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Iran am Vorabend der Revolution. Das Schah-Regime wankt. Die Regierungstreuen verlieren an Macht, die revolutionären Kräfte werden rasch von den Mullahs dominiert. Mit Ajatollah Khomeini übernehmen sie schon bald die Herrschaft.Afschin Banai arbeitet in einem Elektrounternehmen. Er hatte einst in Deutschland gegen den Schah demonstriert und bezahlt die Kritik mit einem Ausreiseverbot. Durch das Land geht ein Riss. Gewaltexzesse, Misstrauen und Verrat sind an der Tagesordnung. Dies hinterlässt auch schmerzhafte Wunden zwischen Afschin und seiner großen Liebe Negin. Afschin gerät gleichzeitig ins Fadenkreuz der Regierungstreuen und der islamischen Revolutionäre. Sein Leben ist in Gefahr. Mit Negin versucht er schließlich aus dem Land zu fliehen.'Frühling der Freiheit' ist ein bewegender Roman. Er zeigt, wie die Islamische Republik entstand und schildert, wie die Liebe zweier Menschen in dieser politisch entscheidenden Phase auf eine harte Probe gestellt wird. Ein ergreifendes Zeugnis der Zeitgeschichte.

This study delves into the pivotal role of Islam in the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, examining its profound influence on domestic and international affairs. The revolution of 1979, occurring amid discussions of secularism, marked a significant turning point, as it reintroduced a purified form of Islam as a central ideology. The Islamic Republic of Iran stands out as a unique case within the modern international order, being the first and perhaps the only religious revolution in this context. It not only imposed its revolutionary ideals on the prevailing international order but also introduced the principles of religion into the international regime.This investigation explores the multifaceted role of Islam in the realm of international relations theory, highlighting its significance as a key variable in shaping Iran's foreign policy. It also examines how the dominant theories in international relations can be used to analyze Iran's foreign policy, considering the complex interplay between Islamic principles and international realities. Unlike other Muslim countries, Iran's interpretation of Islam is deeply ingrained in its political authority and daily life, making it a distinct entity in the international arena. The study further underscores the unique nature of the Iranian revolution, which introduced the concept of velayat-e faqih (Guardianship of Islamic Jurists) based on Islamic law and reshaped the country's governance system, both domestically and in its foreign affairs.

The dynamic and interconnected ways Afghans and Iranians invented their modern selves through literature.

"It is 1977, and the anti-shah protests at Tehran University are intensifying. Amineh will soon have her degree in Persian literature, but unlike her fellow students, she would rather not participate in the increasingly dangerous movement. Her thoughts are on her past of rose harvests and poetry readings under the desert sky, a past when her parents were still alive. Over a picnic, Amineh reluctantly agrees to accompany her best friend, Ava, to an underground meeting. There, she meets Farzad, an opposition leader with a plan to remove the shah and rid the world of another threat that hangs over them all. Amineh will soon find her life inextricably wound with Farzad's, and as the revolution unfolds, she will be tested by a country she doesn't recognize, by war, and by a husband who has other things on his mind. She will have to come to terms with a trauma from her past, and ultimately, she will have one final chance to choose love"--]cProvided by publisher.

WINNER OF THE 2023 MIDDLE EAST LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION BOOK AWARD.The Franklin Book Programs (FBP) was a private not-for-profit U.S. organization founded in 1952 during the Cold War and was subsidized by the United States' government agencies as well as private corporations. The FBP was initially intended to promote U.S. liberal values, combat Soviet influence and to create appropriate markets for U.S. books in 'Third World' of which the Middle East was an important part, but evolved into an international educational program publishing university textbooks, schoolbooks, and supplementary readings. In Iran, working closely with the Pahlavi regime, its activities included the development of printing, publishing, book distribution, and bookselling institutions.This book uses archival sources from the FBP, US intelligence agencies and in Iran, to piece together this relationship. Put in the context of wider cultural diplomacy projects operated by the US, it reveals the extent to which the programme shaped Iran's educational system. Together the history of the FBP, its complex network of state and private sector, the role of U.S. librarians, publishers, and academics, and the joint projects the FBP organized in several countries with the help of national ministries of education, financed by U.S. Department of State and U.S. foundations, sheds new light on the long history of education in imperialist social orders, in the context here of the ongoing struggle for influence in the Cold War.

