Irāna

Mūsdienu Irāna pulsē ar spriedzi starp tradīciju un pārmaiņām, kur senā persiešu kultūra satiekas ar mūsdienu politiskajiem satricinājumiem un sociālajām pārmaiņām. Caur memuāriem, vēstures darbiem un stāstiem – gan intīmiem, gan plašiem – lasītāji kļūst par lieciniekiem dzejnieku un protestētāju tautai, kur personīgās dzīves savijas ar izšķirošiem brīžiem, kas turpina veidot Tuvo Austrumu likteni.

Irāna Grāmatu kopsavilkumi

Teherānas lauvu sievietes

autors: Marjan Kamali

A childhood bond in 1950s Tehran must weather revolution, betrayal, and decades of separation.

4.47

200 000+

🇮🇷 Iranian Revolution 👭 Childhood Friends 💔 Betrayal

Iespaidīgās

Teherānas lauvu sievietes

A childhood bond in 1950s Tehran must weather revolution, betrayal, and decades of separation.

autors: Marjan Kamali 2024 327 lappuses

4.47

200 000+ vērtējumi

🇮🇷 Iranian Revolution 👭 Childhood Friends 💔 Betrayal

Funny in Farsi

autors: Firoozeh Dumas • 2003

A seven-year-old Iranian girl moves to California. Disneyland awes her. Hostages change everything.

3.84

27 000+

🧳 Immigrant Memoir 🇮🇷 Iranian Diaspora 🌏 Culture Shock

Funny in Farsi

A seven-year-old Iranian girl moves to California. Disneyland awes her. Hostages change everything.

autors: Firoozeh Dumas 2003 240 lappuses

3.84

27 000+ vērtējumi

🧳 Immigrant Memoir 🇮🇷 Iranian Diaspora 🌏 Culture Shock

Kancelejas preču veikals

autors: Marjan Kamali • 2019

Two teenagers fall in love in a Tehran stationery shop. The 1953 coup tears them apart.

4.23

100 000+

📖 Literary Love Story 🕌 Iranian Diaspora 💌 Lost Love Reunited

Kancelejas preču veikals

Two teenagers fall in love in a Tehran stationery shop. The 1953 coup tears them apart.

autors: Marjan Kamali 2019

4.23

100 000+ vērtējumi

📖 Literary Love Story 🕌 Iranian Diaspora 💌 Lost Love Reunited

The Blind Owl

autors: Sadegh Hedayat • 1937

Between opium dreams and waking torment, a painter obsesses over a vision that unmakes his reality.

3.95

35 000+

🔪 Psychological Horror 📜 Modernist Classic 🫣 Unreliable Narrator

The Blind Owl

Between opium dreams and waking torment, a painter obsesses over a vision that unmakes his reality.

autors: Sadegh Hedayat 1937 148 lappuses

3.95

35 000+ vērtējumi

🔪 Psychological Horror 📜 Modernist Classic 🫣 Unreliable Narrator

Black Wave

autors: Kim Ghattas • 2020

The 1979 contest between Saudi Arabia and Iran that dismantled a region’s cultural soul.

4.40

6000+

🏛️ Middle Eastern History ⚔️ Saudi-Iran Rivalry 🕌 Sectarian Conflict

Black Wave

The 1979 contest between Saudi Arabia and Iran that dismantled a region’s cultural soul.

autors: Kim Ghattas 2020 400 lappuses

4.40

6000+ vērtējumi

🏛️ Middle Eastern History ⚔️ Saudi-Iran Rivalry 🕌 Sectarian Conflict

Not Without My Daughter

autors: Betty Mahmoody • 1987

Two weeks in Iran became forever. Her husband held the law. She held their daughter.

4.19

39 000+

🔗 Coercive Control 🏔️ Escape Memoirs 🕌 Islamic Patriarchy

Not Without My Daughter

Two weeks in Iran became forever. Her husband held the law. She held their daughter.

autors: Betty Mahmoody 1987 528 lappuses

4.19

39 000+ vērtējumi

🔗 Coercive Control 🏔️ Escape Memoirs 🕌 Islamic Patriarchy

سمفونی مردگان

autors: عباس معروفی • 1989

A domineering father in frozen Ardabil breeds rebellion and a shattering family betrayal.

