In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran (Häftad)
avChristopher de Bellaigue
ISBN: 9780060935368 - UTGIVEN: 200601The history of Iran in the late twentieth century is a chronicle of religious fervor and violent change -- from the Islamic Revolution that ousted the Shah in favor of a rigid fundamentalist government to the bloody eight-year war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq. But what happened to the hostage-takers, [...]
Patriot of Persia: Muhammad Mossadegh and a Tragic Anglo-American Coup (Inbunden)
avChristopher de Bellaigue
ISBN: 9780061844706 - UTGIVEN: 201205On August 19, 1953, the American and British intelligence agencies launched a desperate coup in Iran against a cussed, bedridden seventy-two-year-old man. His name was Muhammad Mossadegh, and his crimes had been to flirt with communism and to nationalize his country's oil industry, which for forty y[...]
Patriot of Persia (Häftad)
avChristopher de Bellaigue
ISBN: 9780099540489 - UTGIVEN: 201302On 19 August 1953 the British and American intelligence agencies launched a desperate coup against a cussed, bedridden 72-year-old. His name was Muhammad Mossadegh, the Iranian prime minister. To Winston Churchill he was a lunatic, determined to humiliate Britain. To President Eisenhower he was deli[...]
Rebel Land: Unraveling the Riddle of History in a Turkish Town (Häftad)
avChristopher de Bellaigue
ISBN: 9780143118848 - UTGIVEN: 2011-03"A finely written, brave, and very personal book." -Orhan Pamuk
In 2001, Christopher de Bellaigue wrote a story for "The New York Review of Books," in which he briefly discussed the killing and deportation of half a million Armenians from Turkey in 1915. These massacres, he suggested, were best[...]
The Applied Theatre Reader (Storpocket)
avChristopher de Bellaigue
ISBN: 9780415428873 - UTGIVEN: 200808The Applied Theatre Reader is the first book to bring together new case studies of practice by leading practitioners and academics in the field and beyond, with classic source texts from writers such as Noam Chomsky, bell hooks, Mikhail Bakhtin, Augusto Boal, and Chantal Mouffe. This book divides th[...]
Rebel Land (Häftad)
avChristopher de Bellaigue
ISBN: 9780747596769 - UTGIVEN: 201004What is the meaning of love and death in a remote, forgotten, impossibly conflicted part of the world? In "Rebel Land" the acclaimed author and journalist Christopher de Bellaigue journeys to Turkey's inhospitable eastern provinces to find out. Immersing himself in the achingly beautiful district of[...]
Patriot of Persia (Inbunden)
avChristopher de Bellaigue
ISBN: 9781847921086 - UTGIVEN: 201202On 19 August 1953 the British and American intelligence agencies launched a desperate coup against a cussed, bedridden 72-year-old. His name was Muhammad Mossadegh and his crimes had been to flirt with Communism and nationalise his country's oil industry, for forty years in British hands. To Winston[...]
