Our Director Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, Professor of History, has recently published her first novel, Martyrdom Street, set during the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the ensuing Iran-Iraq War of 1980-89. The novel chronicles the lives of three Iranian women, Fatemah, Nasrin, and Yasaman, who tell their intimate stories of love, loss, betrayal, and hope in interwining narratives that unfurl simultaneously in America and Iran.