Resources

A Selected List of Relevant LRC Resources and Websites

Reference Items – Books and Database Materials

• Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy. REFERENCE ONLINE. Gale Virtual Reference Library database.
• Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa. REFERENCE ONLINE. Gale Virtual Reference Library database.
• Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion. REF BL 65 P7 E53 2007
• Encyclopedia of Sociology. REFERENCE ONLINE. Gale Virtual Reference Library database.
• Encyclopedia of World History. REFERENCE ONLINE. Credo Reference database.
• Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia. REFERENCE ONLINE. Ebsco Host database.
• Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America. REFERENCE ONLINE. Gale Virtual Reference Library database.
• International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. REFERENCE ONLINE. Gale Virtual Reference Library database.
• Iran. REFERENCE ONLINE. Current Issues: Reference Shelf Plus database.
• Iran’s Diverse Peoples: A Reference Sourcebook. REFERENCE ONLINE. Credo Reference database.
• The Islamic World, Past and Present. REF DS 35.3 I86 2004.
• Pop Culture Arab World! Media, Arts and Lifestyle. REFERENCE ONLINE. Credo Reference database.
• The Qur’an: Translation [7th U.S. Edition, 2003]. REFERENCE ONLINE. Credo Reference database.
• Terrorism Reference Library. REFERENCE ONLINE. Gale Virtual Reference Library.
• World of Sociology, Gale. REFERENCE ONLINE. Credo Reference database.
• Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices. REF BL 80.3 W67 2006.

Circulating Books

• Abrahamian, Ervand. A History of Modern Iran. DS 316.3 A27 2008.
• Agah, Azadeh, et al. We Lived to Tell: Political Prison Memoirs of Iranian Women. DS 318.839 A383 2007.
• Al Qaeda in Its Own Words. HV 6431 A4613 2008.
• Daniel, Elton L. Culture and Customs of Iran. DS 266 .D265 2006.
• Daniel, Elton L. The History of Iran. DS 272 .D36 2000.
• Dumas, Firoozeh. Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America. HN 766 .A8 I85 2004.
• Edwards, A. Cecil. A Persian Caravan. PR 6009 D7 P4 1970.
• Falk, Avner. Islamic Terror: Conscious and Unconscious Motives. RC 569.5 T47 F35 2008.
• Felton, John. The Contemporary Middle East: A Documentary History. DS 42 .F44 2008.
• Hunter, Shireen. Iran and the World: Continuity in a Revolutionary Decade. DS 318 .83 H86 1990.
• Islamic Activism: A Social Movement Theory Approach. HN 766 .A8 I85 2004.
• The Middle East. DS 53.1 .M484 2005.
• Keddie, Nikki R. Modern Iran: Roots and Results of Revolution. DS 316.3 .K42 2003.
• Keddie, Nikki R. Roots of Revolution: An Interpretive History of Modern Iran. DS 316.3 .K42 [1981].
• Kinzer, Stephen. All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror. DS 318 .K49 2008.
• The Koran. BP 109 P5 1992.
• Kousha, Mahnaz. Voices from Iran: The Changing Lives of Iranian Women. HQ 1735.2 K68 2002.
• Mahmoody, Betty. Not Without My Daughter: a True Story. HQ 1413 M33 M3 1987.
• Nafisi, Azar. Reading Lolita in Tehran. PE 64 N34 A3 2003.
• Sabin, Roger. Comics, Comix & Graphic Novels: A History of Comic Art. PN 6725 S33 1996.
• Satrapi, Marjane. Chicken with Plums. ML 419 K495 S313 2006.
• Satrapi, Marjane. Embroideries. PN 6747 S245 E42 2005.
• Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis. PN 6747 S245 P4713 2003.
• Sciolino, Elaine. Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran. DS 318.8 .S35 2000.
• Schmidt, Andy. The Insider’s Guide to Creating Comics and Graphic Novels. PN 6710 S34 2009.
• Wright, Robin B. The Last Great Revolution. DS 318.8 W75 2001.

CDs and DVDs

• Beyond the Veil: Are Iranian Women Rebelling? DVD 180 [2003].
• Cairo to Casablanca: an Arabic Musical Odyssey. CD 1184-WORLD [1998].
• Road to 9/11. DVD 631 [2005].
• Persepolis. DVD 943 [2008].
• Women and Islam. DVD 176 [1993].

