Iran Memoir

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    • My Life and Captivity in Iran
    • By: Roxana Saberi
    • Narrated by: Roxana Saberi
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • On the morning of January 31, 2009, Roxana Saberi, a brilliant and fearless Iranian American journalist was dragged from her home by four men and secretly arrested....

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    • A Girl in Revolutionary Iran
    • By: Jacqueline Saper
    • Narrated by: Vaneh Assadourian
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 338 ratings
    • In a deeply intimate and personal story, Jacqueline Saper recounts her privileged childhood in prerevolutionary Iran and how she gradually became aware of the paradoxes in her life and community - primarily the disparate religions and cultures....

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    • The American Spy Who Vanished in Iran
    • By: Barry Meier
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • In late 2013, Americans were shocked to learn that a former FBI agent turned private investigator who disappeared in Iran in 2007 was there on a mission for the CIA....

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    • Soleimani, the US, and Iran’s Global Ambitions
    • By: Arash Azizi
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
    • Until his assassination by US drone strike in January 2020, commander Qassem Soleimani was one of the most powerful men in Iran and the military spearhead for Iranian foreign policy, enacting the wishes of the country's Supreme Leader in the region....

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    • My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran
    • By: Masih Alinejad
    • Narrated by: Linda Henning
    • Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 211 ratings
    • An extraordinary memoir from an Iranian journalist in exile about leaving her country, challenging tradition, and sparking an Online movement against the compulsory hijab....

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    • The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville
    • By: Reza Aslan
    • Narrated by: Reza Aslan
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • The #1 New York Times best-selling author of Zealot recounts the spellbinding tale of an unrecognized American martyr for democracy....

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    • Nasir al-Din Shah and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896
    • By: Abbas Amanat
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 21 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • In this book-the first in English about Nasir al-Din Shah, Abbas Amanat gives us both a biography of the man and an analysis of the institution of monarchy in modern Iran....

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    • A Remarkable True Story of Hope and Triumph amid the Horror of Tehran's Brutal Evin Prison
    • By: Maryam Rostampour, Marziyeh Amirizadeh, John Perry
    • Narrated by: Patty Fogarty
    • Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 497 ratings
    • In Captive in Iran, Maryam and Marziyeh recount their 259 days in Evin. It’s an amazing story of unyielding faith - when denying God would have meant freedom....

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    • Born In Iran, Bred Backstage
    • By: Roxana Shirazi
    • Narrated by: Roxana Shirazi
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Raw, Unvarnished, provocative, and poetically written, "The Last Living Slut: Born in Iran, Bred Backstage" is the memoir of Roxana Shirazi, who was raised during Iran's revolution within a politically active family and sent to England by her family aged ten during the Iran/Iraq war.

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    • A Modern History
    • By: Abbas Amanat
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 41 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 272 ratings
    • This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventional sense but an ambitious exploration of the story of a nation. It offers a revealing look at how events, people, and institutions are shaped by currents that sometimes reach back hundreds of years....

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    • The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran
    • By: Andrew Scott Cooper
    • Narrated by: Assaf Cohen
    • Length: 22 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 08-02-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 219 ratings
    • An immersive, gripping account of the rise and fall of Iran's glamorous Pahlavi dynasty, written with the cooperation of the late shah's widow, Empress Farah....

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    • Empire of the Mind
    • By: Michael Axworthy
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 157 ratings
    • Although frequently vilified, Iran is a nation of great intellectual variety and depth, and one of the oldest continuing civilizations in the world....

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    • The Future of Democracy in Iran
    • By: Reza Pahlavi
    • Narrated by: Mark Ashby
    • Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Forced to become a normal citizen, the exiled son of the late Shah of Iran attempts to provide understanding and direction for his country and its people....

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    • Love, Sex, Death, and the Search for Truth in Tehran
    • By: Ramita Navai
    • Narrated by: Sylvia Lisle
    • Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • In today's Tehran, intrigues abound and survival depends on an intricate network of falsehoods: mullahs visit prostitutes, local mosques train barely pubescent boys in crowd-control tactics....

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    • A Memoir of Love and Food in Iran
    • By: Jennifer Klinec
    • Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
    • Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Jennifer Klinec is fearless. In her 30s she abandons her bland corporate job to launch a cooking school from her London apartment....

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    • A memoir of Iran, America, my struggle to freedom
    • By: Vahid Imani
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-24
    • Language: English
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    • "Like the Wind I Go" is a sweeping memoir about identity and independence, as a young man grapples with his burgeoning adulthood and an ancient ...

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    • A Journey to the Heart of Iran
    • By: Terence Ward
    • Narrated by: Gibson Frazier, Terence Ward - preface
    • Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • This "astonishing and deeply poignant" (The Washington Post) memoir of one man’s search for a beloved family friend explores the depth of Iranian culture and the sweep of its history, and transcends today’s news headlines to remind us of the humanity that connects us all....

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