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A cautionary tale for us all

The Lion Women of Tehran: A Novel by Marjan Kamali

August 28, 2025 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

Cbr17bingo Culture (would also fit diaspora) Perhaps you have seen this meme recently — a row of eight women wearing western fashions in the 1970s in Iran. These women were members of Parliament, but by the end of the decade, revolution forced Iranian women out of public life and back into traditional garb, covered from head to toe, and subject to punishment for exercising their rights. I’m old enough to remember when the Shah went into exile and the Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Iran to […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr17, cbr17bingo, ElCicco, Fiction, Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran

ElCicco's CBR17 Review No:45 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr17, cbr17bingo, ElCicco, Fiction, Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran ·
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Iranian immigrant experience, part 2

The Stationery Shop: Novel by Marjan Kamali

October 16, 2019 by ElCicco 1 Comment

My last review was The Saffron Kitchen, a novel set in modern London and in Iran in the 1950s and ‘60s, a novel about interrupted love and political upheaval. The Stationery Shop is a similar type of novel, set in 1953 Tehran and the modern US and also featuring interrupted love and political upheaval. While The Saffron Kitchen alludes to political developments in Iran, its main focus is on the trauma these events have caused its main character and her relationship with the love interest […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr11, ElCicco, Fiction, Marjan Kamali, Redwomen, The Stationery Shop

ElCicco's CBR11 Review No:55 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr11, ElCicco, Fiction, Marjan Kamali, Redwomen, The Stationery Shop ·
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