4.27

21 000+

🏠 Iranian Family Saga 📖 Persian Literature 👪 Patriarchal Family

سمفونی مردگان

A domineering father in frozen Ardabil breeds rebellion and a shattering family betrayal.

autors: عباس معروفی 1989 352 lappuses

4.27

21 000+ vērtējumi

🏠 Iranian Family Saga 📖 Persian Literature 👪 Patriarchal Family

The Fall of Heaven

autors: Andrew Scott Cooper • 2016

Oil wealth, repression, reform: how Iran's last shah built the forces that destroyed him.

4.16

500+

🕌 Modern Iranian History 🌍 Middle Eastern Politics 🏗️ Authoritarian Modernization

The Fall of Heaven

Oil wealth, repression, reform: how Iran's last shah built the forces that destroyed him.

autors: Andrew Scott Cooper 2016 608 lappuses

4.16

500+ vērtējumi

🕌 Modern Iranian History 🌍 Middle Eastern Politics 🏗️ Authoritarian Modernization

Iran Awakening

autors: Shirin Ebadi • 2006

Iran stripped her of her judgeship. She became the regime's most dangerous opponent: a lawyer.

4.18

5000+

🧕 Iranian Women 🏛️ Post-Revolutionary Iran 📜 Islamic Feminism

Iran Awakening

Iran stripped her of her judgeship. She became the regime's most dangerous opponent: a lawyer.

autors: Shirin Ebadi 2006 256 lappuses

4.18

5000+ vērtējumi

🧕 Iranian Women 🏛️ Post-Revolutionary Iran 📜 Islamic Feminism

Khomeinism

autors: Ervand Abrahamian • 1993

The Islamic Republic was never fundamentalist. It was populist, and that explains everything.

3.89

171

🏴 Iranian Revolution 🇮🇷 Modern Iran 🗳️ Populism

Khomeinism

The Islamic Republic was never fundamentalist. It was populist, and that explains everything.

autors: Ervand Abrahamian 1993 200 lappuses

3.89

171 vērtējumi

🏴 Iranian Revolution 🇮🇷 Modern Iran 🗳️ Populism

Target Tehran

autors: Yonah Jeremy Bob • 2023

Inside the Mossad heist that stole Iran's nuclear archive and exposed its secret weapons program.

4.07

450

🕵️ Israeli Intelligence ☢️ Nuclear Proliferation ⚔️ Covert Operations

Target Tehran

Inside the Mossad heist that stole Iran's nuclear archive and exposed its secret weapons program.

autors: Yonah Jeremy Bob 2023 432 lappuses

4.07

450 vērtējumi

🕵️ Israeli Intelligence ☢️ Nuclear Proliferation ⚔️ Covert Operations

Persian Girls

autors: Nahid Rachlin • 2006

One sister left Iran for America. One stayed through revolution. Letters bridged the distance.

3.92

3000+

🧳 Iranian Diaspora 🌍 Immigrant Memoirs 🪞 Dual Identity

Persian Girls

One sister left Iran for America. One stayed through revolution. Letters bridged the distance.

autors: Nahid Rachlin 2006 304 lappuses

3.92

3000+ vērtējumi

🧳 Iranian Diaspora 🌍 Immigrant Memoirs 🪞 Dual Identity

The Shia Revival

autors: Vali Nasr • 2006

America's Iraq invasion accidentally broke a 1,400-year Sunni order. Iran seized the opening.

3.88

2000+

🕌 Sectarian Conflict 📜 Islamic History 🖐️ Shia Identity

The Shia Revival

America's Iraq invasion accidentally broke a 1,400-year Sunni order. Iran seized the opening.

autors: Vali Nasr 2006 314 lappuses

3.88

2000+ vērtējumi

🕌 Sectarian Conflict 📜 Islamic History 🖐️ Shia Identity

The Ayatollah Begs to Differ

autors: Hooman Majd • 2008

Iran's paradoxes are a platform, not a bug, built from Shia ritual and Persian pride.

3.76

2000+

🇮🇷 Iranian Politics 🕌 Shia Islam 🏡 Persian Culture

The Ayatollah Begs to Differ

Iran's paradoxes are a platform, not a bug, built from Shia ritual and Persian pride.

autors: Hooman Majd 2008 272 lappuses

3.76

2000+ vērtējumi

🇮🇷 Iranian Politics 🕌 Shia Islam 🏡 Persian Culture

Persians

autors: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones • 2022

Herodotus told one story. Persian tablets and reliefs tell another, and they survive.

4.07

2000+

🇮🇷 Persian History 🏛️ Ancient Empires 👑 Imperial Governance

Persians

Herodotus told one story. Persian tablets and reliefs tell another, and they survive.

autors: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 2022 448 lappuses

4.07

2000+ vērtējumi

🇮🇷 Persian History 🏛️ Ancient Empires 👑 Imperial Governance

Until We Are Free

autors: Shirin Ebadi • 2016

A Nobel for human rights in Iran. Exile, seized assets, and threats to her family followed.

