Fariba: 10 books

Afghan-American journalist Fariba Nawa delivers a revealing and deeply personal explorationof Afghanistan and the drug trade which rules the country, from corruptofficials to warlords and child brides and beyond. KhaledHosseini, author of The Kite Runner and AThousand Splendid Suns calls Opium Nation...

This vividly detailed revisionist history exposes the underworld of the largest metropolis of the early modern Mediterranean and through it the entire fabric of a complex, multicultural society. Fariba Zarinebaf maps the history of crime and punishment in Istanbul over more than one hundred years,...

Mediterranean Encounters traces the layered history of Galata—a Mediterranean and Black Sea port—to the Ottoman conquest, and its transformation into a hub of European trade and diplomacy as well as a pluralist society of the early modern period. Framing the history of Ottoman-European encounters...

The Man Who Snapped His Fingers is a novel of ideas, exploring power and memory by an important female writer from a part of the world where female voices are routinely silenced.  A defiant book in the face of repressive governments, this book illustrates the universal fight for freedom happening...

Christmas is Peters favorite time of the year, but this year, he doesnt know what he wants for Christmas, and a big surprise lies ahead of him.

This book investigates why the rate of female labor force participation in the Middle East and North Africa is the lowest in the world. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the book explains that the primary reason for the low rate of female labor force participation is the strong institutions of patriarchy...

A country marked by controversy, Iran’s social, cultural and political dynamics are too often reduced to a few misleading clichés. Islamism is widely considered to shape all social relations in Iranian society and, while Iranian society is indeed Islamic, this term’s multiple meanings in everyday...

This is the story of life filled with illusion pretending to be truth.

Wie kommt die Welt in einen Adventskalender? Und woher kommen Engel? In Nanaels geheimnisvolle Weihnachtsreise, erlebt das Mädchen Darlene auf mysteriöser Weise, ihre wahrscheinlich aufregendste Abenteuerreise. Mit dem Öffnen des ersten Kalendertürchens und dem Eintreffen des mysteriösen Engels...

Après quelques mois à peine de sympathie, en 1978-1979, la révolution iranienne rassembla contre elle, dans l’opinion occidentale, une sorte de front uni de la répulsion et de la crainte. Depuis la mort de l’Imam Khomeini, les signaux que nous envoie la République islamique, d’apparence...