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Arash Azizi

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I write and flaneur. I live in New York.

نویسنده، مترجم، فلانور و پژوهشگر تاریخ. مقیم نیویورک.

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	جسارت امید: تاملاتی در باب بازیابی رویای آمریکایی by Barack Obama (Goodreads Author), Arash Azizi (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.84 avg rating — 170,802 ratings — published 2006 — 143 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	خدایی نیست جز خدای یکتا by Reza Aslan, Arash Azizi (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.12 avg rating — 29,260 ratings — published 2005 — 68 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	مارکس: قدم اول by Rius, Arash Azizi (Goodreads Author) 3.88 avg rating — 3,055 ratings — published 1976 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the U.S., and Iran's Global Ambitions 3.59 avg rating — 438 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom 4.04 avg rating — 314 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	هیچ‌کس کامل نیست: زندگینامه‌ی شخصی بیلی وایلدر by Charlotte Chandler, Arash Azizi (Goodreads Author) (-Translator) 3.97 avg rating — 159 ratings — published 2002 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	عصر وایکینگ by David Schaffer, Arash Azizi (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.86 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	مسابقه‌ی فضایی by Nathan Aaseng, Arash Azizi (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.87 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	دولت و فرودستان: فراز و فرود تجدد آمرانه در ترکیه و ایران by Touraj Atabaki (Author and Editor), Arash Azizi (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.92 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	جنگ کریمه by Deborah Bachrach, Arash Azizi (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.76 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Sex and Rage

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In the Lion's Shadow: The Iranian Schindler and his Homeland in the Second World War

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The Damascus Affair: 'Ritual Murder', Politics, and the Jews in 1840

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“When Michel Foucault, the celebrated French philosopher, wrote about his admiration for Khomeini and the movement in Iran, an Iranian woman named Atoussa H. called him out in a public letter. ‘Everywhere outside Iran, Islam serves as a cover for feudal or pseudo-revolutionary oppression,’ she wrote. Foucault suggested she failed to approach Islam with even ‘a minimum of intelligence’. Meanwhile his ‘intelligence’ extended to arguing that by ‘Islamic government’ no one possibly meant ‘a political regime in which the clerics would have a role of supervision or control’.”
― Arash Azizi, What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom

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“Goodbye," said the fox. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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“Never pass up a chance to have sex or appear on television.”
― Gore Vidal

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“If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.”
― Albert Einstein

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