{"id":24350,"count":16,"description":"History books on Iran<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe historian Ali Ansari, author of Iran: A Very Short Introduction<\/em><\/a> (2015), talked to us about Iranian history. For an in-depth account, Paul Lay, editor of History Today<\/em>, recommended Abbas Amanat\u2019s 1000+ page book, Iran: A Modern History<\/em><\/a> (2018), as one of the best history books<\/a> of the year and the result of a \"lifetime's learning\" by a leading scholar.\r\n\r\nFor books on the Persian empire, there's Persians: The Age of The Great Kings<\/em> by British historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jone<\/a>s or you can try the historical novel he recommends, Creation<\/em> <\/a>by Gore Vidal.\r\n\r\nBooks on the Iranian Revolution<\/strong>\r\n\r\nShah of Shahs<\/em><\/a> by Ryszard Kapu\u015bci\u0144ski\r\nThe Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran<\/em><\/a> by Roy Mottahedeh\r\nAll the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror<\/em><\/a> by Stephen Kinzer\r\n\r\nNovels and Memoirs of Iran<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe satirical novel My Uncle Napoleon<\/em><\/a> (1973) by Iraj Pezeshkzad is recommended by both Jasmin Darznik and Pooneh Ghoddoosi as the most popular Iranian novel of the 20th<\/sup> century and a good introduction to the Iranian character and culture. (A competing, but very different novel is Blind Owl<\/em><\/a> (1936) by Sadeq Hedayat).\r\n\r\nMore recently, the memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran<\/a> <\/em>(2003) has been translated into 33 different languages and sold millions of copies in the West. The memoir written as a comic, Persepolis<\/em><\/a> (2000), was also an international sensation.\r\n\r\nNarges Mohammadi<\/a> won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize \u201cfor her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all.\u201d She is currently in jail. \"This time I was found guilty because of the book you are holding in your hands \u2014 White Torture<\/a> <\/em>(2022).\" Also recommended on Iranian women: Iranian Women\u2019s One Million Signatures: Campaign for Equality<\/em><\/a> (2012).\r\n\r\nIranian food, gardens and football<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe chefs, Jila Dana-Haeri and Shahrzad Ghorashian, authors of New Persian Cooking, <\/em><\/a>talk about Iranian cuisine. And Penelope Hobhouse discusses her fascination with Persian gardens in her interview on horticultural inspiration<\/a>. Iranian feminism mixes with football in John Turnbull\u2019s recommendation of the film, Offside<\/em><\/a>.","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/world\/asia\/middle-east\/iran\/","name":"Iran","slug":"iran","taxonomy":"category","parent":5648,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/24350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/5648"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=24350"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=24350"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=24350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}