History & Culture

A history of Iran's political underdevelopment, of how and why social movements emerged, and of how they blossomed into revolutions that ultimately betrayed their ideals. Triumph and Despair tells the dramatic...

How the Islamic Republic has built a sphere of influence in the Middle East - and why it maintains it In recent decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran has poured...

Women, Life, Freedom The first major book on the new Iranian revolution 'A document of real optimism.' Guardian On Tuesday 13 September 2022, all Mahsa Amini has planned is a...

A deeply personal, politically impassioned portrait of the historic protests taking place in Iran, by a female witness and participant who must remain strictly anonymous. With an introduction by Christina...

Both revolutionary and reactionary, the Islamic Republic of Iran has long been a conundrum for Western observers. A theocracy that aspires to a popular mandate; an anti-colonial state with imperial...

Deliverance and Despair in IranBy 2013, Iranians were suffocating, as though the streets had become narrower, the buildings taller, the dirty air thicker. In electing Hassan Rouhani, they chose a...

The Shah, the Opposition, and the US, 1953-1968The Shah's gradual transition to dictatorship after the 1953 coup in Iran, and its far-reaching consequencesIn this detailed political history of Iran from...

If justice is an intrinsic value in Islam, why have women been treated as second-class citizens in Islamic legal tradition?Following the birth of Islamic feminism at the end of the...

Female prisoners of conscience and activists speak out against torture in Iranian prisonsWith a foreword by Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize winnerExtended solitary confinement has been condemned as a severe...