4.27

1000+

🇮🇷 Iranian Politics ✊ Human Rights Activism 🔒 Political Repression

Until We Are Free

A Nobel for human rights in Iran. Exile, seized assets, and threats to her family followed.

autors: Shirin Ebadi 2016 304 lappuses

4.27

1000+ vērtējumi

🇮🇷 Iranian Politics ✊ Human Rights Activism 🔒 Political Repression

All the Shah's Men

autors: Stephen Kinzer • 2003

The 1953 CIA coup in Iran: how a quick win for oil created decades of blowback.

4.29

12 000+

🏛️ Iranian History 🕵️ Covert Operations 🛢️ Oil Geopolitics

All the Shah's Men

The 1953 CIA coup in Iran: how a quick win for oil created decades of blowback.

autors: Stephen Kinzer 2003 272 lappuses

4.29

12 000+ vērtējumi

🏛️ Iranian History 🕵️ Covert Operations 🛢️ Oil Geopolitics

Sasanian Persia

autors: Touraj Daryaee • 2007

Rome's greatest rival invented an Iranian identity that outlived the empire itself.

3.84

180

🏛️ Ancient Persia ⏳ Late Antiquity 🧱 Empire Building

Sasanian Persia

Rome's greatest rival invented an Iranian identity that outlived the empire itself.

autors: Touraj Daryaee 2007 256 lappuses

3.84

180 vērtējumi

🏛️ Ancient Persia ⏳ Late Antiquity 🧱 Empire Building

Iran

autors: Abbas Amanat • 2017

Shi'ism became Iran's state religion in 1501, creating a unique nation and centuries of conflict.

4.23

500+

🧱 Safavid Iran 🕌 State Religion 🐎 Nomadic Empires

Iran

Shi'ism became Iran's state religion in 1501, creating a unique nation and centuries of conflict.

autors: Abbas Amanat 2017 1085 lappuses

4.23

500+ vērtējumi

🧱 Safavid Iran 🕌 State Religion 🐎 Nomadic Empires

Joseph Anton

autors: Salman Rushdie • 2012

A novelist with a bounty on his head. A decade in hiding. The books he wrote to survive.

3.65

9000+

📖 Literary Memoir ✍️ Writers Under Threat 🗣️ Free Speech Advocacy

Joseph Anton

A novelist with a bounty on his head. A decade in hiding. The books he wrote to survive.

autors: Salman Rushdie 2012 656 lappuses

3.65

9000+ vērtējumi

📖 Literary Memoir ✍️ Writers Under Threat 🗣️ Free Speech Advocacy

Lipstick Jihad

autors: Azadeh Moaveni • 2005

A pink headscarf, a bugged apartment: she returned to Iran to belong, but the country disagreed.

3.70

4000+

🧳 Iranian Diaspora 🇮🇷 Post-Revolutionary Iran 🌉 Hyphenated Identities

Lipstick Jihad

A pink headscarf, a bugged apartment: she returned to Iran to belong, but the country disagreed.

autors: Azadeh Moaveni 2005 272 lappuses

3.70

4000+ vērtējumi

🧳 Iranian Diaspora 🇮🇷 Post-Revolutionary Iran 🌉 Hyphenated Identities

Den of Spies

autors: Craig Unger • 2024

The Reagan campaign's secret pact with Iran: keep the hostages captive and win the White House.

3.84

264

🇺🇸 American Political History 🇮🇷 Iran-Us Relations 🗳️ Election Manipulation

Den of Spies

The Reagan campaign's secret pact with Iran: keep the hostages captive and win the White House.

autors: Craig Unger 2024 368 lappuses

3.84

264 vērtējumi

🇺🇸 American Political History 🇮🇷 Iran-Us Relations 🗳️ Election Manipulation

خون و نفت خاطرات یک شاهزاده ایرانی

autors: Manoucher Farmanfarmaian • 1997

A Qajar prince's childhood in a seven-hundred-person harem. Forty years in oil. Then the revolution.

