Tehran From Above

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Tehran (Iran)
ISBN : 6006214695

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Tehran from Above by Anonim Pdf

Author : Shireen Mahdavi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429980039

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For God, Mammon, And Country by Shireen Mahdavi Pdf

This book is the first major account of the life and times of a merchant in nineteenth-century Iran or in the Middle East. Haj Muhammad Amin al-Zarb (1834?1898) rose from humble beginnings to become one of Iran's wealthiest and most prominent merchants. He built up his wealth as a money changer, a trader in textiles, precious stones, opium, carpets, agricultural products, and staple foodstuffs amongst other goods, and judicious transactions in land. Adept at cultivating powerful connections, he became the principal supplier of luxury goods to the Shah, his court, and members of the ruling elite; served as private banker to the Shah, his prime minister, and influential bureaucrats; and became Master of the Mint. He had agents in all the main towns of Persia and Europe with correspondents in Asia and America.Amin al-Zarb was also an entrepreneur, industrialist, and innovator. Determined to bring to Iran the advances he had witnessed in Europe, he invested in mining, established factories with imported machinery (such as glass, china, and silk reeling), built a railway line, and urged the Shah to establish a national bank. He also became an advocate of reform and curbs on arbitrary rule. He befriended the famous Islamic reformer, Jamal al-Din Afghani. An innovator in business, Amin al-Zarb led a very traditional life at home. Gifted at making money, he was nevertheless a pious man who contributed generously to religious and charitable causes. Shireen Mahdavi draws on hitherto unpublished family archives to write not only a biography of a fascinating nineteenth-century merchant but also a social history of the period. Her portrait of Amin al-Zarb also provides important insights into the economic, social, and political role played by merchants in Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East in the nineteenth century.

Author : Azar Nafisi
Publisher : Random House
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003-12-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781588360793

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Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • We all have dreams—things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi’s dream and of the nightmare that made it come true. For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. They were all former students whom she had taught at university. Some came from conservative and religious families, others were progressive and secular; several had spent time in jail. They were shy and uncomfortable at first, unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, but soon they began to open up and to speak more freely, not only about the novels they were reading but also about themselves, their dreams and disappointments. Their stories intertwined with those they were reading—Pride and Prejudice, Washington Square, Daisy Miller and Lolita—their Lolita, as they imagined her in Tehran. Nafisi’s account flashes back to the early days of the revolution, when she first started teaching at the University of Tehran amid the swirl of protests and demonstrations. In those frenetic days, the students took control of the university, expelled faculty members and purged the curriculum. When a radical Islamist in Nafisi’s class questioned her decision to teach The Great Gatsby, which he saw as an immoral work that preached falsehoods of “the Great Satan,” she decided to let him put Gatsby on trial and stood as the sole witness for the defense. Azar Nafisi’s luminous tale offers a fascinating portrait of the Iran-Iraq war viewed from Tehran and gives us a rare glimpse, from the inside, of women’s lives in revolutionary Iran. It is a work of great passion and poetic beauty, written with a startlingly original voice. Praise for Reading Lolita in Tehran “Anyone who has ever belonged to a book group must read this book. Azar Nafisi takes us into the vivid lives of eight women who must meet in secret to explore the forbidden fiction of the West. It is at once a celebration of the power of the novel and a cry of outrage at the reality in which these women are trapped. The ayatollahs don’ t know it, but Nafisi is one of the heroes of the Islamic Republic.”—Geraldine Brooks, author of Nine Parts of Desire

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1682224104

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Tehran Streetstyle by Anonim Pdf

Tehran Streetstyle is the first-ever in-print glimpse into the streets of modern Tehran, Iran from the lens of fashion and style. Certainly in present-day Iran, fashion is being used as an art form for personal expression with the potential to transcend borders, politics, and animosities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 972 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Germplasm resources, Plant
ISBN : IND:30000089913531

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Plant Inventory by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 918 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : United States
ISBN : MINN:31951T00248560V

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Foreign Relations of the United States by United States. Department of State Pdf

Author : Malu Halasa,Maziar Bahari
Publisher : Garnet Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 1859642152

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Transit Tehran by Malu Halasa,Maziar Bahari Pdf

Like other international cities, Tehran is filled with the religious, the irreligious and the indifferent. This work provides essays and picture stories to bring the city to life. It celebrates the country's long tradition of artistic and cultural resistance that has influenced young Iranians.

Author : Philip Kaplan
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781612198514

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Night in Tehran by Philip Kaplan Pdf

Based on historic events, and frighteningly relevant to today's headlines -- a taut thriller about one American diplomat’s year of living dangerously in Tehran in the days leading up to the Iranian Revolution … In the style of Alan Furst, this suspenseful thriller -- based on real events -- places an idealistic American diplomat in a turbulent, US-hating Tehran in the days leading up to the Iranian Revolution. Backed by the CIA, and trailed by a beautiful and engaging French journalist he suspects is a spy, David Weiseman's mission is to ease the Shah of Iran out of power and find the best alternative between the military, religious extremists, and the political ruling class -- many of whom are simultaneously trying to kill him.

