From Miniskirt to Hijab by Jacqueline Saper - 9781640121171

From Miniskirt to HijabA Girl in Revolutionary Iran\nAuthor(s): Jacqueline Saper\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Potomac Books Inc, United States\nImprint: Potomac Books Inc\nISBN-13: 9781640121171, 978-1640121171\nSynopsis\n2020 Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year Award in Traditional Nonfiction\n 2021 Finalist in the Eric Hoffer Awards\n\n Jacqueline Saper, named after JacquelineKennedy, 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 gradually became aware of the paradoxes in her life and community-primarily the disparate religions and cultures.\n\n In 1979 under the Ayatollah regime, Iran became increasingly unfamiliar and hostile to Saper. Seemingly overnight she went from li.