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The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran Book

Paperback. Pub Date: August. 2009 Pages: 304 Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd. Hooman Majd. Acclaimed journalist and New York-residing grandson of an Ayatollah. Has a unique PERSPECTIVE on HIS Iranian Homeland. In this to vivid for. WARM and withhumorous Insider's account . he opens our eyes to an Iran that few people see. meeting opium-smoking clerics. women cab drivers and sartorially challenged presidential officials. among others. Revealing a country where both t-shirt wearing teenagers and religious martyrs express pride in their Persian origins . that is deeply religious yet highly cosmopolitan. authoritarian yet reformist. this is the one book you should read to understand Iran and Iranians today.Read More

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  • Foyles

    Hooman Majd, acclaimed journalist and New York-residing grandson of an Ayatollah, has a unique perspective on his Iranian homeland. In this vivid, warm and humorous insider's account, he opens our eyes to an Iran that few people see, meeting opium-smoking clerics, women cab drivers and sartorially challenged presidential officials, among others. Revealing a country where both t-shirt wearing teenagers and religious martyrs express pride in their Persian origins, that is deeply religious yet highly cosmopolitan, authoritarian yet reformist, this is the one book you should read to understand Iran and Iranians today.

  • Waterstones

    Introduces readers to an Iran that few people see, meeting opium-smoking clerics, women cab drivers and sartorially challenged presidential officials, among others. This work reveals a country where both t-shirt wearing teenagers and religious martyr

  • 0141047410
  • 9780141047416
  • Hooman Majd
  • 27 August 2009
  • Penguin
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 304
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