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Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope, Shirin Ebadi

So I have been reading Iran Awakening on and off ever since the Iranian election took over the news.  This has been quite a while.  I wanted to read it because I felt like I didn’t know enough about Iran and the United States, and the revolution and everything.  I thought it was fascinating, how she told about the changes in political power throughout her life.  She talks about helping in the revolution, and how afterwards she was asked to wear a headscarf, how people told her Just wait!  We want to deal with women’s rights but there are so…

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