{"product_id":"9780307339744","title":"Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey from Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolution","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn intimate and honest chronicle of the everyday life of Iranian women over the past century\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A lesson about the value of personal freedom and what happens to a nation when its people are denied the right to direct their own destiny. This is a book Americans should read.” —\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fifteenth of thirty-six children, Sattareh Farman Farmaian was born in Iran in 1921 to a wealthy and powerful shazdeh, or prince, and spent a happy childhood in her father’s Tehran harem. Inspired and empowered by his ardent belief in education, she defied tradition by traveling alone at the age of twenty-three to the United States to study at the University of Southern California. Ten years later, she returned to Tehran and founded the first school of social work in Iran.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntertwined with Sattareh’s personal story is her unique perspective on the Iranian political and social upheaval that have rocked Iran throughout the twentieth century, from the 1953 American-backed coup that toppled democratic premier Mossadegh to the brutal regime of the Shah and Ayatollah Khomeini’s fanatic and anti-Western Islamic Republic. In 1979, after two decades of tirelessly serving Iran’s neediest, Sattareh was arrested as a counterrevolutionary and branded an imperialist by Ayatollah Khomeini’s radical students.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaughter of Persia\u003c\/i\u003e is the remarkable story of a woman and a nation in the grip of profound change.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Crown\/Archetype","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47009870676208,"sku":"9780307339744","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780307339744_p0.jpg?v=1764097008","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780307339744","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}