Iranian Romance in the Digital Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Iranian Romance in the Digital Age write by Janet Afary. This book was released on 2021-01-28. Iranian Romance in the Digital Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, there was a dramatic reversal of women's rights, and the state revived many premodern social conventions through modern means and institutions. Customs such as the enforced veiling of women, easy divorce for men, child marriage, and polygamy were robustly reintroduced and those who did not conform to societal strictures were severely punished. At the same time, new social and economic programs benefited the urban and rural poor, especially women, which had a direct impact on gender relations and the institution of marriage. Edited by Janet Afary and Jesilyn Faust, this interdisciplinary volume responds to the growing interest and need for literature on gender, marriage and family relations in the Islamic context. The book examines how the institution of marriage transformed in Iran, paying close attention to the country's culture and politics. Part One examines changes in urban marriages to new forms of cohabitation. In Part Two contributors, such as Soraya Tremayne, explore the way technology and social media has impacted and altered the institution of family. Part Three turns its eye to look at marital changes in the rural and tribal sectors of society through the works of anthropologists including Erika Friedl and Mary Hegland. Based on the work of both new and established scholars, the book provides an up-to-date study of an important and intensely politicized subject.
Veiled Romance
Veiled Romance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Veiled Romance write by Simon Sion Ebrahimi. This book was released on 2011-03-01. Veiled Romance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Veiled Romance” is a novel that unfolds against the turbulent backdrop of Tehran during the first months of Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution, and is inspired by my personal experiences and observations being in Iran during that time period.“Veiled Romance” is told from the point of view of Leila Omid, a young, lovely, liberated and brilliant Iranian educated in the States. Her family is highly connected to the Shah's government, despite the fact that they are secretly Jewish. In Tehran, post revolution, Leila sheds her western ways and plays a dangerous game rising to the upper ranks of the fundamentalist regime. She does this to free the man she loves, Cyrus – a charismatic and handsome Iranian business executive who is openly Jewish – from being a political hostage. The novel unfolds as Leila writes her memoirs from her cell in an Iranian fundamentalist prison, telling her stirring and passionate story, and providing an insider's view of the cultural and political history of contemporary Iran.
Sexual Politics in Modern Iran
Sexual Politics in Modern Iran - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sexual Politics in Modern Iran write by Janet Afary. This book was released on 2009-04-09. Sexual Politics in Modern Iran available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book charts the history of Iran's sexual revolution from the nineteenth century to today. The resilience of the Iranian people forms the basis of this sexual revolution, one that is promoting reforms in marriage and family laws, and demanding more egalitarian gender and sexual relations.
Charand-o Parand
Charand-o Parand - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Charand-o Parand write by Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda. This book was released on 2016-05-24. Charand-o Parand available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A classic of Modern Persian literature, Charand-o Parand (Stuff and Nonsense) is a work familiar to every literate Iranian. Originally a series of newspaper columns written by scholar and satirist Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, the pieces poke fun at mullahs, the shah, and the old religious and political order during the Constitutional Revolution in Iran (1906–11). The essays were the Daily Show of their era. The columns were heatedly debated in the Iranian parliament, and the newspaper was shut down on several occasions for its criticism of the religious establishment. Translated by two distinguished scholars of Persian language and history, this volume makes Dehkhoda’s entertaining political observations available to English readers for the first time.
Shahnameh
Shahnameh - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shahnameh write by Abolqasem Ferdowsi. This book was released on 2016-03-08. Shahnameh available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The definitive translation by Dick Davis of the great national epic of Iran—now newly revised and expanded to be the most complete English-language edition A Penguin Classic Dick Davis—“our pre-eminent translator from the Persian” (The Washington Post)—has revised and expanded his acclaimed translation of Ferdowsi’s masterpiece, adding more than 100 pages of newly translated text. Davis’s elegant combination of prose and verse allows the poetry of the Shahnameh to sing its own tales directly, interspersed sparingly with clearly marked explanations to ease along modern readers. Originally composed for the Samanid princes of Khorasan in the tenth century, the Shahnameh is among the greatest works of world literature. This prodigious narrative tells the story of pre-Islamic Persia, from the mythical creation of the world and the dawn of Persian civilization through the seventh-century Arab conquest. The stories of the Shahnameh are deeply embedded in Persian culture and beyond, as attested by their appearance in such works as The Kite Runner and the love poems of Rumi and Hafez. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