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The Laurence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal, presented by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State, recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce innovations to further democracy in the United States or around the world.Nasrin Sotoudeh is an Iranian lawyer and human rights activist who has been called "Iran's Nelson Mandela." Sotoudeh is a longtime opponent of the death penalty, advocate of improving imprisonment health conditions, and an activist dedicated to fighting for the rights of women, children, religious and ethnic minorities, journalists and artists, and those facing execution. As a result of her advocacy, Sotoudeh has been repeatedly imprisoned by the Iranian government for crimes against the state; she served one sentence from 2010 to 2013 and was sentenced again in 2018 to thirty-eight years and six months in prison and 148 lashes. Her work has been featured in the 2020 documentary Nasrin, by filmmakers Jeff Kaufman and Marcia S. Ross. For this important work, she is the recipient of the 2023 Brown Democracy Medal from the McCourtney Institute for Democracy, marking the award's tenth year.

Examines how the arts popularised militant resistance to the monarchy in 1970s Iran At a time of growing state control, censorship and wholesale crackdown on opposition in post-1953 Iran, intellectuals and artists began to produce works that defied the Shah's dictatorship and the regime's 'Great Civilisation' propaganda. With the emergence of urban guerrilla warfare in 1971 - spearheaded by the Marxist People's Fadai Guerrillas (PFG) - dissident artists created symbolic works that popularised the militants' ideas through artistic depictions and tropes, while portraying the militants as immortal freedom-fighters. The arts of defiance thus swayed young educated Iranians, as well as certain layers of the public, to perceive the state through the eyes of its most radical critiques: militant dissidents. By closely examining and interpreting the poetry, fiction, songs and films of the 1960s and 1970s, this book uncovers how militant action was translated into artistic expressions and vice versa. It also explores how the PFG militants - who were few in number - were able to acquire a 'heroic' dimension in the eyes of the public, portraying a symbolic image of defiance far beyond their actual militant existence. Key Features  The first comprehensive study of the relationship between the arts and revolutionary action of Iranian dissidents of the 1970s  Examines popular poets (Nima Yushij, Ahmad Shamlu, Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, Khosrow Golesorkhi), writers (Sadeq Chubak, Samad Behrangi, Gholam Hossein Sa'edi), filmmakers (Massoud Kimiai, Amir Naderi, Ebrahim Golestan), lyricists (Shahyar Ghanbari and Iraj Janantie-Atai) and singers (Farhad Mehrad and Dariush Eghbali)  Provides an analytical approach that reveals how arts and action are braided and inseparable through symbols and semiosis Peyman Vahabzadeh is Professor of Sociology at University of Victoria. He is the author of many books, including A Guerrilla Odyssey: Modernization, Secularism, Democracy and the Fadai Discourse of National Liberation in Iran, 1971-1979 (2010) and A Rebel's Journey: Mostafa Sho'aiyan and Revolutionary Theory in Iran (2019).

Tracing the history of the sugar trade and its consumption in the Persian Gulf during the 18th century, this book explores the interplay of social, economic and political interests created by this popular commodity. The study of sugar has, until now, focused mainly on its significant growth in European markets from the mid-17th century and, more recently, parallel developments in East Asia. In this book, Daito how the sugar trade also developed in, and became important to, the Indian Ocean World. Studying how the consumption of sugar wavered after the brutal overthrow of the Safavid dynasty in 1722, this book shows how the Dutch East India Company and the trading network responded to political upheavals in the region and, consequently, the changing trading conditions. Arguing that sugar continued to be imported and consumed despite these political disturbances, Sugar and the Indian Ocean World proves this was not a period of economic stagnation for the region, and shows how sugar became an important intersection between socio-cultural practices and the Indian Ocean economy.