Ali Vaez
Iran analyst; deputy director of the Middle East and North Africa Program at the International Crisis Group and adjunct professor at Georgetown University.
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Recommends Tomorrow Is Yesterday
It's called Tomorrow is Yesterday life death and pursuit of peace in Israel-Palestine by Hussein Agha and and Rob Malley. And and one thing I really appreciate about about this book is that um it helps you understand how in conflict situations like this there's plenty of blame to go around.
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Recommends The Mantle of the Prophet
The second book is The Mantle of the Prophet Religion and Politics in Iran by Roy Mottahedeh. Which also does something rare.
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Recommends Persians
So the first book I want to recommend is called The Persians The Age of the Great Kings by Lloyd Llewellyn Llewellyn Jones. And this is a really interesting book because most of the stories that have been written or histories that have been written about ancient Persia have been based on Greek sources. But but what what this author has done is that he's actually gone to the Persian sources.
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