TY - BOOK ID - 80731474 TI - Charand-o Parand : Revolutionary Satire from Iran, 1907-1909 AU - Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar, AU - Afary, Janet AU - Perry, John R. PY - 2016 SN - 0300220669 9780300220667 0300197993 9780300197990 PB - New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Persian wit and humor. KW - Political satire, Persian. KW - Persian political satire KW - Persian wit and humor KW - Persian literature KW - Iran KW - Politics and government. KW - Iran--Politics and government. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80731474 AB - A classic of Modern Persian literature, Charand-o Parand (Stuff and Nonsense) is a work familiar to every literate Iranian. Originally a series of newspaper columns written by scholar and satirist Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, the pieces poke fun at mullahs, the shah, and the old religious and political order during the Constitutional Revolution in Iran (1906-11). The essays were the Daily Show of their era. The columns were heatedly debated in the Iranian parliament, and the newspaper was shut down on several occasions for its criticism of the religious establishment. Translated by two distinguished scholars of Persian language and history, this volume makes Dehkhoda's entertaining political observations available to English readers for the first time. ER -