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From Miniskirt to Hijab
- A Girl in Revolutionary Iran
- Narrated by: Vaneh Assadourian
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
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Jacqueline Saper, named after Jacqueline Kennedy, was born in Tehran to Iranian and British parents. At 18 she witnessed the civil unrest of the 1979 Iranian revolution and continued to live in the Islamic Republic during its most volatile times, including the Iran-Iraq War. In a deeply intimate and personal story, 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.
In 1979 under the Ayatollah regime, Iran became increasingly unfamiliar and hostile to Saper. Seemingly overnight she went from living a carefree life of wearing miniskirts and attending high school to listening to fanatic diatribes, forced to wear the hijab, and hiding in the basement as Iraqi bombs fell over the city. She eventually fled to the United States in 1987 with her husband and children after, in part, witnessing her six-year-old daughter’s indoctrination into radical Islamic politics at school. At the heart of Saper’s story is a harrowing and instructive tale of how extremist ideologies seized a Westernized, affluent country and transformed it into a fundamentalist Islamic society.
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- Mrs F Higginson
- 13-02-23
Alarming
Jacqueline Saper clearly articulates a situation that is ongoing in Iran. By giving a personal account of living through 3 eras in just a few years she has thrown insight that merely knowing about the situation has never delivered. I highly recommend
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- Anonymous User
- 17-10-22
can relate
I can relate to all she described in this book. During those days of protestation against the mollahs's regime, I can say that all women, girls born in the 90s and the millennium have had bad experience with the morality police, with the hateful speeches of the sepah and millions are trying to flee the country. within those 40 years people were arrested, tortured and executed nothing.
the performance was good but I couldn't understand why switching to iranian accent 😕?
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- C. Thompson
- 25-03-22
What an amazing story!
Having independently driven to Iran twice, I wasn’t at all disappointed with this fascinating story. Really well written and left me wanting to hear more. (Audible) Jacqueline set the scene with her Jewish family in Tehran during the era of the Shah, then her teenage years and the political changes of the Islamic Revolution, and her marriage and eventual exodus from Iran to settle in America. For anyone with an interest in Iranian modern history and how it affected every day life, this book will not disappoint. I hope Jacqueline writes another book. 5 stars
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- c dolan
- 23-02-23
Enlightening
A very grounded account of a truly fascinating period in the history of Iran. A book not about why it happened,but an emotional account of how it happened. It has really sparked my interest to read more about this topic. A very easy listen about a very tough time
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- Lizzy Rain
- 06-08-22
A wonderful read ....
Thank you Jacqueline for giving an English woman of your own generation an insight into Iranian life. How fortunate am I have to have grown up in such freedom in comparison; as you experienced in Birmingham. To experience a parallel life through your eyes was an incredible read. I held my breath so many times throughout. I wished like crazy for your Father to get you out of there asap. I admired the stalwart attitude of your Mother (a little of the British stiff upper lip), always so elegant and loyal to your Father. My heart broke when you walked your daughter into school and it lifted on your granddaughter's first day. We all take such freedoms for granted. A life lived sometimes with fear, frustration and trepidation, but also with so much bravery, grace, fortitude and love.
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- Ann Huijing
- 24-01-23
Interesting and very moving
This book has given me so much more insight in the current uprising in Iran. Very glad to have read it
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-11-23
Beautiful story
Well written book sometimes the author goes into much details but overall enjoyable to listen to
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- S.A.M
- 07-04-22
Fascinating
This account has gone further than any thing I have heard or read in giving an understanding of the culture and life in the beautiful country of Iran. It also explains to a degree the psychology of the Muslim religion. I am very glad to have listened to it.
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- Lesley Fudge
- 06-01-23
Very interesting
This was an interesting story of the life in Iran during the revolution. It gives a deeper understanding of the life of non-Muslim family in Iran
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- Anneli
- 10-12-22
A very good book
I can recommend this book to get an insight in what happened in Iran over the last 50 years. What has been and where it is today. It’s a life story of a Jewish woman 1/2 westerner and 1/2 Iranian born in Tehran
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