in search of more freedoms in Iran, so that the revolution suddenly turned into an Islamic context led by Ayatollah Khomeini from his exile in Paris, and the Islamists came to power by arresting and executing their partners in the revolution, imposing their conditions and their law on the people in various
What gives such an autobiography an added value is the writer's status as the daughter of a house teeming with political activities due to her father's work as the governor of Tehran, her mother as a parliamentarian under the Shah's regime, and her work as a university professor under Khomeini.
The contemporaneity of these two allowed The two judgments for the writer to note and then record the political and life transformations that society has witnessed, especially with regard to Iranian women.
Nafisi focuses on her warm relationship With her father, in contrast to the dryness of her relationship with her mother, the political discussions that she used to hear since her childhood every Friday morning in the salon of their home, and the political changes on the Iranian scene between the era of the Shah and the Islamic Revolution’s seizure of power.
One of the important angles in Nafisi’s presentation is her documentation of the Iranian revolution, And how the leftists revolted alongside the Islamists against the Shah’s regime, in search of more freedoms in Iran, so that the revolution suddenly turned into an Islamic context led by Ayatollah Khomeini from his exile in Paris, and the Islamists came to power by arresting and executing their partners in the revolution, imposing their conditions and their law on the people in various
What gives such an autobiography an added value is the writer's status as the daughter of a house teeming with political activities due to her father's work as the governor of Tehran, her mother as a parliamentarian under the Shah's regime, and her work as a university professor under Khomeini.
The contemporaneity of these two allowed The two judgments for the writer to note and then record the political and life transformations that society has witnessed, especially with regard to Iranian women.
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