Fada'i Guerrilla Praxis in Iran, 1970 - 1979

The Iranian People''s Fada''i Guerrillas have received little dedicated scholarly investigation in the shadow of the Iranian Revolution. This unique collection combines scholarly analysis of the movement, with first-hand accounts from those within the movement, in order to shed light on the experiences, organisation and history of this group during the 1970''s. The volume is partly composed of eyewitness accounts from veteran Fada''i members on themes such as everyday life in safehouses, the activities of the small but active Fada''i representation abroad, the experience of Fada''i men and women who were subject to long imprisonment in the 1970s or perspectives on military organisation. Alongside these accounts are scholarly investigations into the various aspects in the history of the organisation, which cover elements such as its ideological foundations and political orientation, the importance of the Iranian labour movement in Fada''i thought and praxis and the impact of guerrilla activism in the arts.>

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Touraj Atabaki is Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History and Professor Emeritus of Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia at Leiden University. Atabaki studied theoretical physics and later history at the University of London and Utrecht University. Following positions at Utrecht University and the University of Amsterdam, he joined Leiden University where he held the Chair of Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia. Atabaki's research encompasses historiography, social history of labour and subaltern studies in Twentieth century Iran, the Ottoman Empire and Turkey as well as the Caucasus and Central Asia. His forthcoming publications are: Social History of the Iranian Oil Industry (Cambridge University Press) and Fallen in the Whirlwind: Life and Time of Iranian Migrant Labour and Political Activists during the Soviet Great Purge (Cambridge University Press). Atabaki's major publications and research projects can be found on: https://socialhistory.org/en/staff/touraj-atabaki**Nasser Mohajer is an independent scholar of modern Iranian history. He studied Sociology in the United States and History and Economics in France. He currently resides in Paris, is on the editorial board of Nogteh Books and works with Nogteh Resources on Iran (http://www.noghteh.org). He is the former editor in chief of two periodicals on Iranian politics and culture: Aghazi Now (1985-1994) and Noghteh (1995-1999). He served on the editorial board of the periodicals, Noghteh Review (*1995-1997) and *Iran Bulletin (1992-2000), which covered Iranian history and culture. He has authored and edited Voices of a Massacre : Untold Stories of Life and Death in Iran, 1988 (OneWorld, 2020) and The Uprising of Iranian Women, March 1979, 2 Vols., co-authored with Mahnaz Matin, (Noghteh Books, 2013). His articles have been published in numerous journals, including Annals of the Iranian Women's Studies Foundation, Arash, Azadi, Baha'i Studies Review, Bukhara, Baran, Ceshmandaz, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Daftarha-ye Kanun, Iran Namag, and Iran Nameh. He has taught courses and given lectures on aspects of modern Iranian history.Siavush Randjbar-Daemi is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He was previously Lecturer in Iranian History at the University of Manchester. He specialises in the political history of Iran since 1941, with a current emphasis on the Left and periods of political diversity, particularly 1941-1953 and 1977-1981. He is the author of the The Quest for Authority in Iran: A History of the Presidency from Revolution to Rouhani (I.B. Tauris, 2018).