ENDEN: Yeah, I think basically when I'm trying to work on my short game, I'm a player that generally spins the ball a lot, so talking technically, I need to sort of almost change my swing so that I come down with a more shallower angle of the ball so that gives me less spin and allows the ball to be more consistent in that area. Sometimes I think when I've got a steep angle of attack, my yardages are not consistent enough, so I need to be -- that's what we've worked hard on, and that's been a long process because that pretty much goes against what I do with my long game because I generally am late hitting the ball, and with that wedge game hitting it late, it kind of -- steeper divot, gives me a bit more spin, a bit more difficult to keep your distance control on shots. So we've been working hard on that.
You know, so just putting in the time, just putting in the work in that area, being creative, hitting high shots, low shots. I take a look at a player like Phil Mickelson who is very creative around the green, very good at hitting shots from on and around the green, inside 100 yards is excellent. So you look at those players, you look at the -- what say Steve Stricker does or even how Tiger plays, his wedge shot is fantastic. I look at those players, look at their style and try to improve my game around some of those players.
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In The Lonely War, Fathi interweaves her story with that of the country she left behind, showing how Iran is locked in a battle between hardliners and reformers that dates back to the countryss destitute, uneducated housekeeper was able to retire and purchase a modern apartmentall because her family supported the new regime.
As Fathi shows, changes like these caused decades of inequalityespecially for the poor and for womento vanish overnight. Yet a new breed of tyranny took its place, as she discovered when she began her journalistic career. Fathi quickly confronted the upper limits of opportunity for women in the new Iran and earned the enmity of the countrys ruthless intelligence service. But while she and many other Iranians have fled for the safety of the West, millions of their middleclass countrymenmany of them the same people whom the regime once lifted out of povertycontinue pushing for more personal freedoms and a renewed relationship with the outside world.
Drawing on over two decades of reporting and extensive interviews with both ordinary Iranians and high-level officials before and since her departure, Fathi describes Irans awakening alongside her own, revealing how moderates are steadily retaking the country.
New York Times
A revealing and often exhilarating portrait of [Fathis] life as a female reporter in the Islamic Republic.”
Wall Street Journal
A personal and experiential account of how changes in the internecine politics of Iran since the revolution have affected the lives of millions. Fathis supremely accessible narrative is an excellent primer for those who want to understand the machinations of the regime; hers is a brave and important voice.”
Washington Post
Fathi distills three decades of Iranian politics through a personal lens in her unputdownable memoir.”
Vogue.com
Paints a vivid portrait of a nation struggling to reinvent itself after years of oppression.”
Shelf Awareness
An invaluable contribution to our understanding of current Iranian political and cultural dynamics, the driving forces behind Iranian foreign policy, and the challenges the country is likely to face in the near future.”
Foreign Policy Association
Vivid and compelling
Fathi recounts in exquisite detail three decades in pre and post-1979 Iran revealing the inherent contradictions at the heart of life after the revolution.”
The Guardian (UK)
Fathi offers a masterful telling of her countrys
Moving
The book intertwines [Fathis] personal experiences of marriage and motherhood with the major events of the period.”
Al-Monitor
In a skilful balance of personal history and academic research, Fathi brings to life the complex social, economic and political upheaval of the transition from the shah of Iran's western-oriented, oil-drunk secular society, to the Ayatollah Khomeini's vision of a cloistered Shiite Islamic republic.... A detailed, vivid chronicle of three decades of oppression, complex power struggle and, as Fathi makes clear, a people who will not be silenced. An important, highly enjoyable contribution to the understanding of modern Iran.”
Winnipeg Free Press
[Fathis] sharp new memoir, The Lonely War, reveals an expert understanding of the motivations of Irans tangled, self-contradictory religious and political leadership. A well-told story about Irans ongoing resistance to faith-based oppression.”
Washington City Paper
[A] gripping account
This is essential reading for anyone interested in the evolution of modern Iran.”
Booklist
Readers keeping an eye on the contemporary Middle East will learn much from Fathi's travels and observations.”
Kirkus Reviews
Richly informative and insightfula wonderful book and a great read.”
Leila Ahmed, author of A Border Passage: From Cairo to AmericaA Woman's Journey
Nazila Fathathis book is a valuable resource for anyone looking to read beyond the headlines.”
Hooman Majd, author of The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran
Nazila Fathis riveting story of growing up under the Islamic Revolution and becoming one of the country's finest women journalists is told with passion and deep intelligence. A powerful read that sheds much needed light on Ir books most illuminating features is her vivid portrait of the impoverished recruits for the paramilitary Basij and Revolutionary Guard Corpsincludingand also been inspired bytheir Islamic Republic. Journalist Nazila Fathi gives us a powerful personal account of coming of age in revolutionary Iran, exploring Irans turbulent modern history through a remarkable cast of real characters and deftly navigating Irans cultural and political divide to provide us a superb picture of what makes Iran today.”
Scott Peterson, author of Let the Swords Encircle Me: IranA Journey Behind the Headlines
The Lonely War reveals a new Nazila Fathi: not just the intrepid New York Times correspondent, but also a woman struggling through life in turbulent Iran. This book, like Marjane Satrapis Persepolis, mixes the personal with the political against a backdrop of war and revolution. Provocative, moving, insightful, and full of scary characters, The Lonely War takes us deep inside one of the worlds most fascinating societies.”
Stephen Kinzer, author of All the Shahs Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
A poignant portrait of Irans tortured contemporary history through the eyes of one of the countrys nations despair and hope and a window onto what the future holds for Iran.”
Vali Nasr, author of Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat
In The Lonely War, Fathi describes Irans awakening alongside her own, revealing how moderates are retaking the countryand how foreign powers can aid their progress.
Part One: The Formative Years, 1979–1989
1. The Revolution
2. Nessa
3. The Time of Horror
4. World Powers Did It!”
5. The Cleansing
6. The War
7. Our Bodies, Our Battlefields
8. Masoud
9. The War Ends
Part Two: Awakening, 1989–1999
10. After Khomeini
11. Meeting a Hawk
12. The Intelligence Ministry
13. The War Revisited
14. The Walls Come Crashing Down
15. Nessa Mourns
16. A Force for Change
17. Reform
18. The Regime Strikes Back
Part Three: The Decades of Confrontation, 1999–2009
19. The Performers Speak Out
20. No Fear of Authority
21. The Good” Children of the Revolution
22. The Bad” Children of the Revolution
23. Nasrin
24. The Rising Tide
25. End of an Era
26. Exile
EpilogueDon’t Hug Me I’m Scared, by London-based art collective This Is It, at first seems like a bizarro children’s television from an alternate dimension. Looking at the modern, television landscape, however, it would seem that much of the programming for neonates is comprised of educational material wrapped in visuals that would make the Surrealists weep with joy. If anything, this is just taking the concept to its logical, if unsettling, conclusion.
The title sums up exactly how I feel after watching this film. Euurggh.
Oh my god. I love it. So much.Being a friend right now is harder than usual, if you ask me. Not only are we unable to physically connect and hug our friends like some of us need most right now, it might also be hard to emotionally connect. Meaningful relationships always take work, but this is a new kind of work. Usually in friendships, you have a nice array of mindsets and stability that even each other out, bringing much needed balance and perspective to help each other through the harder to navigate seasons.
These days, we are collectively having big emotions, hard days, ups and downs that we can hardly understand ourselves. We don’t exactly know what we need right now, and we aren’t really sure what we have to