The truths approximately Iran—quite diverse truths from models recommend through Washington, Tehran, and the media.

Afshin Molavi, a tender journalist and author born in Iran and proficient within the West, traveled his fatherland for greater than a yr, encountering each aspect of Iranian society—students of the correct and left, bazaar retailers, Islamic clerics, pro-democracy newshounds, Islamic hard-liners, reformist politicians, grumbling taxi drivers, city slum dwellers, partying youngsters, village farmers, handicapped conflict veterans, and children addicted to whatever western. All opened their hearts to him, talking candidly a couple of wide variety of concerns: unemployment, politics, freedom, faith, poetry, historical past, the web, the legacy of the Islamic revolution, the present pro-democracy stream, Iran's kin with the West, and lots more and plenty extra. all through his conferences and travels, Molavi wove the story of approximately 3,000 years of Iranian historical past via pilgrimages to old and modern websites, shrines, and monuments, vividly explaining the relevance of Iran's previous to contemporary Iranian concern. The pilgrimages levels from the tomb of Cyrus the good at the windswept plains of Pasargad to the luxurious rose gardens on the Shiraz shrine for the fourteenth-century poet Hafez, the golden domes of Ayatollah Khomeini's massive mausoleum in Tehran, a haunting conflict veterans' shrine for survivors of the devastating Iran-Iraq warfare close to the border of Iraq, and the eu embassy "visa pilgrimages" of faculty graduates annoyed by means of bleak activity customers and the social and political regulations at domestic. slicing in the course of the legit rhetoric of the Islamic Republic, Molavi provides much-needed context to its political energy fight and demonstrates that the realities of ultra-modern Iran are way more advanced than if usually understood within the West. via interviews with brave reporters, scholars, and pro-democracy advocates who conflict an entrenched conservative ruling type unwilling to deal with well known opinion and diverse conversations with standard Iranians annoyed by means of their deteriorating financial system and the conservative stranglehold on energy, Molavi chronicles a land and a humans hungry for swap. Few books have penetrated the soul of Iran—both earlier and present—as deeply as this remarkable file on one of many world's most vital international locations. Persian Pilgrimages is a trip to recollect. "A infrequent and demanding paintings that examines Iranian society from a grassroots, human point whereas delivering a flavor of the grand sweep of Iranian heritage. i'd hugely suggest this publication to a person drawn to modern Iran." —R. ok. Ramazani, professor emeritus of politics, collage of Virginia. 12 pages of illustrations and map

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