Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. - XIII+359 p. In 1978, as the protests against the Shah of Iran reached their zenith, philosopher Michel Foucault was working as a special correspondent for Corriere della Sera and le Nouvel Observateur. During his little-known stint as a journalist, Foucault traveled to Iran, met with leaders like Ayatollah Khomeini, and wrote a...
London; New Jersey: Zed Books Ltd., 1987. — 227 p. Bayat Assef. Workers and Revolution in Iran: The Experience of Workers' Control in the Third World (In English) Control Relations in a Capitalist Enterprise. Industrial Development and the Working Class in Iran. Proletarianization. Pre-Revolutionary Factories. The Industrial Working Class in the Revolution. The Shuras: The...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. - IX+224 p. On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran and took sixty-six Americans captive. Thus began the Iran Hostage Crisis, an affair that captivated the American public for 444 days and marked America's first confrontation with the forces of radical Islam. Using hundreds of recently...
London: Pluto Press, 2007. - 221 p. Iran is now in the eye of the storm. As events in Iraq deteriorate, a US invasion of Iran looms as a real threat. This book provides a detailed analysis of Iran's recent history, and in particular how the country has been shaped by the 1979 revolution. It is often forgotten that modern Iran is a revolutionary republic that arose out of the...
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