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From Palace to Prison


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Éditeur : I.B.Tauris Date & Lieu : 1994, London & New York
Préface : Pages : 288
Traduction : ISBN : 1-85043-704-1
Langue : AnglaisFormat : 140x215 mm
Code FIKP : Liv. Eng. Nar. Fro. N° 3576Thème : Mémoire

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From Palace to Prison

From Palace to Prison

Ehsan Naraghi

I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.

“On September 28, 1978, I was summoned to the Saadabad Palace for the first of eight audiences with the Shah spread over the last hundred days of his reign. During these meetings the monarch, anxious to understand the growing revolutionary crisis in Iran and if possible to find a way out, questioned me closely about my views of the situation. ...”
So begins Ehsan Naraghi’s unusual and illuminating account of the Iranian revolution of 1979. Far more than an insider’s memoir of the Shah’s downfall and the rise of the Islamic Republic, it is also a unique behind-the-scenes view of Iran’s tempestuous politics and society.
In the first half of the book, Naraghi, a prominent Iranian sociologist, engagingly recounts his long conversations with the Shah in the weeks before the revolution. Here is the Shah at bay, a man overtaken by events and unbelievably ignorant of the causes of the popular agitation against him. Naraghi provides an unparalleled picture of the revolutionary events as seen through the eyes of those at the very center of power.
In the second half of the book the author recalls his thirty-three-month experience in prison—the first testimony to come from a survivor of the Islamic Republic’s jails. In a rich, intensely human portrait of his fellow prisoners and his jailors, Naraghi powerfully reconstructs his prison world as a microcosm of the political earthquake that engulfed Iran.


Ehsan Naraghi founded Tehran University’s respected Institute of Social Studies and Research in the late 1950s, later moved to UNESCO, and returned to Iran in 1975 to become director of the Institute of Research and Planning in Science and Higher Education. He now lives in Paris where he works as an adviser to UNESCO.


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Ehsan Naraghi

From Palace to Prison

I. B. Tauris

I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
From Palace to Prison
Ehsan Naraghi
Translated from the French
by Nilou Mobasser

I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd
Publishers
London - New York

Published in 1994 by
I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd
45 Bloomsbury Square
London WCiA 2HY

Copyright © 1994 by Ivan R. Dee, Inc.

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book,
or any part thereof, must not be reproduced in any form
without permission in writing from the publisher.

A full CIP record for this book is available from the British Library.
A full CIP record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

ISBN 1-85043-704-1

In memory of my mother,
to my wife, and, through them,
to all the wives and mothers of prisoners
wherever they may be found

Jacket Design by Robert McCamant
Jacket Photograph from AMH




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