The Stoning of Soraya M.: A True Story
Freidoune Sahebjam
This resonant book portrays the ugliness of fundamentalist Islamic mob justice in Khomeini-era Iran. Sahebjam, an Iranian journalist based in France who has written critically of the regime, returned to his homeland under cover in 1986. While visiting a small town he calls Kupayeh, he learned how an innocent 35-year-old woman had been stoned to death for supposed infidelity. His thorough reporting, based on a further visit to the village, reconstructs Soraya’s life and killing with much dialogue and interior monologue.
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Wer ist wir?: Deutschland und seine Muslime
Navid Kermani
Navid Kermanis Buch ist ein Essay, der dem ursprünglichen Gattungsbegriff des Essays insofern besonders gerecht wird, als er nie die persönliche Perspektive des Autors unterschlägt, seine Erfahrungen als Sohn iranischer muslimischer Einwanderer vielmehr ständig gegenwärtig macht und zu Rate zieht.
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Prisoner of Tehran: One Woman's Story of Survival Inside an Iranian Prison
Marina Nemat
At 16, Marina Nemat was arrested by two of Ayatollah Khomeini's soldiers. It was 1982, the height of the Iranian revolution. A devout Christian, she was deemed ''a danger to Islamic society'' for demanding that government propaganda be kept out of the classroom. Thrown in prison, she was beaten and sentenced to death, and most certainly would have been executed had one of her interrogators not spared her life — on the condition that she convert to Islam and marry him. Told in a simple, unsentimental style, Prisoner of Tehran is an extraordinary story of survival and how one woman finally found inner peace through the written word.
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Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World
Don Tapscott
Today’s young people are using technology in ways you could never imagine. Instead of passively watching television, the ``NET geners’’ are actively participating in the distribution of entertainment and information. For the first time in history, youth are the authorities on something really important. And they’re changing every aspect of our society; from the workplace to the marketplace, from the classroom to the living room, from the voting booth to the Oval office.
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