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As a nine-year-old Tehrani schoolgirl during the Iranian Revolution, Nazila Fathi watched her country change before her eyes. The revolutionaries--most of them poor, uneducated, and radicalized--seized jobs, housing, and positions of power, transforming Iranian society practically overnight. But this socioeconomic revolution had an unintended effect. As Fathi shows, the forces unleashed in 1979 inadvertently created a robust Iranian middle class, one that today hungers for more personal freedoms and a renewed relationship with the outside world. And unless an international confrontation allows Iranian leaders to justify an internal crackdown, this internal pressure for reform will soon set the country on a more stable track. In The Lonely War, Fathi describes Iran's awakening alongside her own, revealing how moderates are retaking the country--and how foreign powers can aid their progress.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Lonely War
• Author: Nazila Fathi
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 336
• EAN: 9780465069996
• ISBN: 0465069991
• ID: 05073603
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Weight: 582 g
• Dimensions: 241 × 163 × 32 mm
• Date of publishing: 09. December 2014

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