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“jacqueline saper”

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  • From Miniskirt to Hijab

    A Girl in Revolutionary Iran

    by Jacqueline Saper ...
    Named a 2020 Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year Award in Traditional NonfictionFinalist for the 2021 Eric Hoffer AwardFinalist for the 2021 Feathered Quill AwardLonglisted for the 2020 Clara Johnson AwardJacqueline Saper, named after Jacqueline Kennedy, was born in Tehran to Iranian and British parents. At eighteen she witnessed the civil unrest of the 1979 I... ... Read more

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    From Miniskirt to Hijab

    A Girl in Revolutionary Iran

    by Jacqueline Saper ...
    Narrated by Vaneh Assadourian ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 46 min

    Jacqueline Saper, named after Jacqueline Kennedy, was born in Tehran to Iranian and British parents. At eighteen 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 ... Read more

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