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Foucault and the Iranian Revolution
Gender and the Seductions of Islamism
Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson
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Memoirs of an Iranian Rebel
Former Mojahed
Masoud Banisadr
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Modern Persian
[Volume 1 / Volume II] with audio CD
Donald Stilo, Kamran Talattof and Jerome Clinton
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A Persian Letter
To a Pious Mother from an Agnostic Son
Nasser Shojania
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Maadaraan va dokhtaraan
"Mothers and Daughters"
Mahshid Amirshahi
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Lipstick Jihad
A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran
Azadeh Moaveni
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Sharik-e Gham
Sharing your sorrow
Zohreh Khazai Ghahremani
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Jamshid and the Lost Mountain of Light
Children's book
Howard Lee
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Time Bites
Views and Reviews

Doris Lessing
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Parpin flowers
A novel
Akbar Golrang
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Rostam tales from the Shahnameh
Comic book
Behrouz Bahmani
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Hafiz
Teachings of the Philosopher of Love
Haleh Pourafzal and Roger Montgomery
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Azmoon-e Bargozeedegi
Persian Jewish poetry
Jahangir Sedaghatfar
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Ketab-e Bidjan
Life and art of Bidjan Assadipour
Fazlollah Rohani
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Delvaapas-e Shaadmaani-ye to Hastam
Letters of Khalil Gibran and Mary Haskell
Majid Roshangar
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Nah zeestan, nah marg
Prison memoirs
Iraj Mesdaghi
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Mother Country
A novel
Peg Leon
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Paadarang
Book of poetry
Namdar Nasser
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In search of Zarathustra
Across Iran and Central Asia to Find the World's First Prophet
Paul Kriwaczek
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The Persian Puzzle
The Conflict between Iran and America
Kenneth M. Pollack
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Letters from Ahmad Abad
Mossadegh's letters to his trusted friend and lawyer
Fariba Amini
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Persepolis 2
Marjane Satrapi's comic strip memoir, Vol. 2
Marjane Satrapi
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Journey from the Land of No
A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran
Roya Hakakian
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Crescent
A novel
Diana Abu-Jaber
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Reading Lolita in Tehran
A Memoir in Books
Azar Nafisi
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My Favorite Films
Cyrus Ghani
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Imperial hubris
Why the West is losing the war on terror
Anonymous
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Sunset of Empire
Stories from the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi Volume III
Translated by Dick Davis
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The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
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Iran in Crisis
Nuclear Ambitions and the American Response
Roger Howard
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Torture and democracy
Civic power and violence
Darius Rejali
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Bidaad-e Sokoot
The Outrage of Silence
By Fereshteh Kowssar
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The Greater Iran
A 20th-Century Odyssey
By Richard Nelson Frye
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Taareekh-e ahzaab
Iran's political parties in a span of 100 years
By Younes Parsa Benab
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Daastaanhaayeh Raasteen
By Amir Mehdi Noorbakhsh
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Memoirs of Mahmoud Foroughi
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Ambassador to the United States
By Habib Ladjevardi
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Once Upon a Star
By Majid
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Persia in the Great Game
Sir Percy Sykes Explorer, Consul, Soldier, Spy
By Antony Wynn
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Lost Wisdom
Rethinking Modernity in Iran
By Abbas Milani
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Tak Nafar
Short stories
Keyvan Fotoohi
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The Da Vinci Code
Novel
By Dan Brown
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Discovery of Atlantis
The Startling Case for the Island of Cyprus
By Robert Sarmast
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Passenger to Tehran
Travel diary from 1926 Iran
By Vita Sackville-West
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On the Other Side of Accusation
Iran's longest-serving political prisoner
By Abbas Amir-Entezam
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Mystics, monarchs and messiahs
Cultural landscape of early modern Iran
By Kathryn Babayan
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Rumi & Friends
Translation of Persian poetry
By Hamid Zavosh
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Naamehaaye Khalil Maleki
Khalil Maleki's letters
By Amir Pishdad & Homa Katouzian
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All the Shah's Men
An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
By Stephen Kinzer
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Project Norouz
Novel
By Rebecca Swift
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Funny in Farsi
A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
By Firoozeh Dumas
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Daastaan-haaye kootaah
Short story
By Mahshid Amirshahi
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Osool va Qavaaed va Qavaaneen-e Maaliyeh
Letters from Forough Farrokhzad to her husband Parviz Shapour
By Mohammad Mossadegh
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Avalin Tapesh-haaye Asheghaaneye Ghalbam
Letters from Forough Farrokhzad to her husband Parviz Shapour
By Kamran Shapour
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The Shah and the Ayatollah
Iranian mythology and the Islamic revolution
By Fereydoun Hoveyda
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Man babr neestam Peecheedeh beh Baalaaye Khod-taakam
A novel
By Mohammad Reza Safdari
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Atuk's quest
A novel
By Nader Habibi
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Answering Only to God
The dangerous road to democracy in Iran
by Geneive Abdo & Jonathan Lyons
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Dardedel
Rumi, Hafez, and Love in New York
By Manoucher Parvin
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Tup-e Morvari
The Pearly Cannon
By Sadeq Hedayat

