Then They Came For Me (45 page)
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Authors: Maziar Bahari,Aimee Molloy
Tags: #Biographies & Memoirs, #Historical, #Middle East, #Leaders & Notable People, #Political, #Memoirs, #History, #Iran, #Turkey, #Law, #Constitutional Law, #Human Rights, #Politics & Social Sciences, #Politics & Government, #International & World Politics, #Canadian, #Middle Eastern, #Specific Topics
NONFICTION BOOKS
Tortured Confessions
by Ervand Abrahamian (University of California Press, 1999)
The Pivot of the Universe
by Abbas Amanat (I. B. Tauris, 2008)
The Quest for Democracy in Iran
by Fakhreddin Azimi (Harvard University Press, 2010)
Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 Coup in Iran
, edited by Mark J. Gasiorowski and Malcolm Byrne (Syracuse University Press, 2004)
Transit Tehran
, edited by Malu Halasa and Maziar Bahari (Garnet, 2008)
State and Society in Iran
by Homa Katouzian (I. B. Tauris, 2006)
The Persian Sphinx
by Abbas Milani (Mage, 2009)
The Mantle of the Prophet
by Roy Mottahedeh (Oneworld, 2008)
Treacherous Alliance
by Trita Parsi (Yale University Press, 2008)
The Iran Primer
, edited by Robin Wright (United States Institute of Peace Press, 2010)
The poetry of Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks (HarperOne, different years)
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
, translated by Edward Fitzgerald (Oxford University Press, 2009)
The poetry of Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky (Penguin, different years)
Strange Times, My Dear
, edited by Nahid Mozaffari and Ahmad Karimi Hakkak (Arcade Publishing, 2005)
My Uncle Napoleon
by Iraj Pezeshkzad, translated by Dick Davis (Modern Library, 2006)
You will also enjoy listening to the classic Persian music of Hossein Alizadeh, Kayhan Kalhor, Shahram Nazeri, and Mohammad Reza Shajarian and the modern Iranian music of Hitchkas, Kiosk, and Mohsen Namjoo.
Those interested in Iran should also watch the following films:
Rakhshan Bani Etemad:
Nargess
and
Under the Skin of the City
Asghar Farhadi:
Fireworks Wednesday
and
About Elly
Bahman Ghobadi:
A Time for Drunken Horses
Manijeh Hekmat:
Women’s Prison
Abbas Kiarostami:
The Traveler, Close-Up
, and
Ten
Majid Majidi:
Baran
and
The Color of Paradise
Dariush Mehrjui:
The Cow
and
The Tenants
Jafar Panahi:
The Circle
and
Offside
Kambuzia Partovi:
Border Café
Mahnaz Afzali:
The Red Card
Maziar Bahari:
And Along Came a Spider
and
An Iranian Odyssey
Rakshan Bani Etemad:
Our Times
Forough Farrokhzad:
The House Is Black
Albert Lamorisse:
The Lovers’ Wind
Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir-Hosseini:
Divorce, Iranian Style
Mohsen Makhmalbaf:
Salaam Cinema
Ebrahim Mokhtari:
The Tenancy
and
Zinat
Mehrdad Oskouei:
Nose, Iranian Style
and
The Other Side of Burka
Norma Percy:
Iran and the West
Hamid Rahmanian:
The Glass House
Kamran Shirdel:
The Night It Rained
M
AZIAR
B
AHARI
is an award-winning journalist, documentary filmmaker, and human-rights activist. A correspondent for
Newsweek
from 1998 to 2010, he was born in Tehran, Iran, and immigrated to Canada in 1988 to pursue his studies in film and political science. Bahari’s documentaries have been broadcast on stations around the world, including HBO, BBC, and the Discovery Channel. In 2009, he was named a finalist for Spain’s Prince of Asturias Award for Concord, often described as Spain’s Nobel Peace Prize; he was nominated by Desmond Tutu. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.
A
IMEE
M
OLLOY
is the co-author of three previous books:
Jantsen’s Gift
with Pam Cope;
This Moment on Earth
with Senator John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry; and
For God and Country
with James Yee. She also served as an editor of Laurie Strongin’s
Saving Henry
. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband.
