Iran +100: Stories from a Century After the Coup
Fereshteh Ahmadi, Leila Elder, Peter Adrian Behravesh
Paperback, 192 pages
9781912697960
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Iran +100 poses a simple question to 10 Iranian authors: What might Iran look like in the year 2053, a century after the coup that overthrew the democratically-elected prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, strengthened the US-aligned Shah and led, through revolt and counter-revolt, to the current authoritarian regime? After decades of international isolation, and internal political struggle, not least the āWoman, Life, Freedomā movement, will progressive aspirations finally have borne fruit? Or will the future merely offer new, tech-enabled strategies for maintaining the status quo?
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From the sinking of Tehran into a great, tourist-attracting āPitā, to inter-dimensional voids revealing parallel universes, these stories explore contemporary concerns, extrapolated into strange futures. From the upturning of gender-power structures to the scarcity of energy resources in a sun-ravaged future, from magic realism to retro-futurism, they demonstrate how old struggles can always find new forms of expression.
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Iran +100: Stories from a Century After the Coup
Iran +100: Stories from a Century After the Coup
Fereshteh Ahmadi, Leila Elder, Peter Adrian Behravesh
Paperback, 192 pages
9781912697960
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Iran +100 poses a simple question to 10 Iranian authors: What might Iran look like in the year 2053, a century after the coup that overthrew the democratically-elected prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, strengthened the US-aligned Shah and led, through revolt and counter-revolt, to the current authoritarian regime? After decades of international isolation, and internal political struggle, not least the āWoman, Life, Freedomā movement, will progressive aspirations finally have borne fruit? Or will the future merely offer new, tech-enabled strategies for maintaining the status quo?
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From the sinking of Tehran into a great, tourist-attracting āPitā, to inter-dimensional voids revealing parallel universes, these stories explore contemporary concerns, extrapolated into strange futures. From the upturning of gender-power structures to the scarcity of energy resources in a sun-ravaged future, from magic realism to retro-futurism, they demonstrate how old struggles can always find new forms of expression.
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Fereshteh Ahmadi, Leila Elder, Peter Adrian Behravesh
Paperback, 192 pages
9781912697960
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Iran +100 poses a simple question to 10 Iranian authors: What might Iran look like in the year 2053, a century after the coup that overthrew the democratically-elected prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, strengthened the US-aligned Shah and led, through revolt and counter-revolt, to the current authoritarian regime? After decades of international isolation, and internal political struggle, not least the āWoman, Life, Freedomā movement, will progressive aspirations finally have borne fruit? Or will the future merely offer new, tech-enabled strategies for maintaining the status quo?
Ā
From the sinking of Tehran into a great, tourist-attracting āPitā, to inter-dimensional voids revealing parallel universes, these stories explore contemporary concerns, extrapolated into strange futures. From the upturning of gender-power structures to the scarcity of energy resources in a sun-ravaged future, from magic realism to retro-futurism, they demonstrate how old struggles can always find new forms of expression.