Author : Richard Hunt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350055926

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Advanced Typography by Richard Hunt Pdf

Once you have learnt the fundamentals of typography, there is still a wealth of knowledge to grasp to really become a master in the art and craft of working with type. In Advanced Typography, expert practitioner and instructor Richard Hunt goes beyond the basics to take your understanding and usage to the next level. Taking a practical approach, the book combines visual, linguistic, historical and psychological systems with the broad range of applications and audiences of type today. From the challenges of designing across media and cultures, to type as information and craft, Hunt marries theoretical context with applied examples so you feel confident in improving your skills as an advanced typographer.

Author : Shahram Khosravi
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812206814

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Young and Defiant in Tehran by Shahram Khosravi Pdf

With more than half its population under twenty years old, Iran is one of the world's most youthful nations. The Iranian state characterizes its youth population in two ways: as a homogeneous mass, "an army of twenty millions" devoted to the Revolution, and as alienated, inauthentic, Westernized consumers who constitute a threat to the society. Much of the focus of the Islamic regime has been on ways to protect Iranian young people from moral hazards and to prevent them from providing a gateway for cultural invasion from the West. Iranian authorities express their anxieties through campaigns that target the young generation and its lifestyle and have led to the criminalization of many of the behaviors that make up youth culture. In this ethnography of contemporary youth culture in Iran's capital, Shahram Khosravi examines how young Tehranis struggle for identity in the battle over the right to self-expression. Khosravi looks closely at the strictures confronting Iranian youth and the ways transnational cultural influences penetrate and flourish. Focusing on gathering places such as shopping centers and coffee shops, Khosravi examines the practices of everyday life through which young Tehranis demonstrate defiance against the official culture and parental dominance. In addition to being sites of opposition, Khosravi argues, these alternative spaces serve as creative centers for expression and, above all, imagination. His analysis reveals the transformative power these spaces have and how they enable young Iranians to develop their own culture as well as individual and generational identities. The text is enriched by examples from literature and cinema and by livid reports from the author's fieldwork.

Author : Gülru Necipoğlu,Cemal Kafadar,Cornell H. Fleischer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1532 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004402508

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Treasures of Knowledge: An Inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library (1502/3-1503/4) (2 vols) by Gülru Necipoğlu,Cemal Kafadar,Cornell H. Fleischer Pdf

The subject of this two-volume publication is an inventory of manuscripts in the book treasury of the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul, commissioned by the Ottoman sultan Bayezid II from his royal librarian ʿAtufi in the year 908 (1502–3) and transcribed in a clean copy in 909 (1503–4). This unicum inventory preserved in the Oriental Collection of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Könyvtára Keleti Gyűjtemény, MS Török F. 59) records over 5,000 volumes, and more than 7,000 titles, on virtually every branch of human erudition at the time. The Ottoman palace library housed an unmatched encyclopedic collection of learning and literature; hence, the publication of this unique inventory opens a larger conversation about Ottoman and Islamic intellectual/cultural history. The very creation of such a systematically ordered inventory of books raises broad questions about knowledge production and practices of collecting, readership, librarianship, and the arts of the book at the dawn of the sixteenth century. The first volume contains twenty-eight interpretative essays on this fascinating document, authored by a team of scholars from diverse disciplines, including Islamic and Ottoman history, history of science, arts of the book and codicology, agriculture, medicine, astrology, astronomy, occultism, mathematics, philosophy, theology, law, mysticism, political thought, ethics, literature (Arabic, Persian, Turkish/Turkic), philology, and epistolary. Following the first three essays by the editors on implications of the library inventory as a whole, the other essays focus on particular fields of knowledge under which books are catalogued in MS Török F. 59, each accompanied by annotated lists of entries. The second volume presents a transliteration of the Arabic manuscript, which also features an Ottoman Turkish preface on method, together with a reduced-scale facsimile.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 996 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Gazetteers
ISBN : OXFORD:N10586799

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A Gazetteer of the World: Brazil-Derry by Anonim Pdf

Author : Arthur B. Shostak
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0765611767

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The Cyberunion Handbook by Arthur B. Shostak Pdf

In his original CyberUnion, the author presented a bold plan for unions to develop a more significant role in the 21st century by adopting four strategic aids - futuristics, innovations, services, and traditions (F-I-S-T) - knit together by cutting-edge Info Tech resources. CyberUnions in Action expands on the F-I-S-T model and looks at gains and setbacks in pioneering efforts to create "CyberUnions". It highlights relevant websites, and features interviews with key CyberUnion advocates (and some critics). Shostak reviews overseas union efforts for transferable lessons, and pays special attention to the AFL-CIO campaign to ensure Labor's advances in the use of computer networks, the Internet, wireless devices, and more.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814465830

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Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120097196

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JPRS Report by Anonim Pdf