A moving story of the former Empress of Iran -- now in paperback. At the age of twenty-one, Farah Diba married the Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi. A loving marriage, the raising of four children, and a devotion to social and cultural causes marked her early years as queen, although there were already signs of grave national diversions on the horizon. Twenty years later the dream had turned into a nightmare: demonstrations and riots shook the country, and Farah and the Shah decided to leave in order to avoid bloodshed. With the hardcover publication of An Enduring Love, a New York Times bestseller (extended list) in 2004, Farah Diba, wife of the last emperor of Iran, broke her silence and told the wrenching story of her love for a man and his country. Her compelling memoir offers an intimate view of a time of upheaval, but stands above all as a powerful human document from one whose life was caught up in an epic and tragic national struggle.
À 38 ans, Farah Pahlavi Shahbanou d’Iran – « la petite Cendrillon » comme l’appelait il y a dix-sept ans, la presse occidentale – a fait bien du chemin. « Cendrillon était fille de roi » rappelle-t-elle à ceux qui ne savent pas leurs propres contes de fées... Aujourd’hui et pour la première fois, l’impératrice Farah raconte dans son livre, son enfance à Téhéran, son adolescence et son mariage, les cérémonies somptueuses du couronnement, l’éducation de ses enfants, ses craintes et ses joies, ses amis et ses voyages, ses responsabilités de plus en plus grandes, tout ce qui fait sa vie. Son ton est empreint de franchise et de discrétion. Lorsque, parfois, elle cite des poèmes d’Hafez ou de Saadi, on se croirait devant une écolière timide, sa voix tremble. Si un vers venait à s’effacer de sa mémoire, elle dirait : « Excusez-moi, je vais chercher le livre. » Quelques instants seule, j’ai pensé à sa timidité et à son mystère, à son destin, à ses vocations, à ce qu’elle dit de son besoin de distribuer le bonheur, de ses doutes, de son souci d’assurer la dignité de tous et d’éduquer les plus démunis, à ce mélange de confiance et d’inquiétude devant l’avenir... Ce livre reflète les multiples facettes, les multiples visages d’un seul personnage et sa rencontre avec l’histoire. Dans ce jeu de miroir, une image de la Shahbanou qui reçoit l’assentiment de tous : Farah aux mille et une bonnes volontés. Silvia Badesco
A moving story of the former Empress of Iran -- now in paperback. At the age of twenty-one, Farah Diba married the Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi. A loving marriage, the raising of four children, and a devotion to social and cultural causes marked her early years as queen, although there were already signs of grave national diversions on the horizon. Twenty years later the dream had turned into a nightmare: demonstrations and riots shook the country, and Farah and the Shah decided to leave in order to avoid bloodshed. With the hardcover publication of An Enduring Love, a New York Times bestseller (extended list) in 2004, Farah Diba, wife of the last emperor of Iran, broke her silence and told the wrenching story of her love for a man and his country. Her compelling memoir offers an intimate view of a time of upheaval, but stands above all as a powerful human document from one whose life was caught up in an epic and tragic national struggle.
This vivid portrayal of political and social behavior in the Arab states offers new perspectives to the student and scholar of the Middle East. It also illustrates the effectiveness of survey research as an analytical tool for investigating political, social, and economic problems in Arab societies. The only book of its kind—dealing in a comprehensive and interdisciplinary fashion with the political and social behavior of individuals in the Arab world—it fills a gap in the materials available for courses on the Middle East.
This book offers an intellectual history of one of the leading Shi’i thinkers and religious leaders of the 20th-century in Lebanon, Shaykh Muhammad Mahdi Shams al-Din. The author examines his role as the foremost figure of Shi’i intellectual life, a key associate of Musa al-Sadr, and president of the Islamic Shi‘i Supreme Council of Lebanon, having maintained the independence of this institution until his death from the domination of Shi‘i political parties. The core of the book consists of three interrelated main themes that constitute the major threads of Shams al-Din’s intellectual legacy: a discussion of Islamic government involving a critique of Khomeini’s theory of wilāyat al-faqīh, the role of Islam within civil government, and the necessity for political integration of the Shi‘a in their Arab nation-states to protect them from policies that raise doubts over their political allegiance to their respective countries. The project will appeal to scholars, students, academics, and researchers in Middle Eastern politics and history.
Now that the oil era has come to a very unceremonious end in the Arab Mashreq, it is time for a sober and somber assessment-a selfcriticism- of the Arab body politic. Indeed, this effort at self-criticism is already underway, led by the many symposiums sponsored by the Center for Arab Unity Studies and the Arab Intellectual Forum.
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