“Ghani is unique: a scholar and film obsessive of vast erudition who owes no favors to man or studio.[read more>>]

“The fruit of a lifetime’s devotion to English and Persian literature – learned, lucid, and full of unexpected insights into the Elizabethans’ fascination with the brave new world of the orient and its impact on Shakespeare’s unique imagination.” – Al Alvarez.[read more>>]

“Offers a profoundly civilized insight into the great changes inside Iran during the first half of the twentieth century.”[read more>>]

“… Future historians will find in it more of value about the ways of the Shah and those around him during the critical months of the Revolution than in any other book so far written by an Iranian…Dr. Ghani includes intriguing tit-bits of information in some of his commentaries. . .[read more>>]