4.04

185

🇮🇷 Iranian History 👑 Royal Memoir 🛢️ Oil Politics

خون و نفت خاطرات یک شاهزاده ایرانی

A Qajar prince's childhood in a seven-hundred-person harem. Forty years in oil. Then the revolution.

autors: Manoucher Farmanfarmaian 1997 576 lappuses

4.04

185 vērtējumi

🇮🇷 Iranian History 👑 Royal Memoir 🛢️ Oil Politics

Kurdish Women's Stories

autors: Houzan Mahmoud • 2021

Kurdish women, cast as victims or fighters, tell their own stories here. Neither label fits.

4.40

194

🗺️ Kurdish History ⚔️ Women In Conflict 🗣️ Oral History

Kurdish Women's Stories

Kurdish women, cast as victims or fighters, tell their own stories here. Neither label fits.

autors: Houzan Mahmoud 2021 224 lappuses

4.40

194 vērtējumi

🗺️ Kurdish History ⚔️ Women In Conflict 🗣️ Oral History

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

autors: Omar Khayyám • 1120

Facing the certainty of death, a Persian poet prescribes wine, love, and acceptance of the moment.

4.17

23 000+

🍷 Carpe Diem 📜 Persian Poetry 💀 Memento Mori

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

Facing the certainty of death, a Persian poet prescribes wine, love, and acceptance of the moment.

autors: Omar Khayyám 1120 52 lappuses

4.17

23 000+ vērtējumi

🍷 Carpe Diem 📜 Persian Poetry 💀 Memento Mori

From Miniskirt to Hijab

autors: Jacqueline Saper • 2019

A Jewish girl's Tehran: cocktail parties, then revolution, then air raids, then one desperate exit.

4.16

500+

🏴 Iranian Revolution ✡️ Jewish Diaspora ✈️ Exile Memoirs

From Miniskirt to Hijab

A Jewish girl's Tehran: cocktail parties, then revolution, then air raids, then one desperate exit.

autors: Jacqueline Saper 2019 240 lappuses

4.16

500+ vērtējumi

🏴 Iranian Revolution ✡️ Jewish Diaspora ✈️ Exile Memoirs

The Melting Point

autors: Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr. • 2024

The general who killed Soleimani tells the inside story of America's Middle East wars.

4.30

175

🎖️ Military Command 🎯 Counterterrorism Operations 🏛️ Civil-Military Relations

The Melting Point

The general who killed Soleimani tells the inside story of America's Middle East wars.

autors: Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr. 2024 360 lappuses

4.30

175 vērtējumi

🎖️ Military Command 🎯 Counterterrorism Operations 🏛️ Civil-Military Relations

Badjens

autors: Delphine Minoui • 2024

In Iran, after a woman dies in custody, an unwanted girl joins the uprising.

4.25

1000+

🌱 Political Coming-Of-Age 👭 Female Solidarity 🧕 Hijab Rebellion

Badjens

In Iran, after a woman dies in custody, an unwanted girl joins the uprising.

autors: Delphine Minoui 2024 160 lappuses

4.25

1000+ vērtējumi

🌱 Political Coming-Of-Age 👭 Female Solidarity 🧕 Hijab Rebellion

The Persians

autors: Sanam Mahloudji • 2024

An Aspen arrest unravels decades of secrets among three generations of Iranian women in exile.

3.37

5000+

🏠 Family Saga 🌍 Iranian Diaspora 🤫 Family Secrets

The Persians

An Aspen arrest unravels decades of secrets among three generations of Iranian women in exile.

autors: Sanam Mahloudji 2024 384 lappuses

3.37

5000+ vērtējumi

🏠 Family Saga 🌍 Iranian Diaspora 🤫 Family Secrets

The Parthian

autors: Peter Darman • 2011

Taken as a Roman slave, a Parthian prince joins Spartacus's rebellion to fight his way home.

4.26

1000+

🏛️ Ancient World Epic ⚔️ Military Historical Fiction ⛓️ Slave Rebellion

The Parthian

Taken as a Roman slave, a Parthian prince joins Spartacus's rebellion to fight his way home.

autors: Peter Darman 2011 722 lappuses

4.26

1000+ vērtējumi

🏛️ Ancient World Epic ⚔️ Military Historical Fiction ⛓️ Slave Rebellion

[(The Coup

autors: Ervand Abrahamian • 2013

Oil, not communism, drove the 1953 Iran coup. Its buried logic still poisons US-Iran relations.

4.13

500+

📜 Iranian History 🕵️ Covert Operations 🛢️ Oil Politics

[(The Coup

Oil, not communism, drove the 1953 Iran coup. Its buried logic still poisons US-Iran relations.

autors: Ervand Abrahamian 2013

4.13

500+ vērtējumi

📜 Iranian History 🕵️ Covert Operations 🛢️ Oil Politics

King of Kings

autors: Scott Anderson • 2025

A deluded king, a blind superpower, and the cassette tapes that toppled a dynasty.

