{"product_id":"book-of-queens-the-true-story-of-the-middle-eastern-horsewomen-who-fought-the-war-on-terror-hardcover","title":"Book of Queens: The True Story of the Middle Eastern Horsewomen Who Fought the War on Terror - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePardis Mahdavi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe untold story of generations of Middle Eastern freedom fighters--horsewomen who safeguarded an ancient breed of Caspian horse--and their efforts to defend their homelands from the Taliban and others seeking to destroy them.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A breathtaking book that revisits nearly one hundred years of Iranian history, highlighting the power and beauty of women who refuse to be subdued.\" ―Alison Hawthorne Deming, author of \u003ci\u003eA Woven World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBook of Queens\u003c\/i\u003e reaches back centuries to the Persian Empire and a woman disguised as a man, facing an invading army, protected only by light armor and the stallion she sat astride. Mahdavi draws a thread from past to present: from her fearless Iranian grandmother, who guided survivors of domestic violence to independent mountain colonies in Afghanistan where the women, led by a general named Mina, became their country's first line of defense from marauding warlords. To the female warriors who helped train and breed the horses used by US Green Berets when they touched down in October 2001, with a mission but insufficient intelligence on the ground--women whose contributions were then forgotten. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Pardis Mahdavi chases the legacy of Caspian horses and the women whose lives are saved by them, drawing on decades of research, newly-discovered diaries, and exclusive military sources. Among those intersecting stories is that of American Louise Firouz, who helped bring the breed back from the brink of extinction, connecting Virginia traders to British royals to the son of the Shah. Firouz's life is forever changed when she meets Mahdavi's own family, who run an unusual smuggling operation in addition to raising horses in a wild bid for freedom. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBook of Queens\u003c\/i\u003e is an epic tale of hidden women whose communal knowledge was instrumental in saving an animal as ancient as civilization, and who were the genesis of their own liberation.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePardis Mahdavi, PhD \u003c\/b\u003eis President of the University of La Verne. She is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has been a fellow at the Social Sciences Research Council, the American Council on Learned Societies, Google Ideas, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Dr. Mahdavi's career began as a journalist, writing for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Magazine. \u003c\/i\u003eShe continues to write for \u003ci\u003eForeign Affairs, Huffington Post, The Conversation, \u003c\/i\u003eas well as \u003ci\u003eMs. Magazine. \u003c\/i\u003eHer work has been featured in her academic books as well as numerous public opinion and policy pieces. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Dr. Mahdavi has published four single authored books and one edited volume in addition to numerous journal and news articles. She is the author of \u003ci\u003ePassionate Uprisings: Iran's Sexual Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as multiple essays on the significance of sexual politics in the Arab Spring and Green Movement across the Middle East. More recently, her work on sexual politics has been featured in \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post, Foreign Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eZocalo, \u003c\/i\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eDenver Post\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as Facebook Watch.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 9 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 22, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764475429152,"sku":"9780306832130","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f62286d7bb34e5d86d21f443474f6552.webp?v=1780249451","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/book-of-queens-the-true-story-of-the-middle-eastern-horsewomen-who-fought-the-war-on-terror-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}