Camelia: Save Yourself by Telling the Truth - A Memoir of Iran Contributor(s): Entekhabifard, Camelia (Author), Murer, George (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1583227199 ISBN-13: 9781583227190 Publisher: Seven Stories Press OUR PRICE: $21.56 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2007 Annotation: An extraordinarily vivid look inside post-revolutionary Iran, this is the memoir of an Iranian journalist who was sent to prison because of her bold coverage of current affairs for reformist newspapers. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Editors, Journalists, Publishers - History | Middle East - General - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2005028529 |
Physical Information: 0.91" H x 6.36" W x 7.99" (0.84 lbs) 256 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Middle East - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Camelia Entekhabifard was six years old in 1979 when the shah of Iran was overthrown by revolutionary supporters of the Ayatollah Khomeini. By the age of sixteen, Camelia was a nationally celebrated poet, and at eighteen she was one of the youngest reformist journalists in Tehran. Just eight years later she was imprisoned, held in solitary confinement, and charged with breaching national security and challenging the authority of the Islamic regime. Camelia is both a story of growing up in post-revolutionary Tehran and a haunting reminder of the consequences of speaking the truth in a repressive society. |