Zahra's Paradise

Zahra's Paradise
Title Zahra's Paradise PDF eBook
Author Amir
Publisher Macmillan
Total Pages 271
Release 2011-09-13
Genre Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN 1596436425

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Set in the aftermath of Iran's fraudulent elections of 2009, Zahra's Paradise is the fictional graphic novel of the search for Mehdi, a young protestor who has vanished into an extrajudicial twilight zone.

Verax

Verax
Title Verax PDF eBook
Author Pratap Chatterjee
Publisher Metropolitan Books
Total Pages 240
Release 2017-10-24
Genre Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN 1250196329

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From a prize-winning journalist and the co-author of the best-selling Zahra's Paradise, a sweeping graphic history of electronic surveillance from 9/11 to the latest drone strike 9/11 not only marked the worst domestic terror attack in U.S. history, but also unleashed electronic spying by the government on a massive worldwide scale. In a wholly original and engaging telling, Verax ("truth-teller" and one of Edward Snowden's code names) recounts the full story of American electronic surveillance post 9/11, in brilliant comics form. We follow Pratap Chatterjee, journalist sleuth, as he dives deep into the world of electronic surveillance and introduces its cast of characters: developers, companies, users, government agencies, whistleblowers, journalists, and, in a leading role, the devices themselves. He explains the complex ways governments follow the movements and interactions of individuals and countries, whether by tracking the players of Angry Birds, deploying "Stingrays" that listen in on phone calls or "deep packet inspection" that mines email, or by weaponizing programs with names like Howlermonkey and Godsurge to attack the infrastructure of states such as Iran and remotely guide the U.S. missiles used in drone killings. He chronicles the complicity of corporations like Apple, Verizon, and Google, and the daring of the journalists and whistleblowers—from Snowden to Julian Assange to the lesser-known NSA Four—who made sure that the world would know. Finally, he gives a prognosis for the future of electronic surveillance, and for the fortunes of those who resist it. By condensing a crucial event of the 21st century and a broad, complex history into a compact, engaging, and vivid work, Verax is a significant contribution that is certain to last.

After the Spring

After the Spring
Title After the Spring PDF eBook
Author Hélène Aldeguer
Publisher
Total Pages 0
Release 2019
Genre Arab Spring, 2010-
ISBN 9781684067909

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In 2011 one of the biggest political events in the world, the Arab Spring, swept across North Africa. But what came next? As the world moves on, four young Tunisians must cope with the reality of an uncertain future in this original graphic novel.

An Iranian Metamorphosis

An Iranian Metamorphosis
Title An Iranian Metamorphosis PDF eBook
Author Mānā Nayastānī
Publisher Uncivilized Books
Total Pages 0
Release 2014
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780988901445

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A cockroach landed Iranian cartoonist Mana Neyestani in jail and turned his life upside down.

Persian Paradises at Peril

Persian Paradises at Peril
Title Persian Paradises at Peril PDF eBook
Author Farzin Fardanesh
Publisher Springer Nature
Total Pages 293
Release 2021-03-30
Genre Political Science
ISBN 3030625508

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This book offers a resourceful collection of essays examining recent efforts to respond to the challenges of planning, management and conserving landscapes in contemporary Iran, the home of Persian gardens. Drawing on selected recent studies, the chapters discuss the following topics: The sphere of knowledge and theoretical bases, including a survey of recent and ongoing research; Persian gardens remaining from the 6th century BC to the 19th century AD, which have influenced garden design in a vast geographic domain extending from India to Spain; Management and conservation of cultural landscapes, historic urban landscapes (HUL), road landscapes, and natural landscapes in the face of changes in climatic conditions and livelihood practices affecting their delicate dynamic balance and functions essential to their distinctive character; and Historic Territorial Landscapes (HTL) formed and evolved along the Silk and Spice Roads as compositions of tangible and intangible elements resulting from movement, exchanges and dialogue in space and over time. The book is a useful resource for a range of academics and professionals, such as landscape architects and managers, landscape historians and conservationists, and urban planners and managers.

Love in a Headscarf

Love in a Headscarf
Title Love in a Headscarf PDF eBook
Author Shelina Zahra Janmohamed
Publisher Aurum
Total Pages 286
Release 2020-05-05
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1845138287

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‘At the age of thirteen, I knew I was destined to marry John Travolta. One day he would arrive on my North London doorstep, fall madly in love with me and ask me to marry him. Then he would convert to Islam and become a devoted Muslim.’ Shelina is keeping a very surprising secret under her headscarf – she wants to fall in love. Torn between the Buxom Aunties, romantic comedies and mosque Imams, she decides to follow the arranged-marriage route to finding Mr Right, Muslim-style. Shelina’s captivating journey begins as a search for the One, but along the way she also discovers her faith and herself. A memoir with a hilarious twist from one of Britain’s leading female Muslim writers, Love in a Headscarf is an entertaining, fresh and unmissable insight into what it means to be a young British Muslim woman. Shelina Janmohamed is a columnist for the Muslim News and EMEL magazine and regularly contributes to the Guardian., the BBC and Channel 4. She is much in demand as a commentator on radio and television and has appeared on programmes including Newsnight and The Heaven and Earth Show. Her award-winning blog, Spirit 21, is hugely popular. Love in a Headscarf is her first book.

Kissing the Sword

Kissing the Sword
Title Kissing the Sword PDF eBook
Author Shahrnush Parsipur
Publisher The Feminist Press at CUNY
Total Pages 226
Release 2013-05-21
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1558618163

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An internationally acclaimed writer's harrowing tale of imprisonment in Iran, and her gripping story of getting out.