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I'm Writing You from Tehran

A Granddaughter's Search for Her Family's Past and Their Country's Future

By: Delphine Minoui

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I'm Writing You from Tehran

A Granddaughter's Search for Her Family's Past and Their Country's Future

By: Delphine Minoui

A lucid, moving view into an often obscured part of our world, exploring notions of democracy, identity, and the resilience of the human spirit In the wake of losing her beloved grandfather, Delphine Minoui decided to visit Iran for the first time since the revolution. It was 1998. She was twenty-two and a freshly minted journalist. She would stay for ten years. Quickly absorbed into the everyday life of the city, Minoui attends secret dance parties that are raided by the morality police and dines in the home of a young couple active in the Basij—the fearsome militia. She befriends veteran journalists battling government censorship, imprisoned student poets, and her own grandmother (a woman who is discovering the world of international affairs through her contraband satellite TV). And so it is all the more crushing when the political situation falters. Minoui joins street protests teeming with students hungry for change and is interrogated by the secret police; she sees a mirrored rise in the love of country—the yearning patriotism of the left, the militant nationalism of the right. Friends disappear; others may be tracking her movements. She finds love, loses her press credentials, marries, and is separated from her husband by erupting global conflict. Through it all, her love for Iran and its people deepens. In her family’s past she discovers a mission that will shape her entire future. Framed as a letter to her grandfather and filled with disarming characters in momentous times, I’m Writing You from Tehran is a remarkable blend of global history, family memoir, and the making of a reporter, told by someone both insider and outsider—a child of the diaspora who is a world-class political journalist.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374716579

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I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced

A Memoir

By: Nujood Ali,Delphine Minoui

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I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced

A Memoir

By: Nujood Ali,Delphine Minoui

“I’m a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no.” Nujood Ali's childhood came to an abrupt end in 2008 when her father arranged for her to be married to a man three times her age. With harrowing directness, Nujood tells of abuse at her husband's hands and of her daring escape. With the help of local advocates and the press, Nujood obtained her freedom—an extraordinary achievement in Yemen, where almost half of all girls are married under the legal age. Nujood's courageous defiance of both Yemeni customs and her own family has inspired other young girls in the Middle East to challenge their marriages. Hers is an unforgettable story of tragedy, triumph, and courage.

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0307589676

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I'm Writing You from Tehran

A Granddaughter's Search for Her Family's Past and Their Country's Future

By: Delphine Minoui

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A Granddaughter's Search for Her Family's Past and Their Country's Future

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The Book Collectors

A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War

By: Delphine Minoui

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The Book Collectors

A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War

By: Delphine Minoui

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR "An urgent and compelling account of great bravery and passion." —Susan Orlean Award-winning journalist Delphine Minoui recounts the true story of a band of young rebels, a besieged Syrian town, and an underground library built from the rubble of war Reading is an act of resistance. Daraya is a town outside Damascus, the very spot where the Syrian Civil War began. Long a site of peaceful resistance to the Assad regimes, Daraya fell under siege in 2012. For four years, no one entered or left, and aid was blocked. Every single day, bombs fell on this place—a place of homes and families, schools and children, now emptied and broken into bits. And then a group searching for survivors stumbled upon a cache of books in the rubble. In a week, they had six thousand volumes; in a month, fifteen thousand. A sanctuary was born: a library where people could escape the blockade, a paper fortress to protect their humanity. The library offered a marvelous range of books—from Arabic poetry to American self-help, Shakespearean plays to stories of war in other times and places. The visitors shared photos and tales of their lives before the war, planned how to build a democracy, and tended the roots of their community despite shell-shocked soil. In the midst of the siege, the journalist Delphine Minoui tracked down one of the library’s founders, twenty-three-year-old Ahmad. Over text messages, WhatsApp, and Facebook, Minoui came to know the young men who gathered in the library, exchanged ideas, learned English, and imagined how to shape the future, even as bombs kept falling from above. By telling their stories, Minoui makes a far-off, complicated war immediate and reveals these young men to be everyday heroes as inspiring as the books they read. The Book Collectors is a testament to their bravery and a celebration of the power of words.

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Picador

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125080017X

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I Am Nujood, Age 10 And Divorced

By: Delphine Minoui,Nujood Ali

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I Am Nujood, Age 10 And Divorced

By: Delphine Minoui,Nujood Ali

The internationally bestselling true story of the remarkable ten-year-old Yemeni girl who dared to defy her country’s most archaic traditions by fighting for a divorce I’m a simple village girl whose family had to move to the capital, and I have always obeyed the orders of the men in my family. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today, I have decided to say no. Uplifting and impossible to put down, this is a true story of the ten-year old girl who won a divorce from the man she was forced to marry, courageously defying both Yemeni customs and her own family. Nujood’s childhood came to an abrupt end when her father arranged for her to be married to a man three times her age. With harrowing directness, Nujood tells of abuse at her husband’s hands, beginning with the very first night of her married life, and ending the day she slipped away during an errand. Instead of going to the market to buy bread, she took a taxi to the court building. That was the beginning of her odyssey. With the help of a woman lawyer, Chadha Nasser, NGO’s and the local press, Nujood finally obtained her freedom, an extraordinary achievement in Yemen, where there is a conspiracy of silence about the fact that almost half the girls are married under the legal age. Since her victory, Nujood has given other young girls the courage to stand up to their society’s customs. Written with childlike simplicity and penetrating honesty, I Am Nujood is at once shocking and inspiring, disturbing and redemptive.

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Random House Australia

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1742740421

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I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced

A Memoir

By: Nujood Ali,Delphine Minoui

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A Memoir

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Tripoliwood

By: Delphine Minoui

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Tripoliwood

By: Delphine Minoui

Pendant 42 ans, la Libye a vecu derriere un ecran noir et silencieux. De ce pays a cheval entre Orient et Afrique, on ne connait presque rien a part les discours fantasques de son guide dechu, Mouamar Kadhafi, autocrate aux allures d'Ubu roi. Soudain, le 15 fevrier dernier, la rue s'est eveillee.Alors que la plupart des media se pressent a l'Est du pays, Delphine Minoui fait partie des rares journalistes accredites par les autorites de Tripoli. Sous l' il permanent des cameras du pouvoir, ils sont confines a l'hotel Rixos, un cinq etoiles au c ur de la capitale. Leurs sorties sont limitees aux voyages organises. Le regime veut leur montrer "la" verite c'est-a-dire: "sa" verite.Ce voyage surrealiste, comique parfois si ce n'etait pas aussi une tragedie humaine, offre une vision inedite de la guerre en Libye. Ou sont passees les victimes de la repression ? Pourquoi les blesses ont-ils disparu des hopitaux ? Pourquoi les tombes des "martyrs" des frappes de l'OTAN sont-elles vides au cimetiere ? Les journalistes sont-ils en train de devenir des boucliers humains ? Qui faut-il croire dans ce huis-clos libyen qui va durer six semaines ?Dans une atmosphere d'espionnage qui tient plus de Graham Greene que du reportage de guerre, ce recit nous fait entrer dans l'envers du decor.

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Grasset & Fasquelle

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2246790875

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