In this short and very readable book Ryszard Kapuściński offers us lively, snapshot descriptions of scenes from the life and 37-year reign of the last King of Kings together with a dramaturgical perspective on the revolution that put an end …
Iran’s presidential election of January 25, 1980, which took place almost a year after the fall of the Shah in February 1979, and the insurrection in Tabriz that preceded the election by a few weeks may well come to be …
“Not the ‘republic of Iran,’ nor the `democratic republic of Iran,’ nor the ‘democratic Islamic republic of Iran,’ just the `Islamic Republic of Iran,’ the Ayatollah Khomeini told the nation imperiously before the referendum of March 1979. On behalf of …