4.33

4000+

🏴 Iranian Revolution 🕌 Middle East Politics 🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy

King of Kings

A deluded king, a blind superpower, and the cassette tapes that toppled a dynasty.

autors: Scott Anderson 2025 481 lappuses

4.33

4000+ vērtējumi

🏴 Iranian Revolution 🕌 Middle East Politics 🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy

The Complete Infidel's Guide to Iran

autors: Robert Spencer • 2016

Iran's theology commands deception and world conquest. The nuclear deal ignored both.

3.53

🏛️ Iranian Politics 🕌 Islamic Theocracy 📜 Political Islam

The Complete Infidel's Guide to Iran

Iran's theology commands deception and world conquest. The nuclear deal ignored both.

autors: Robert Spencer 2016 256 lappuses

3.53

73 vērtējumi

🏛️ Iranian Politics 🕌 Islamic Theocracy 📜 Political Islam

In the Shadow of the Sword

autors: Tom Holland • 2012

Two centuries after Muhammad died, scholars wrote his life story. An empire needed a founding tale.

3.90

5000+

🏛️ Late Antiquity 🌙 Islamic Origins 📜 Revisionist History

In the Shadow of the Sword

Two centuries after Muhammad died, scholars wrote his life story. An empire needed a founding tale.

autors: Tom Holland 2012 526 lappuses

3.90

5000+ vērtējumi

🏛️ Late Antiquity 🌙 Islamic Origins 📜 Revisionist History

Treacherous Alliance

autors: Trita Parsi • 2007

Israel and Iran wage a cold war for regional dominance, not an ancient religious feud.

4.12

500+

🕌 Middle East Politics 🇺🇸 Us Foreign Policy 🌍 Geopolitical Realism

Treacherous Alliance

Israel and Iran wage a cold war for regional dominance, not an ancient religious feud.

autors: Trita Parsi 2007 384 lappuses

4.12

500+ vērtējumi

🕌 Middle East Politics 🇺🇸 Us Foreign Policy 🌍 Geopolitical Realism

Daughter of Persia

autors: Sattareh Farman Farmaian • 1992

Born to a prince in Persia, she builds a social work school, then revolution exiles her.

4.13

1000+

🏴 Revolution Memoir 🧳 Exile And Displacement 👩 Iranian Women'S Stories

Daughter of Persia

Born to a prince in Persia, she builds a social work school, then revolution exiles her.

autors: Sattareh Farman Farmaian 1992 432 lappuses

4.13

1000+ vērtējumi

🏴 Revolution Memoir 🧳 Exile And Displacement 👩 Iranian Women'S Stories

Iran's Grand Strategy

autors: Vali Nasr • 2025

Iran looks like a religious crusade. It operates as a nation-state with calculated grand strategy.

4.21

500+

🏛️ Iranian Foreign Policy 🗺️ Middle East Geopolitics ♟️ Grand Strategy

Iran's Grand Strategy

Iran looks like a religious crusade. It operates as a nation-state with calculated grand strategy.

autors: Vali Nasr 2025 408 lappuses

4.21

500+ vērtējumi

🏛️ Iranian Foreign Policy 🗺️ Middle East Geopolitics ♟️ Grand Strategy

Song of a Captive Bird

autors: Jasmin Darznik • 2018

A colonel's daughter in Tehran trades obedience for poetry and becomes Iran's most dangerous woman.

4.21

6000+

📖 Fictionalized Biography 🖋️ Poet Protagonist 🕌 Mid-Century Iran

Song of a Captive Bird

A colonel's daughter in Tehran trades obedience for poetry and becomes Iran's most dangerous woman.

autors: Jasmin Darznik 2018 401 lappuses

4.21

6000+ vērtējumi

📖 Fictionalized Biography 🖋️ Poet Protagonist 🕌 Mid-Century Iran

America and Iran

autors: John Ghazvinian • 2020

The 300-year relationship America and Iran forgot: a story that begins with admiration, not hatred.

4.36

1000+

🌍 Us-Iran Relations 📜 Diplomatic History 🛢️ Oil Politics

America and Iran

The 300-year relationship America and Iran forgot: a story that begins with admiration, not hatred.

autors: John Ghazvinian 2020 688 lappuses

4.36

1000+ vērtējumi

🌍 Us-Iran Relations 📜 Diplomatic History 🛢️ Oil Politics

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