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Awake: A Moslem Woman’s Rare Memoir of Her Life and Partnership with the Editor of Molla Nasreddin, the Most Influential Satirical Journal of the Caucasus and Iran, 1907–1931

By Hamideh Khanum Javanshir, Translated from the Azeri by Hasan Javadi & Willem Floor In Biography & Memoir, History, and Recent Titles Tagged In 20th Century, Agriculture, Azerbaijani, Books by Hasan Javadi, Books by Willem Floor, Cartoons, Constitutional Revolution, Education, Farming, Feminism, Feminist, Girls, Hamideh Khanum, Humor, Islam, Islamic, Medicine, Mirza Jalil Mamadqulizadeh, Molla Nasreddin, Moslem, Political, Qajar, Satire, Satirical, Sociolology, and Women.

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The marriage between Hamideh Khanum, the daughter of a leading aristocratic Azerbaijani family, and Mirza Jalil Mamadqulizadeh, founder and editor of the renowned satirical journal Molla Nasreddin, was a union of like-minded spirits.[read more>>]

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