The Ayatollahs' Democracy : An Iranian Challenge

ISBN-13: 9780141047515 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 288 str.

Hooman Majd

Opis

Iran is a country with global ambitions, an elaborate political culture, and enormous implications for world peace. How can its diversity of political positions resolve itself? This title shows that, despite the violence of the 2009 elections, the ideal of an Iranian republic is still alive.

Recenzje

In vividly readable style ... Majd gives us what's been missing for so long: a nuanced, in-depth portrait of a country both far more sophisticated and far less rigid than western policymakers have yet appreciated Lesley Hazleton, author of After the Prophet: the epic story of the Shia-Sunni split

O autorze

Hooman Majd was born in Tehran, Iran in 1957, and lived abroad from infancy with his family who were in the diplomatic service. He attended boarding school in England and college in the United States, and stayed in the U.S. after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Majd had a long career in the entertainment business before devoting himself to writing and journalism full-time.