University of North Carolina Press The Other Side of Silence
A Memoir of Exile, Iran, and the Global Women’s Movement
MAHNAZ AFKHAMI When a phone rings in the early hours of a November 1978 New York hotel room, Mahnaz Afkhami, the first Minister of Women’s Affairs for Iran, learns she can never go home again: her country has fallen to Ayatollah Khomeini. A member of the Shah’s government, Mahnaz struggles to rebuild her life in the United States even as she faces exile and a death warrant from the Islamic revolution. Refusing to remain silent, she reemerges as an architect of the women’s movement in the global South—only to encounter familial, cultural, political, and organizational hurdles that threaten to derail her quest to empower women and change the structure of human relations. A skilled storyteller who has spent a lifetime living in two worlds, Mahnaz shares with humor, honesty, and compassion her unexpected and meteoric rise from unassuming English professor to a champion of women’s rights in Iran. October 2022 314 pages Memoir Rights: World
Born in Kerman, Iran, Mahnaz Afkhami is the Founder and President of Women’s Learning Partnership, Executive Director of the Foundation for Iranian Studies, and former Minister for Women’s Affairs in Iran.
Accidental Kindness A Doctor’s Notes
MICHAEL STEIN October 2022 185 pages Medicine Rights: World
When we go to the doctor, when we’re hurting, we tend to think in terms of cause and condemnation. We often look for relief not only from physical symptoms but also from our self-blame. We want from our doctor’s kindness under any of its many names: empathy, caring, compassion, humanity. We look for safety and forgiveness. But we often forget that doctors, too, are often in need of forgiveness—from their patients and from themselves.using a series of moving, oftentimes autobiographical essays that examine medical and psychological history, clinical mistakes, and how one stumbles into kindness and forgiveness, Michael Stein examines the oft-times conflicting goals of patients and medicine. Kindness should not become the patient’s forbidden or unrealistic expectation, yet the aim of this book is to leave the reader with new knowledge of and insights into what they might hope for, and what might go wrong, or right, in the most intimate patient-doctor moments. Michael Stein, M.D., is the award-winning author of six novels and four books of non-fiction, most recently Broke: Patients Talk About Money With Their Doctor.
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