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All the parts we exile : a memoir / by Nozari, Roza,author.;
"From a queer Muslim woman and artist, a generous, insightful memoir that traces her journey toward radical self-acceptance and of exile from her ancestral home. As the youngest of three daughters, and the only one born in Canada soon after her parents' emigration from Iran, Roza Nozari began her life hungry for a sense of belonging. From her early years, she shared a passion for Iranian cuisine with her mother and craved stories of their ancestral home. Eventually they visited and she fell in love with its sights and smells, and with the warm embrace of their extended family. Yet Roza sensed something was amiss with her mother's happy, well-rehearsed story of their original departure. As Roza grew older, this longing for home transformed into a desire for inner understanding and liberation. She was lit up by the feminist texts in her women's studies courses, and shared radical ideas with her mother -- who in turn shared more of her past, from protesting for the Islamic revolution to her ambivalence about getting married. In this memoir, Roza braids the narrative of her mother's life together with her own on-going story of self, as she arrives at, then rejects, her queer identity, eventually finds belonging in queer spaces and within queer Iranian histories, and learns the truth about her family's move to Canada. All the Parts We Exile is a memoir of dualities: mother and daughter, home and away, shame and self-acceptance, conflict and peace, love and pain -- and the stories that exist within and between them. In sharp, emotionally honest and funny prose, Roza tenderly explores the grief around the parts we exile and the joy of those we hold close in order to be true to our deepest selves"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Nozari, Roza.; Illustrators; Iranians; Mothers and daughters; Self-acceptance.; Muslim sexual minorities;
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Full battle rattle [sound recording] : my story as the longest-serving special forces A-Team soldier in American history / by Lahidji, Changiz,1950-author.; Pollins, Eric,narrator.; Pezzullo, Ralph,author.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Eric Pollins.
Subjects: Biographies.; Audiobooks.; Lahidji, Changiz, 1950-; United States. Army. Special Forces; United States. Army. Special Forces; Special operations (Military science); Iranian Americans; Persian Gulf War, 1991; Afghan War, 2001-;
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Full battle rattle : my story as the longest-serving special forces A-Team soldier in American history / by Lahidji, Changiz,1950-author.; Pezzullo, Ralph,author.;
Subjects: Biographies.; Lahidji, Changiz, 1950-; United States. Army. Special Forces; United States. Army. Special Forces; Special operations (Military science); Iranian Americans; Persian Gulf War, 1991; Afghan War, 2001-;
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The republic of imagination : America in three books / by Nafisi, Azar.;
Part I. Huck -- Part II. Babbitt -- Part III. Carson -- Epilogue."A passionate hymn to the power of fiction to change people's lives, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran. Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics to her eager students in Iran. In this exhilarating followup, Nafisi has written the book her fans have been waiting for: an impassioned, beguiling, and utterly original tribute to the vital importance of fiction in a democratic society. What Reading Lolita in Tehran was for Iran, The Republic of Imagination is for America. Taking her cue from a challenge thrown to her in Seattle, where a skeptical reader told her that Americans don't care about books the way they did back in Iran, she energetically responds to those who say fiction has nothing to teach us. Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favorite American novels-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Babbitt, and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, among others-she invites us to join her as citizens of her 'Republic of Imagination, ' a country where the villains are conformity and orthodoxy and the only passport to entry is a free mind and a willingness to dream"--rd
Subjects: Nafisi, Azar.; Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.; Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951.; McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967.; English teachers; Iranian American women; American fiction; Books and reading; National characteristics in literature.;
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Saffron ice cream / by Kheiriyeh, Rashin.;
Rashin is an Iranian immigrant girl living in New York, excited by her first trip to Coney Island, and fascinated by the differences in the beach customs between her native Iran and her new home--but she misses the saffron flavored ice cream that she used to eat.LSC
Subjects: Immigrant children; Iranians; Muslims; Beaches;
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No friend but the mountains : writing from Manus Prison / by Boochani, Behrouz,author.; Tofighian, Omid,translator.;
"In 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island, a refugee detention centre off the coast of Australia. He has been there ever since. This book is the result. Laboriously tapped out on a mobile phone and translated from the Farsi. It is a voice of witness, an act of survival. A lyric first-hand account. A cry of resistance. A vivid portrait through five years of incarceration and exile."--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Boochani, Behrouz.; Refugees, Kurdish; Iranians; Illegal aliens; Journalists; Alien detention centers;
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Dream's Gate. by Ahmadi, Negin,film director.; Visit Films (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by Visit Films in 2023.Armed only with her camera, Iranian filmmaker Negin Ahmadi journeys into the war zone of Northern Syria, embedding herself with the YPJ - an all-female Kurdish militia unit.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Foreign study.; Documentary films.; Middle East.; Current affairs.; Syria.;
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Ten Little Indians. by Collinson, Peter,film director.; Aznavour, Charles,actor.; Sommer, Elke,actor.; Reed, Oliver,actor.; Welles, Orson,actor.; Attenborough, Richard,actor.; Audran, Stéphane,actor.; All Channel Films (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Charles Aznavour, Elke Sommer, Oliver Reed, Orson Welles, Richard Attenborough, Stéphane AudranOriginally produced by All Channel Films in 1974.Ten people are invited to a hotel in the Iranian desert, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Horror films.; Motion Pictures.; Motion pictures, British.; Murder.; Detective and mystery films.; Iran.; Thrillers (Motion pictures).; Motion pictures--Europe.;
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The Persian Version. by Keshavarz, Maryam,film director.; Froushan, Arty,actor.; Daneshmand, Bijan,actor.; Mohammadi, Layla,actor.; Noor, Niousha,actor.; Mongrel Media (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Arty Froushan, Bijan Daneshmand, Layla Mohammadi, Niousha NoorOriginally produced by Mongrel Media in 2023.In this Sundance award-winner, when a large Iranian-American family gathers in New York, a secret is uncovered that catapults the estranged mother and daughter into an exploration of the past.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Comedy films.; Independent films.; Families.;
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Holy Spider. by Abbasi, Ali,film director.; Ashtiani, Arash,actor.; Jamshidnejad, Forouzan,actor.; Bajestani, Mehdi,actor.; Amir-Ebrahimi, Zar,actor.; Sphere Films (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Arash Ashtiani, Forouzan Jamshidnejad, Mehdi Bajestani, Zar Amir-EbrahimiOriginally produced by Sphere Films in 2022.A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called "Spider Killer", who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Horror films.; Crime.; Motion pictures, German.; Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.).;
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