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An Enduring Love: My Life with the Shah - A Memoir

An Enduring Love: My Life with the Shah - A Memoir

Farah Pahlavi

With the hardcover publication of An Enduring Love, a New York Times bestseller (extended list) in 2004, Farah Diba, wife of the last emperor of Iran, broke her silence and told the wrenching story of her love for a man and his country.
Revolution in Iran: The Roots of Turmoil

Revolution in Iran: The Roots of Turmoil

Mehran Kamrava

This book, first published in 1990, on the other hand focuses on the political and social factors which contributed of the Pahlavi dynasty.
Microbes and Microbial Technology: Agricultural and ...

Microbes and Microbial Technology: Agricultural and ...

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Agricultural and Environmental Applications Iqbal Ahmad, Farah Ahmad, John Pichtel. Iqbal Ahmad ○ Farah Ahmad John Pichtel Editors Microbes and Microbial Technology Agricultural and Environmental Applications Iqbal Ahmad ...
Both of Us: My Life with Farrah

Both of Us: My Life with Farrah

Ryan O'Neal

A film star and husband of Farah Fawcett discusses his relationship with her and all the varying forces that worked against it. 50,000 first printing.
Iran Under the Ayatollahs (Routledge Revivals)

Iran Under the Ayatollahs (Routledge Revivals)

Dilip Hiro

First published in 1985, this is a comprehensive study of the Middle East's most strategic country, set against the background of the Islamic heritage of Iran and the rise and fall of the Pahlavi dynasty.
The Iranian Talmud: Reading the Bavli in Its Sasanian Context

The Iranian Talmud: Reading the Bavli in Its Sasanian Context

Shai Secunda

There is no doubt that this book was positively influenced by the participation of Domenico Agostino, Samuel Thrope, and especially my fellow traveler in Talmudo-Iranica, Yishai Kiel, in our weekly Pahlavi reading group. We were soon joined ...
The Army and Creation of the Pahlavi State in Iran, 1921-1926

The Army and Creation of the Pahlavi State in Iran, 1921-1926

Stephanie Cronin

the army that Amirahmadi was personally and directly responsible for the rising. A letter was written in May by Brigadier Muhammad Khan, OC the advanced troops on the Luristan front, to the General Staff at Army Headquarters, attributing the ...
The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of ...

The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of ...

Andrew Scott Cooper

Readers get the story of the Shah's political career alongside the story of his courtship and marriage to Farah Diba, who became a power in her own right, the beloved family they created, and an exclusive look at life inside the palace ...
In Search of the Federal Spirit: New Theoretical and ...

In Search of the Federal Spirit: New Theoretical and ...

Michael Burgess

... Sean Mueller, Farah Shakir, Angustias Hombrado Martos (nicknamed 'Angus'), and Frederic Lepine, who together have formed a close-knit 'federalist family' here in Canterbury. They are an extremely lively group of young men and women  ...
Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who ...

Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who ...

Douglas Farah

The most mysterious of Treasury's targets was Vial, the Delaware holding company that had a role in the cargo plane sales to the Taliban and was cited in the Interpol arrest warrant. In announcing the OFAC assets seizure, Juan Zarate,  ...
Culture and Cultural Politics Under Reza Shah: The Pahlavi ...

Culture and Cultural Politics Under Reza Shah: The Pahlavi ...

Bianca Devos

23 See the contributions by Keivan Aghamohseni and Houchang Chehabi, Chapters 4 and 3. 24 See the contributions by Roja Dehdarian and Christoph Werner, Chapters 10 and 9. 25 See the contributions by Keivan Aghamohseni and ...
Rocliffe Notes for Screenwriters: A Professional Approach to ...

Rocliffe Notes for Screenwriters: A Professional Approach to ...

