Instructional Resources
Check out our Resources:
- The Complete Review
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjane_Satrapi
- Randomhouse Review
- Randomhouse High School Review
- Study Guide 1
- Article in Newsweek
- Suggested discussion topics on Persepolis
(Mary Strasma has placed a chapter from Political Islam and the Middle East in McWilliams and Piotrowski, The World Since 1945 (Boulder: Lynne Reiner Publishers), 2001 edition on Reserve in the Library. This publication provides useful background information that helps students appreciate and understand more fully various issues and aspects of Persepolis)
Check out these additional readings!
Iran
The Mantle of the Prophet - Roy Mottahedeh. Oneworld, 2000. Call number: BP192.7.I68 M67 2000
submitted by Dr. David Gordon.
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books – Azar Nafisi. Random House, 2003. Call number: PE64.N34 A3 2003
Iran Awakening: One Woman’s Journey to Reclaim Her Life and Country – Shirin Ibadi. Random House, 2007. [Note: the author is the winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize].
Call number: DS318.84.E33 I73 2007
submitted by Dr. David Gordon
Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran – Roya Hakkakiyan. Three Rivers Press, 2004.
Call number: E184.I5 H35 2004b
submitted by Dr. David Gordon
All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror – Stephen Kinzer. Wiley, 2003.
Call number: DS318 .K49 2003
submitted by Dr. David Gordon
Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran -- Azadeh Moaveni . Public Affairs, 2006.
Call number: E184.I5 M63 2006b
submitted by Dr. David Gordon
Hidden Iran: Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic – Ray Takeyh (Henry Holt, 2007)
Call number: DS315.825 .T355 2007
submitted by Dr. David Gordon
Iranian Americans
Funny in Farsi : a memoir of growing up Iranian in America - Firoozeh Dumas. Villard Books, 2002.
Islam
Islam: a very short introduction - Malise Ruthven. Oxford University Press, 2000. Call number: BP161.2 .R86 2000
Why I am a Muslim: an American odyssey – Asma Gull Hasan. Element, 2005. Call number: BP67.U6 H3 2005
Graphic novels
Watchmen - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. DC Comics, 2005.
Call number: PN6737.M66 W38 2005b
V for Vendetta - Alan Moore
From Hell - Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell
Stardust - Neil Gaiman
submitted by Heather Hunt, class of '09
300 - Frank Miller and Lynn Varley
submitted by Heather McClung (Library staff)