RAF’S RECOMMENDED READING ON IRAN<\/b><\/p>\n
Not quite two weeks ago I requested some advice on books to give a good grounding on Iran, its society and politics. Raf<\/a><\/strong>,<\/a> a compatriot of Collounsbury<\/a><\/strong> and a contributor to the MENA group blog ‘Aqoul <\/a><\/strong>was gracious enough to put together a short bibliography for Zenpundit<\/em><\/strong> readers that includes a nice mix of Westerners and native speakers. I’ll be picking up a few of these myself in the near future.<\/p>\n Without further ado – Raf’s Recommendations:<\/p>\n 1. Modern Iran: Roots and Results of Revolution<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>by Nikki Keddie<\/strong><\/p>\n This one was Raf’s “absolute must read first” selection.<\/p>\n 2. The Mantle of the Prophet<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>by Roy Mottahedeh<\/strong><\/p>\n Focus on Shiite Islam<\/p>\n 3. In the Rose Garden of theMartyrs : A Memoir of Iran<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>– Christopher de Bellaigue<\/strong><\/p>\n 4. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir inBooks<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>by Azar Nafisi <\/strong><\/p>\n Already a best-seller and known to a general audience.<\/p>\n 5. We Are Iran : The Persian Blogs<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Nasrin Alavi<\/strong><\/p>\n Once again, thank you Raf ! Please be sure to visit him at ‘Aqoul<\/a><\/strong> or his home blog, raf* bey…the levantese <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RAF’S RECOMMENDED READING ON IRAN Not quite two weeks ago I requested some advice on books to give a good grounding on Iran, its society and politics. Raf, a compatriot of Collounsbury and a contributor to the MENA group blog ‘Aqoul was gracious enough to put together a short bibliography for Zenpundit readers that includes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}