Individual Member: Liisa Liimatainen

Besides news journalist I have written books. The first one, dealing with Iran has the title: Iran: Huntu ja haaste - Yritys ymmärtää Iranin yhteiskuntaa, Like, 2009, 304 pages (in English: Iran: The Veil and the Challenge - An attempt to understand Iranian society) with an update of 60 pages published the next year: Iranin vihreän liikkeen digitaalinen vallankumous (in English: The Digital Revolution of the Iranian Green Movement). In 2013 I published a book on Saudi Arabia describing the birth of civil society in that country with the title: Saudi-Arabian toiset kasvot - Rohkeita naisia ja kybernuoria, Like (in English: Another face of Saudi Arabia - Brave Women and Cyber Youth, LIke 404 pages. The book on Saudi Arabia was published in Italian strongly updated with the title: L'Arabia Saudita. Uno Stato islamico contro le donne e i diritti, Castelvecchi, 2016, 304 pagine (in English: Saudi Arabia - An islamic State against women and the rights). This book was elected by Italian Institute for International Affairs (IAI) as the book of the month in November 2016. I also wrote the chapter on Saudi Arabia for e book on Syria: Siria. Una pace impossibile, Castelvecchi, 2017, edited by Claudia De Martino, a researcher in the Unimed office of Rome. Now I am working on a book on the regional conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia for my Finnish editor, Like. For the research of this book I have been recently in Lebanon and in Iran and before in Saudi Arabia.