Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran
by Elaine Sciolino
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"Like the mirror mosaics found in Iran's royal palaces and religious shrines, there is more to the whole of the country than the fragments revealed to outsiders. Persian Mirrors captures this elusive Iran. Sciolino paints in astonishing detail and rich color the surprising inner life of this country, where a great battle is raging, not for control over territory but for the soul of the nation."--Jacket.Tags
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A great book! The author was first introduced to Iran when she flew with Ayatollah Khomeini into Iran. She spent the next twenty years covering events that have shaped the Islamic Republic. Presenting both her experiences with official representatives of Iran and the people throughout the country, Sciolino provides a provoking and in-depth view of the Iran.
nonfiction from a journalist's perspective. very slow, some insight into iranian culture.
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Author Information
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Elaine Sciolino is a senior writer in the Washington bureau of The New York Times and has also served as chief diplomatic correspondent, intelligence correspondent, and United Nations bureau chief. A former foreign correspondent and bureau chief for Newsweek, she has interviewed all the key leaders in Iran since its revolution.
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Common Knowledge
- People/Characters
- Ruhollah Khomeini; Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi; Farah Pahlavi; Mohammad Khatami; Elaine Sciolino; Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
- Important places
- Iran; Tehran, Iran; Qom, Iran; Shiraz, Iran
- Dedication
- In memory of Maynard Parker
- Publisher's editor
- Golob, Paul; Klayman, Rachel
- Blurbers
- Lapidus, Ira; Ciolkowski, Laura; Johnson, Diane; Gerecht, Reuel Marc; Safire, William; Beichman, Arnold (show all 11); Naim, Mouna; Robin, Joshua; Fassihi, Farnaz; Violanti, Anthony; Asayesh, Gelareh
- Original language
- English
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 4
- ASINs
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