Source: Cryptonym Press

The newly increasing unrest in Iran, inspired by the successful protests in Egypt, which has led to the dire decree by Iranian Lawmakers for the death of the Iranian opposition leaders, makes the Gaze of the Gazelle by Arash Hejazi, all the more an urgent, and essential book.

In a tale that mingles politics and the personal, mythology and history, Hejazi tries to answer the question: How did it come to this in Iran? His quest for an answer leads him through the story of the decades long aftermath of the Iranian Revolution, when Ayatollah Khomeini was brought back from exile to drive the Shah from his throne and set up the Islamic Republic of Iran.

A must read for the current day.