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        Red Blindness

        by Alieh Ataee

        The nine short stories of Korsorkhi are the narrations of life and war. Korsorkhi tells the story of Alie Ataee, from 1986 when she was a young girl to her adulthood in 2016. These stories, which are bitter observations of war, blood, and pain, depict the bloodshed that the Soviets and Taliban shed in Afghanistan and the migrant people who lived on the border village of Iran and Afghanistan. Reading this book is beneficial for our understanding of the suffering of immigrants to avoid discriminatory attitudes towards them. Furthermore, Ataee depicts the contemporary history of Afghanistan in this book, including the emergence of campaigns and how they affect people's lives.

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        I Wore Chador and Went Visiting: Alieh Khanom Shirazi’s Travelogue

        by Zohre Torabi

        The ten-volume collection of Mecca travelogues includes eighty travelogues written by several men and women throughout the Qajar period. Such travelogues provide us with interesting information about the geography of Iran, Usmani, Iraq, Sham, and India. Men have written most of the travelogues of the Qajar period. But the travelogues presented in this book are written by a brave, sincere woman traveling to Mecca, alone, without her family. Her experiences are of great importance and value for those eager to know more about the travel situations during the Qajar period.

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