From Miniskirt to Hijab: A Girl in Revolutionary Iran

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From Miniskirt to Hijab: A Girl in Revolutionary Iran

Jacqueline Saper, named after JacquelineÂ Kennedy, was born in Tehran to Iranian and British parents. At eighteen she witnessed the civil unrest of the 1979 Iranian revolution and continued to live in the Islamic Republic during its most volatile times, including the Iran-Iraq War. In a deeply intimate and personal story, Saper recounts her privileged childhood in prerevolutionary Iran and how she gradually became aware of the paradoxes in her life and communityâ€”primarily the disparate religions and cultures.

In 1979 under the Ayatollah regime, Iran became increasingly unfamiliar and hostile to Saper. Seemingly overnight she went from living a carefree life of wearing miniskirts and attending high school to listening to fanatic diatribes, forced to wear the hijab, and hiding in the basement as Iraqi bombs fell over the city. She eventually fled to the United States in 1987 with her husband and children after, in part, witnessing her six-year-old daughterâ€™s indoctrination into radical Islamic politics at school. At the heart of Saperâ€™s story is a harrowing and instructive tale of how extremist ideologies seized a Westernized, affluent country and transformed it into a fundamentalist Islamic society.
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Country USA
Brand Potomac Books
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EANs 9781640121171
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Country	USA
Brand	Potomac Books
Manufacturer	POTOMAC BOOKS
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	unknown
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9781640121171
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

From Miniskirt to Hijab: A Girl in Revolutionary Iran

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