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Iran Awakening by Shirin Ebadi
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Iran Awakening by Shirin Ebadi
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25 Questions

1. What does Ebadi call an experiment in hope"?"

2. When did Khomeini return to Iran?

3. When did the killings of intellectuals and writers get really, really bad?

4. Why did Saddam Hussein invade Iran?

5. What is dijeh?

6. What was Persepolis?

7. What day were the hostages released?

8. What happened for the first time in the history of the Islamic Republic on January 6, 1999?

9. When did writers and critics of the regime begin to die mysteriously?

10. When, in 1992, Iran allowed women to practice law again, what did Ebadi do?

11. What caused the Ayatollah Khomeini to accept a Security Council cease fire resolution?

12. When did he Shah flew Iran?

13. How does Ebadi describe the 1953 coup?

14. What event in 1971 horrified Ebadi and many Iranians?

15. When did the Ayatollah Khomeini die?

16. The horror of the Iran-Iraq war creates distrust of the US that persists to this day. Why?

17. What does depilatory mean?

18. What is sybaritism

19. When did SaddamHussein invade Iran?

20. Hat happened after WWII?

21. Was it unusual to hear Mullins criticize the government In The 1970s?

22. Which monarch ruled Iran from 1926-1941?

23. What did the Shah do in 1964?

24. What is a mullah?

25. How soon did Ebadi know that things had gone terribly wrong?