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Sexuality and Modernity in Today’s Iran

By Lynne Rogers
 
Modernity, Sexuality, and Ideology in Iran
By Kamran Talattof
Syracuse University Press, 2011
 
When asked to publically support Feminism, French writer George Sands declined with the claim, “When women liberated their own beds, the rest would follow.” Iranian scholar Kamran Talattof would probably agree with Sands provided that the liberation was accompanied by an in
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The Only Diner in the Restaurant: A Travel Writer’s Perspective on the Arab Spring

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By Daniel Hugh-Jones

Several excellent articles and books have been written concerning the revolutions of the Arab Spring, most by participants, relatives of the fallen, political analysts or foreign correspondents. Tom Chesshyre makes no claim to any of these perspectives. Instead, he deals with the subject of life during and after revolution with the light touch and charm of a travel writer.

A Tourist in the Arab Spring
By Tom ChesshyreBradt Travel Guides, Ltd.
Bradt Travel Guides, Ltd.The Globe Pequot Press Inc., 2013
The Globe Pequot Press Inc., 2013

The American Mirage: Immigrant or “Un-American?”

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Frances Khirallah Noble
 
Carlos ben Carlos Rossman, a Puerto Rican Jew, is in for a surprise. When he lands in New York Harbor in 1950, he realizes that the American melting pot is more fable than fact. In many cases, diversity is likely to make one “Un-American” rather than American. Language, culture, religion, or even something as simple as a green baseball bat, when all of the other kids own plain pine bats, can result in ostracism.
 
In the House UN-American
By Benjamin Hollander
Clockroot Books, 2013
 
“In the House UN-American” is about tribes, how they differ and whether it’s possible to become a member of one you weren’t born into. Carlos ben Carlos Rossman, a Puerto Rican Jew (a double-pronged tribe!) lands in New York Harbor in 1950.

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