- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co. (3 Dec 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0393051196
- ISBN-13: 978-0393051193
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 16.3 x 2.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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Afshin Molavi, a rising young journalist born in Iran and fluent in Farsi, travelled his homeland for one year. Along the way he met a wide variety of people from a wide variety of backgrounds - students, bazaar merchants, Islamic clerics, homeless children, pro-democracy writers, Islamic hardliners, feminists, and kids hooked on anything western. They all discusses matters which were important to them: unemployment, freedom, religion, poetry, history, love, and green cards. This journey documents the real feeling of a nation, not the ones seen on camera.
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AFSHIN MOLAVI holds a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University and has reported on Iran for Reuters and the Washington Post.
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Persian Pilgrimages,
This review is from: Persian Pilgrimages: Journeys Across Iran (Hardcover)
A highly readable and informative book. I read this after having lived in Iran for some 3 months so the book both explained and confirmed characteristics of living in Iran that I had already experienced ,and prepared me for some of those not yet confronted!A book both for the shorter term tourist and ,as in my case, an expatriate living and working in the country. Iran is a country which receives a rotten and biased press in the west.A fascinating country with a rich history and a very central position in the current turmoil in the Middle East and Central Asia. Afshin's book is a balanced mixture of history and current events. If your the slightest bit intersted ,or curious ,about Iran ,read this book.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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This is the Iran of today - an enthralling read,
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This review is from: Persian Pilgrimages: Journeys Across Iran (Hardcover)
Very well written, accessible and interesting book. Benefits both from being up-to-date.
Consequently, it captures the Iran of today and not of five or ten years ago, especially in the popular cynicism about the reformists - and it also avoids the dreadful fear of so many western writers of upsetting Iranian sensibilities. This is a book that will enthrall the first-time visitor or reader who knows little or nothing about Iran - but will also delight the seasoned observer. Not an easy task.
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Good, but some things are missing,
By Green Trees "Nässjöbäcken" (York, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Persian Pilgrimages: Journeys Across Iran (Hardcover)
I agree with much of what previous reviewers have said, but: Today a young Iranian woman lost her life through hanging, her capital punishment. It brings home to me the bits I felt were missing in the book: Though is mentions in his own summary that he speaks to feminists, I certainly wasn't left with a feeling that the book looks at or addresses women't issues hardly at all. I also note that as part of future nation makers in Iran he does not mention a single woman. I don't know enough, but there are names, such as Shirin Ebadi.
Further more when placing Iran in the world, only the US seems to get considered. A good book, well worth reading, but perhaps alongside some others.
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