From Miniskirt to Hijab: A Girl in Revolutionary Iran
[book]
/ Jacqueline Saper.
[Lincoln] :
: Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press
, 2018.
1vol. (non paging)
: ill., map, facsimile
; 24.5 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215).
The best of both worlds -- My Iranian mothers -- The Shah's spectacular parties -- Cracks along the avenue -- England -- Homecoming -- When Jacqueline met Ebi -- Nightly calls of "Allahu-Akbar" -- The man in the moon -- The king is crying -- Utopia? -- My first referendum -- Executions -- My Jewish wedding in the Islamic Republic -- "Death to America" -- Invasion -- The sacred defense -- "Sister, guard your hijab" -- The downhill -- The second-class citizen -- Public life, private self -- Half of the world's beauty -- Front of the war, front of the plane -- "The martyr" -- Welcome to first grade -- Why is this night different? -- The view from the rooftop -- Flight.
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"From Miniskirt to Hijab is the story of an English-Iranian Jewish girl coming of age in Iran before, during, and after the Islamic Revolution"--
Saper
, Jacqueline
, 1961-
-- Childhood and youth.
Jewish women
-- Biography.
-- Iran
Iran
-- History
-- Personal narratives, Jewish.
-- Revolution, 1979
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DS135
.
I653S27
2018
Saper
, Jacqueline
, 1961-
Author
ایران
University of Tehran. Central Library and Documentation Center