Farah Abushwesha

... That Sell • Phil Parker – The Writers' Factory (courses in the UK) • Pilar Alessandra – The Coffee Break Screenwriter, On the Page DVD, classes andscript consultation •Robert McKee –STORY (book and seminar) •Ronald Tobias –20 Master ...
The Iraqi Federation: Origin, Operation and Significance

The Iraqi Federation: Origin, Operation and Significance

Farah Shakir

Series editor: Gareth Stansfield University of Exeter, UK Unrecognized States in the International System Edited by Nina Caspersen and Gareth Stansfield The Kurdish National Movement in Turkey From Protest to Resistance Cengiz Gunes  ...
Tribal Politics in Iran: Rural Conflict and the New State, ...

Tribal Politics in Iran: Rural Conflict and the New State, ...

Stephanie Cronin

Placing Iran's 'tribal problem' in its historical context, Tribal Politics in Iran provides an overall assessment on the impact of this crucial period on the character of tribe-state relations in Iran to the end of Pahlavi rule and in the ...
Annotated Preliminary List of Items to be Included in the ...

Annotated Preliminary List of Items to be Included in the ...

United Nations. General Assembly

... Farah (Somalia) Mr. Eugeniusz Kulaga (Poland) Mr. Abdul Samad Ghaus ( Afghanistan) Mr. Cornelius C. Cremin (Ireland) Mr. Hady Touré (Guinea) Mr. Károly Szarka (Hungary) ial Political ittee Vice-Chairman Mr. José D. Inglés ( Philippines) ...
Alternative Governance in the Northern Triangle and ...

Alternative Governance in the Northern Triangle and ...

Douglas Farah

This study examines different forms of alternative governance in the absence of a strong state presence in the Northern Triangle of Central America—along part of the Guatemala-Honduras border—a region notorious for its soaring homicide ...
Advances in Global Leadership

Advances in Global Leadership

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Farah Shakir and Yih-teen Lee address and unpack a new research topic in global leadership À the relationship between multicultural identity and global leadership (Fitzsimmons, Lee, & Brannen, 2013). In “Connecting across Cultures: An ...
Who Rules the World?: Reframings

Who Rules the World?: Reframings

Noam Chomsky

Roham Alvandi, Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah: The United States and Iran in the Cold War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014); Mousavian and Shahidsaless, Iran and the United States, 178. 40. Farah Stockman, “Iran's Nuclear Vision ...
What Is a World?: On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature

What Is a World?: On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature

Pheng Cheah

Cheah compellingly argues for postcolonial literature’s exemplarity as world literature through readings of narrative fiction by Michelle Cliff, Amitav Ghosh, Nuruddin Farah, Ninotchka Rosca, and Timothy Mo that show how these texts open ...
"Who Set You Flowin'?": The African-American Migration Narrative

"Who Set You Flowin'?": The African-American Migration Narrative

Farah Jasmine Griffin

Who Set You Flowin'? examines the impact of this dislocation and urbanization, identifying the resulting Migration Narratives as a major genre in African-American cultural production.
Wrestling with the Demons of the Pahlavi Widēwdād: ...

Wrestling with the Demons of the Pahlavi Widēwdād: ...

Mahnaz Moazami

... gar (B) abar an wan rawed kir 6y murw auui dim vanta kadar ataxs ray esm xwahed (C) abar an zaned [pad bun] abar an brined [tag tag] abar tased [daiiata daitiia pairisti] abar pad an abr6zend ataxs i Ohrmazd pus (D) kadar 6y ast t6zisn.
Public Opinion in the Middle East: Survey Research and the ...

Public Opinion in the Middle East: Survey Research and the ...

Mark Tessler

Survey Research and the Political Orientations of Ordinary Citizens Mark Tessler. 38. Jean Fox O'Barr and Mark tessler. “Gender and Participant Citizenship in tunisia,” in tawfic Farah, ed., Political Behavior in the Arab States (Boulder, Colo.
On Joanna Russ

On Joanna Russ

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Farah Mendlesohn. 11 Violent Women, Womanly Violence 11 Violent Women, Womanly Violence Joanna Russ's Joanna Russ's Femmes Fatales Femmes Fatales JASON P. VEST. In. 1974, Philip K. Dick published an anti-abortion story titled ...

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