Rage Against the Veil: The Courageous Life and Death of an Islamic Dissident is a book by Parvin Darabi

Parvin Darabi

Dr. Parvin Darabi Tehran is an Iranian born American activist, writer and an internationally recognized defender of women’s rights.-Background:...

, an Iranian

Iranian peoples

The Iranian peoples are an Indo-European ethnic-linguistic group, consisting of the speakers of Iranian languages, a major branch of the Indo-European language family, as such forming a branch of Indo-European-speaking peoples...

 critic of Islam

Islam

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. The book is about Parvin's sister, Dr. Homa Darabi, who on February 21, 1994 committed suicide by immolation in a city square in Tehran, Iran to protest the "slavelike" treatment of women in Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

. The book details Dr. Darabi's life leading up to this moment, addressing women's rights in Iran during the monarchy

Pahlavi dynasty

The Pahlavi dynasty consisted of two Iranian/Persian monarchs, father and son Reza Shah Pahlavi and Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi The Pahlavi dynasty consisted of two Iranian/Persian monarchs, father and son Reza Shah Pahlavi (reg. 1925–1941) and Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi The Pahlavi dynasty ...

 and after the Islamic Revolution.

External links

• ‘Rage’ tells story of personal struggle in Iran - book review by Nancy Peek Ives from the Reno Gazette-Journal
  Reno Gazette-Journal
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