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"The 1970s were the end result of half a century of Westernization in Iran, and Aria's father was the man of the hour. But when the Shah was overthrown and the Ayatollah rose to power in 1979, Aria's idyllic life skidded to a halt...As the surreal began to invade the mundane, with family friends disappearing every day and resources growing scarce, Aria found himself torn between being the man of the house and being a much needed source of comic relief....
42) Persépolis
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"Persépolis nos cuenta la revolución islámica iraní vista desde los ojos de una niña que asiste atónita al cambio profundo que experimentan su país y su familia, mientras ella debe aprender a llevar el velo. Intensamente personal y profundamente político, el relato autobiográfico de Marjane Satrapi examina qué significa crecer en un ambiente de guerra y represión política."--
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From her mother's womb, Maryam saw the first hours of the Iranian revolution. Six years later, she joined with her mother her father in exile in Paris. Through the memories of her early years, Maryam recounts the abandonment of the country, the removal of her family, the loss of her toys - given to the children of Tehran under the injunction of her Communist parents - Persian, which she will alternately reject, then adopt frantically, to the point...
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"Over three decades after the Iranian Revolution reconfigured the strategic landscape in the Middle East, scholars are still trying to decipher its aftereffects. Suzanne Maloney provides the first comprehensive overview of Iran's political economy since the 1979 revolution and offers detailed examinations of two aspects of the Iranian economy of direct interest to scholars and non-specialist readers of Iran: the energy sector and the role of sanctions....
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