Database Articles

• Amuzegar, Jahangir. "Iranian Political Reform Is Likely." Opposing Viewpoints: Iran. Ed. Laura K. Egendorf. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2006. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center database.
• Arnold, Andrew D. "Comix Poetics." World Literature Today 81.2 (March-April 2007): p12-15. Academic OneFile database.
• Azadarmaki, Taghi and Bahar, Mehri. Families in Iran: Changes, Challenges and Future. Journal of Comparative Family Studies 37.4 (Autumn 2006): p589 (20). Academic Onefile database.
• Basu, Lopamudra. Crossing Cultures/ Crossing Genres: The Re-invention of the Graphic Memoir in Persepolis and Persepolis 2. Nebula 4.3 (September 2007): p1-19. Academic Onefile database.
• Costantino, Manuela. Marji: Popular Commix Heroine Breathing Life into the Writing of History. Canadian Review of American Studies 38.3 (2008): p429-447. Academic Search Premier database.
• Davies, Jon. A Polite Way of Being Desperate: An Interview with Marjane Satrapi. CineAction 75 (Winter 2008): p58-61. Academic OneFile database.
• Davis, Ricio G. A Graphic Self: Comics as Autobiography in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis. Prose Studies 27.3 (December 2005): p264-279. Literary Reference Center database.
• Del Guidice, Marguerite. Persia – Ancient Soul of Iran: A Glorious Past Inspires a Conflicted Nation. National Geographic 214.2 (August 2008): p34. Academic Onefile database.
• Introduction to Iran: Opposing Viewpoints. Opposing Viewpoints: Iran. Ed. Laura K. Egendorf. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2006. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center database.
• Keddie, Nikki. Iranian Women’s Status and Struggles Since 1979. Journal of International Affairs 60.2 (Spring-Summer 2007): p17. Academic OneFile database.
• Malek, Amy. Memoir as Iranian Exile Cultural Production: A Case Study of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis Series. Iranian Studies 39.3 (September 2006): 353-380. Academic Search Premier database.
• Naghibi, Nima, et al. Estranging the Familiar: “East” and “West” in Satrapi’s Persepolis. English Studies in Canada 31.2-3 (June/September 2005): 223-248. Literary Reference Center database.
• Notkin, Deborah. Growing Up Graphic. Women’s Review of Books 20, no. 9 (June 2003): p8. Contemporary Literary Criticism Select database.
• Roote, Robert. Interview with Marjane Satrapi. Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction 9 issue 2 (Fall 2007): p147-157. Literary Reference Center database.
• Tario, Emma. Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis: A Satorial Review. Fashion Theory 11.2/3 (June/September 2007): p347-356. Academic Search Premier database.
• Tsadik, Daniel, et al. Iranian Political Reform Is Faltering. Opposing Viewpoints: Iran. Ed. Laura K. Egendorf. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2006. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center database.

Websites – Persepolis; Iran – Government, Culture and History

• Marjane Satrapi’s author/emllustrator website through Steven Barclay Agency: www.barclayagency.com/satrapi.html.
• Unwrapping Iran. www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100204572. A multi-part series produced by National Public Radio (NPR) in 2009. Available in downloadable mp3 files and full text format.
• Random House, Pantheon Graphic Novels’ website for Marjane Satrapi: http://www.randomhouse.com/pantheon/graphicnovels/satrapi.html.
• Persepolis [film] website: http://www.sonyclassics.com/persepolis/.
• BBC News Country Profile: Iran. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/country_profiles/790877.stm.
• BBC Timeline: Iran. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/country_profiles/806268.stm .
• Columbia University Libraries Middle East and Islamic Studies: Iran. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/emndiv/mideast/cuvlm/emran.html.
• Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs Middle East Institute. http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/regional/mei/.
• Council on Foreign Relations: Iran. http://www.cfr.org/region/404/emran.html.
• The Oriental Institute Photographic Archives (University of Chicago): Persepolis and Ancient Persia. http://oi.uchicago.edu/museum/collections/pa/persepolis/.
• U.S. Department of State – Bureau of Public Affairs/ Background Note: Iran. http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5314.htm.
• U.S. Department of State – Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor/ 2007 Country Reports: Iran. http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2007/100595.htm.