The Valleys of the Assassins
By Freya Stark
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Persepolis
A memoir in comic strips
By Marjane Satrapi
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In the Walled Garden
Novel
By Anahita Firouz
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Persian Pilgrimage
Journeys Across Iran
By Afshin Molavi
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Iranian Student Opposition to the Shah
By Afshin Matin-Asgari
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The Iranians
Persia, Islam, and the Soul of a Nation
By Sandra Mackey
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Helen of Tus
Her odyssey from Idaho to Iran
By Laleh Bakhtiar and Bakhtiari Rose
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Khanoom
Lady
By Massoud Behnoud.
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Shaban
The story of Shaban "Beemokh" Jafari
By Homa Sarshar
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Rumi
Hidden Music
By Maryam Mafi
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Blood Flower
A novel
By Norris R. Peery
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Samphoniye mordegaan
Symphony of the Dead, a novel
By Abbas Maroufi
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Searching for Hassan
An American Family's Journey Home to Iran
Edited by Terence Ward
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The vicious circle
A novel
Edited by Reza T. Saberi
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Memoirs of Mehdi Hairi-Yazdi
Theologian and Professor of Islamic Philosophy
Edited by Habib Ladjevardi
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Sadeq Hedayat
Life and legend of an Iranian writer
By Homa Katouzian
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Engaar gofteh boodi Lailee
Novel
By Sepideh Shamloo
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Engaar gofteh boodi Lailee
Novel
By Sepideh Shamloo
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Dastgah
Diary of a head trip
By Mark Mordue
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Globalization, Gender, and Religion
The Politics of Women's Rights in Catholic and Muslim Contexts
By Jane Bayes and Nayereh Tohidi
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Close Up
Iranian Cinema, Past Present and Future
By Hamid Dabashi
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Kimiyaye Azaadi
Akbar Ganji's trial following Berlin Conference
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Refashioning Iran
Orientalism, Occidentalism and Historiography
By Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi
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Islam and Gender
The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran
By Ziba Mir-Hosseini
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The Clash of Civilizations
Remaking of World Order
By Samuel Huntington
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Saadi Stories for Young Adults
By Saadi
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Rumi Stories for Young Adults
By Saadi
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Innocents Abroad
By Mark Twain
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Cheraa Iran aqab maand va gharb peesh raft?
Why Iran Lagged Behind and the West Moved Forward
By Kazem Alamdari
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Fury
Novel
By Salman Rushdie
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Social Change in Iran
An Eyewitness Account of Dissent, Defiance, and New Movements for Rights
By Behzad Yaghmaian
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The Bathhouse
Novel
By Farnoosh Moshiri
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Pesari kenaare panjereh
Short story
By Houshang Ashourzadeh
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Sallon 6
Life in Evin
By Ebrahim Nabavi
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A Diplomatic History of the Caspian Sea
Treaties, Diaries, and Other Stories
By Guive Mirfendereski
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Exiled Memories
Stories of the Iranian Diaspora
By Zohreh T. Sullivan
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Poshte divaarhaaye boland
Palace to prison
By Azar Ariyan-Pour
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Goftan yaa nagoftan
On free speech
By Sadegh Zibakalam
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An Accented Cinema
Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking
By Hamid Naficy
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Khar Nameh
Memoirs of a donkey
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Az nehzate aazaadi taa mojaahedin (Vol. 1)
From Nehzate Azadi to Mohajedin Khalq
By Lotfollah Meisami
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Shaayad yek rooz
Poetry
By Parvaneh Forouhar
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Khosro & Shirin
Nezami's classic epic love story in prose
By Farideh Golboo
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Neither East Nor West
One Woman's Journey Through the Islamic Republic of Iran
By Christiane Bird
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Reinventing Khomeini
The Struggle for Reform in Iran
By Daniel Brumberg
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Khaateraat-e Ayatollah Khalkhali
Memoirs of Iran's "Hanging Judge"
By Ayatollah Khalkhali
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Rebels with a cause
The Failure of the Left in Iran
By Maziar Behrooz
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The Persian Bride
Novel
By James Buchan
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The Poetry of Nizami Ganjavi
Knowledge, Love, and Rhetoric
By Kamran Talattof and Jerome W. Clinton
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Joy of Persian Cooking
Persian-American Cuisine
By Pari Ardalan Malek
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Sanctioning Iran: Anatomy of a Failed Policy
Chronicling U.S. sancxtions against Iran
By Hossein Alikhani
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The Globalization of Business and the Middle East
Opportunities and Constraints
By Masoud Kavoossi
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Memoirs of M. A. Modjtahedi
Principal of Alborzo High School
By Habib Ladjevardi
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The Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1906-1911
Democratic concepts emerged during the 1906 Constituional Revolution
By Janet Afary
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Beh khaater-e aab" ("For the Sake of Water")
Poems
By Roya Hakkakian
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Persian Mirrors
The Elusive Face of Iran
By Elaine Sciolino
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For God, Mammon, and Country
A Nineteenth Century Persian Merchant"
By Shireen Mahdavi
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The Persian Garden
Echoes of Paradise

