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Books the golden cage by shirin ebadi ceasefire magazine. Iran awakening by shirin ebadi penguin books new zealand. I write this letter to my daughters and their generation, 41 years after a revolution that my. One day in 1980, the countrys new islamic penal code adopted overnight and without discussion appeared in the morning newspaper.
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