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Author |
: Elaine Sciolino |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 414 |
Release |
: 2000-10-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780743214537 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0743214536 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Persian Mirrors by : Elaine Sciolino
No American reporter has more experience covering Iran or more access to the private corners of Iranian society than Elaine Sciolino. As a correspondent for Newsweek and The New York Times, she has reported on the key events of the past two decades. She was aboard the airplane that brought Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to Tehran in 1979; she was there for the Iranian revolution, the hostage crisis, the Iran-Iraq war, the rise of President Mohammad Khatami, and the riots of the summer of 1999. In Persian Mirrors, Sciolino takes us into the public and private spaces of Iran -- the bazaars, beauty salons, aerobics studios, courtrooms, universities, mosques, and the presidential palace -- to capture the vitality of a society so often misunderstood by Americans. She demystifies a country of endless complexity where, on the streets, women swathe themselves in black and, behind high walls, they adorn themselves with makeup and jewelry; where the laws of Islam are the law of the land, and yet the government advertises as tourist attractions the ruins of the pre-Islamic imperial capital at Persepolis and the synagogue where Queen Esther is said to be buried; and where even the most austere clerics recite sensual romantic poetry, insisting that it refers to divine, and not earthly, love. Iran is also a place with a dark side, where unpredictable repression is carried out, officially and unofficially, by forces intent on maintaining power and influence. Sciolino deftly uses her travels throughout Iran and her encounters with its people to portray the country as an exciting, daring laboratory where experiments with two highly volatile chemicals -- Islam and democracy -- are being conducted. Like the mirror mosaics found in Iran's royal palaces and religious shrines, there is more to the whole of the country than the fragments revealed to outsiders. Persian Mirrors captures this elusive Iran. Sciolino paints in astonishing detail and rich color the surprising inner life of this country, where a great battle is raging, not for control over territory but for the soul of the nation.
Author |
: Elaine Sciolino |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 436 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0743217799 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780743217798 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Persian Mirrors by : Elaine Sciolino
Sciolino goes behind the headlines for an intriguing, in-depth look at Iran's complex people and culture. photos. 1 map.
Author |
: Elaine Sciolino |
Publisher |
: Turtleback |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2001-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0606224645 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780606224642 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Persian Mirrors by : Elaine Sciolino
The New York Times expert on Iran explores the beauty and contradiction underlying this enigmatic country.
Author |
: Susan Mokhberi |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 2019-10-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190884819 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190884819 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Persian Mirror by : Susan Mokhberi
The Persian Mirror explores France's preoccupation with Persia in the seventeenth century. Long before Montesquieu's Persian Letters, French intellectuals, diplomats and even ordinary Parisians were fascinated by Persia and eagerly consumed travel accounts, fairy tales, and the spectacle of the Persian ambassador's visit to Paris and Versailles in 1715. Using diplomatic sources, fiction and printed and painted images, The Persian Mirror describes how the French came to see themselves in Safavid Persia. In doing so, it revises our notions of orientalism and the exotic and suggests that early modern Europeans had more nuanced responses to Asia than previously imagined.
Author |
: Rabe`eh Balkhi |
Publisher |
: Mage Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 600 |
Release |
: 2023-05-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781949445602 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1949445607 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women by : Rabe`eh Balkhi
One of the very first Persian poets was a woman (Rabe’eh, who lived over a thousand years ago) and there have been women poets writing in Persian in virtually every generation since that time until the present. Before the twentieth century they tended to come from society’s social extremes. Many were princesses, a good number were hired entertainers of one kind or another, and they were active in many different countries – Iran of course, but also India, Afghanistan, and areas of central Asia that are now Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan. Not surprisingly, a lot of their poetry sounds like that of their male counterparts, but a lot doesn’t; there are distinctively bawdy and flirtatious poems by medieval women poets, poems from virtually every era in which the poet complains about her husband (sometimes light-heartedly, sometimes with poignant seriousness), touching poems on the death of a child, and many epigrams centered on little details that bring a life from hundreds of years ago vividly before our eyes. This new bilingual edition of The Mirror of My Heart – the poems in Persian and English on facing pages – is a unique and captivating collection introduced and translated by Dick Davis, an acclaimed scholar and translator of Persian literature as well as a gifted poet in his own right. In his introduction he provides fascinating background detail on Persian poetry written by women through the ages, including common themes and motifs and a brief overview of Iranian history showing how women poets have been affected by the changing dynasties. From Rabe’eh in the tenth century to Fatemeh Ekhtesari in the twenty-first, each of the eighty-four poets in this volume is introduced in a short biographical note, while explanatory notes give further insight into the poems themselves.
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 568 |
Release |
: 2022-12-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004523067 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004523065 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Critical Companion to the 'Mirrors for Princes' Literature by :
Why devote a Companion to the "mirrors for princes", whose very existence is debated? These texts offer key insights into political thoughts of the past. Their ambiguous, problematic status further enhances their interest. And although recent research has fundamentally challenged established views of these texts, until now there has been no critical introduction to the genre. This volume therefore fills this important gap, while promoting a global historical perspective of different “mirrors for princes” traditions from antiquity to humanism, via Byzantium, Persia, Islam, and the medieval West. This Companion also proposes new avenues of reflection on the anchoring of these texts in their historical realities. Contributors are Makram Abbès, Denise Aigle, Olivier Biaggini, Hugo Bizzarri, Charles F. Briggs, Sylvène Edouard, Jean-Philippe Genet, John R. Lenz, Louise Marlow, Cary J. Nederman, Corinne Peneau, Stéphane Péquignot, Noëlle-Laetitia Perret, Günter Prinzing, Volker Reinhardt, Hans-Joachim Schmidt, Tom Stevenson, Karl Ubl, and Steven J. Williams.
Author |
: Janet Hubbard-Brown |
Publisher |
: Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 128 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781438104515 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1438104510 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shirin Ebadi by : Janet Hubbard-Brown
As a lawyer, judge, lecturer, writer, and activist, Shirin Ebadi has spoken out in her country, Iran, as well as throughout the world. This is the story of an exceptional figure who has dedicated her life to fighting for basic human rights, especially those of women and children, within Iran and abroad.
Author |
: Carole Jerome |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 340 |
Release |
: 1988 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015025189047 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Man in the Mirror by : Carole Jerome
Author |
: James W. Allan |
Publisher |
: Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages |
: 121 |
Release |
: 1982 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780870992711 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0870992716 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nishapur by : James W. Allan
The city of Nishapur, located in eastern Iran, was a place of political importance in medieval times and a flourishing center of art, crafts, and trade. This publication explores metalwork found at the site at Nishapur excavated by the Iranian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum in 1935–40 and again in 1947. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Author |
: Enrico Boccaccini |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 326 |
Release |
: 2021-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004498921 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004498923 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reflecting Mirrors, East and West: Transcultural Comparisons of Advice Literature for Rulers (8th - 13th century) by : Enrico Boccaccini
In Reflecting Mirrors, East and West Enrico Boccaccini investigates the transcultural phenomenon of advice literature for rulers, commonly referred to as Mirrors for Princes, by bringing together, for the first time, texts from multiple literary traditions.