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Chronicles the events that made Iran the first revolutionary theocracy of the modern world, tracing its symbolism as a barometer of Eastern culture and upheaval while exploring the contributions of religion, politics, artists, journalists, and activists in shaping the country's circumstances.

"As a nine-year-old Tehrani schoolgirl during the Iranian Revolution, Nazila Fathi watched her country change before her eyes. The revolutionaries-- most of them poor, uneducated, and radicalized-- seized jobs, housing, and positions of power, transforming Iranian society practically overnight. But this socioeconomic revolution had an unintended effect. As Fathi shows, the forces unleashed in 1979 inadvertently created a robust Iranian middle class,...