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Maziar Bahari, one of the very finest Iranian journalists still shining a light on his homeland, has coedited with Malu Halasa, a truly insightful account of the real Iran the Iran we never hear above the hubbub of rhetoric and allegation. This is the Iran so many of us who travel there know and both admire and think about. It is the Iran that defies politics and economics and remains somehow simply Persian. --Jon Snow, Channel Four News
Tehran is a city literally, photographically, musically, and sexually seething with tiny (and sometimes not so tiny) acts of rebellion, in which swarms of mostly anonymous young Iranians experiment with ways to test the limits of freedom. The evidence that they do so with such panache, creativity, and often courage, is to be found in this wonderful book of brilliant essays and evocative photographs. That they do so may be a cause of concern to the government of Iran. It should be the source of great reassurance to all who believe in the power of the human spirit. --Ted Koppel, Managing Editor, Discovery Channel
A wonderfully illustrative view of Iran's young, hip and avant garde. Westerners take note: They are here and will be heard. --Fareed Zakaria, Editor of Newsweek International
Tehran is a city literally, photographically, musically, and sexually seething with tiny (and sometimes not so tiny) acts of rebellion, in which swarms of mostly anonymous young Iranians experiment with ways to test the limits of freedom. The evidence that they do so with such panache, creativity, and often courage, is to be found in this wonderful book of brilliant essays and evocative photographs. That they do so may be a cause of concern to the government of Iran. It should be the source of great reassurance to all who believe in the power of the human spirit. --Ted Koppel, Managing Editor, Discovery Channel
A wonderfully illustrative view of Iran's young, hip and avant garde. Westerners take note: They are here and will be heard. --Fareed Zakaria, Editor of Newsweek International
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Tehran is a city of contradictions. Its swollen population of fourteen million and upwards contains the religious, the irreligious and the simply indifferent. Located on a major fault line, it is nevertheless in the throes of a construction boom. While regular demonstrations after Friday prayers call for the death of Great Satan America, Iranians of all ages enjoy a long-standing love affair with Western luxury brands. Among the hip and fashionable, the veil has morphed from cover-up to come-on, and the young women in colourful scarves and heavy makeup are increasingly targeted by the female officers of the Special Guidance Patrols. Transit Tehran: Young Iran and Its Inspirations is an original anthology of writing and images primarily featuring the generation of photojournalists who came of age during the reformist movement. Newsha Tavakolian, Abbas Kowsari, Javad Montazeri and Omid Salehi continue to document the social transformation of their country despite the government's mass closures of newspapers and magazines. Unexpected facets of urban experience are explored in the art of Sadegh Tirafkan, the new journalism of Asieh Amini, and the short stories of Alireza Mahmoodi-Iranmehr. Transit Tehran also celebrates the long tradition of artistic and cultural resistance that has influenced young Iranians, noticeably in the work of veteran writer and editor Masoud Behnoud, premier satirist and cartoonist Ardeshir Mohassess, and photographers Kaveh Golestan and Mohsen Rastani. The Internet, youth and fashion culture and the homegrown trends of the Islamic Republic fuel the city's paradoxes its pains as well as its obvious pleasures. Sunk in permanent smog, tangled in traffic jams, suffused with the threat of war and political unrest, life in Tehran is chaotic and unpredictable. Its passions and preoccupations make it a city like no other.
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"Transit Tehran: Young Iran and Its Inspirations", eds. Maul Halasa & Maziar Bahari, large-size paperback, 240 pgs, English, (2008: in German by Salis Verlag, Zurich; 2009 in English by Garnet Pub., UK). I wish I could write that this book is a really interesting, informative, expansive look at Tehran, Iran - but I can't. It contains 35 articles detailing something about Tehran as written by various authors. One photo caption contends: "Except for Thailand, Iran is the country with the highest number of sex change operations in the world. Transsexuals...end up unemployed or working as prostitutes" (19). Discusses the development of hip-hop in the 1990s, but limited info. 1990s: women forbidden to attend male-soccer games, but paradoxically women from foreign countries are allowed to visit the haram-stadium to support their foreign male-member team playing against the Iranian male team. Policewomen are trained to look for `bad hijab'; photos of female police training in chadors while rappelling down walls. Short articles, not really much `in depth'. Numerous photos, but few details or analysis. One very short article about prostitutes before the Revolution--some photos, dingy, hopeless, but no analysis. Lots of words, but little `meaning' or analysis in the text--wordy. A picture of `The Road to Freedom Monument' - so? The articles look for social-ills dirt, but not finding much. Recounts a methadone-treatment program in Tehran in 2003, about syringe exchanges - the author contends: "the country holds an infamous world record for drug use" (183). 5 photos of a family playing in the coastal waters, one young man half-clad holding the hands of his chardor-clad girlfriend playing in the ocean. An interesting fictional account of a dead Iranian soldier who recounts his death and burial in several Iraqi cemeteries until he is reburied in Tehran: "Sometimes it's sunny and sometimes it rains. An orange butterfly is sitting on a grassy patch with yellow flowers. Now it flits off and goes towards the old trees" (199). A group of clandestine photos taken of everyday life along Vali Asr street in Tehran: one showing a group of 20 people waiting for a bus, the chador-clad women waiting on the right-side of the bus-stop sign while the men wait on the left-side. Not one of the first 17 books that I would recommend reading about Tehran.
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