A decade before the 1979 revolution, Indo-Pakistani author Qurratulain Hyder visited Iran to accompany the Pahlavi royal family as she prepared a biography of former Empress Farah Pahlavi. The text she prepared was lost forever; but an article she wrote years later in the throes of the uprising casts a harsh light on her journey through the royal family's curated image of modernity and progress.View Post