By Mehdi Khansari, M. Reza Moghtader, Minouch Yavari
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The Persian Sphinx
Amir-Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution
By Abbas Milani / Published 2000
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Memoirs of Jafar Sharif-Emami
Prime Minister of Iran (1960-1961 & 1978)
Edited by Habib Ladjevardi
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The last great revolution
Turmoil and Transformation in Iran
By Robin Wright
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At the Wall of the Almighty
By Farnoosh Moshiri
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Saffron Sky
A Life Between Iran and America
By Gelareh Asayesh, 1999
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A Good Place to Die
Novel
By James Buchan
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Jooy va Divar va Teshneh
By Ebrahim Golestan
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Khomeini: Life of the Ayatollah
By Baqer Moin
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Clara va man
By Mehrnoosh Mazarei
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Qajar Iran and the Rise of Reza Khan 1796-1925
By Nikkie R. Keddie
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Jen Nameh
By Houshang Golshiri
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A World Between: Poems Stories and Essays by Iranian-Americans
Edited by Persis M. Karim and Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami
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Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith
By Gina B. Nahai
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Iran and the Rise of Reza Shah
By Cyrus Ghani
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The Tragedy of Sohrab and Rostam
By Jerome W. Clinton
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To See and See Again: A Life in Iran and America
By Tara Bahrampour
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998
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The Arrest of Hoveyda
By Saideh Pakravan
Blind Owl Press, 1998
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Domal
("The Abscess")
By Shirindokht Radi
1998 Khorshid Publishing, San Jose, CA
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Farhang-e Ir'ani, J'ame'eh- ye Madani, va Daghdagh-ye Demokr'asi
("Iranian Culture, Civil Society, and Concern for Democracy")
By Ali Akbar Mahdi
1988, Javan Publisher, Toronto, Canada
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Memoirs of Fatemeh Pakravan
Wife of General Hassan Pakravan: Army Officer
By Habib Ladjevardi
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Jaame-eh shenaasi-e Nokhbeh-koshi
("The Sociology of Eliminating the Cream of the Crop")
By Ali Reza-Qoli
Ney Publishers, Tehran, 1998
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Deer Table Legs
Poems by Katayoon Zandvakili
The University of Georgia Press, 1998
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Shamaayel-e Maanaa
("A Portrait of Mana")
By Mokhtar Paki
Baran Publishers, Spanga, Sweden
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The Complete Poems of Iraj Mirza
From Iranbooks, Bethesda, Maryland.
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Persian Brides : A Novel
By Dorit Rabinyan, Yael Lotan
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Khaateraat-e Abdolmadjid Madjidi
Memoirs of Abdolmadjid Madjidi
Edited by Habib Ladjevardi
Iranian Oral History Project
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Seyhoun
Half a century of artistic activities in the world of art and architecture
Sabco Interests, Inc., Houston, Texas
Hard-bound - 396 pages (1998)
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History of the Persian Empire
By Arthur T. Olmstead, 568 pages

Khaterat-e Amirteymur Kalali (in Persian)
Memoirs of Mohammad Ebrahim Amirteymour Kalali
Edited by Habib Ladjevardi

Barnameh-ye enerji-ye atomi-ye iran, talash-ha va tanesh-haa (in Persian)
A history of Iran's Atomic Energy Program
Edited by Gholam Reza Afkhami

Zanaan Saraayandeh-ye Mo'aaser
Selections from a book by Parvin Shakiba

The Fortune Catcher
A novel by Susanne Pari

600 Tales of Mulla Nassredin (in Persian)
Edited by Mohammad Ramazani

Borrowed Ware
Medieval Persian Epigrams
Translated by Dick Davis

The Physician
A novel by Noah Gordon

Blood and Oil
Memoirs of a Persian Prince
Roxane Farmanfarmaian, Manucher Farmanfarmaian

Know Thine Enemy
A Spy's Journey into Revolutionary Iran
Edward Shirley

The Image of Arabs in Modern Persian Literature
Joya Blondel Saad

Lonely Planet: Iran
Travel Survival Kit
David St. Vincent

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