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The Soul of Iran: A Nation's Journey to Freedom
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| Part No: | 0393325970 |
| Manufacturer: | W. W. Norton |
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| Customer Rating: | 4.0 / 5.0 |
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- ISBN13: 9780393325973
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The truths about Iran; quite different truths from versions put forward by Washington, Tehran, and the media. Iran thundered onto the world stage in 1979 with an Islamic revolution that shook the world. Today that revolution has gone astray, a popular democracy movement boldly challenges authority, and young Iranians are more interested in moving to America than in chanting "Death to America." Afshin Molavi, born in Iran and fluent in Persian, traveled widely across his homeland, exploring the legacy of the Iranian revolution and probing the soul of Iran, a land with nearly three millennia of often-glorious history. Like a master Persian carpet maker, Molavi weaves together threads of rich historical insight, political analysis, cultural observation, and the daily realities of life in the Islamic republic to produce a colorful, intricate, and mesmerizing narrative. Originally published in hardcover under the title
Persian Pilgrimages, this paperback edition is revised, with a new introduction and epilogue.
| They ran out of copies and cancelled the order. | 2009-09-04 | 1 / 5 |
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| what more can i say? if you had a "does not apply" option i would take that. they were prompt about letting me know about the shortage. |
| IGNORING THE REALITIES OF IRAN | 2009-09-04 | 1 / 5 |
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| This book tries to put a human face on the terrible Khomeinist regime by associating it with the beauties of Iranian culture and civilization. Sadly, Khomeinism is the enemy of Iranian civilization and cannotbe sold under a mask. To understand the true soul of Iran, interested readers must go to other contemporary Iranian writers who do not wish to be apologists for Khomeinisim. Among those that I have enjoyed are Azar Nafisi, Fereydoun Hoveyda, Amir Taheri and Abbas Amanat. |
| Well written travel log | 2009-07-25 | 5 / 5 |
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| Part travel log and part 20th century political history of Iran. The book's chapters are organized around "pilgrimages" to various sites of historical or cultural importance between 1999-2000 and 2003. His pilgrimages cover the historic (Tomb of Cyrus) to modern cultural (Shrine of Khomeini) to the modern economic (Canadian consul in Syria for visas). Molvai, an Iranian-American, masterfully connects these stories and weaves his own observations with background and history for the reader. The reader comes away with a more complete view of Iranian culture and a different perspective than the "Death to America" chanting and nuclear saber rattling that we see on the major news networks. |
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I started this book with a lot of enthusiasm,& was immediately hugely disappointed. I did not continue beyond a few pages. It's full of cliches which have been said 1000 times, with nothing new to say. Wait until it becomes $0.01, then it may be considered. If you need a good read about the real Iran buy "My Life as a Traiter" by Zara Ghahramani,"Lipstick Jihad" by Azadeh Moaveni &
books by Azar Nafisi, Marina Nemat, Firoozeh Dumas, Shirin Ebadi as well as an original look at the contemporary scene :"We are Iran". |
| Excellent and beautifully written account of modern and historical Iran | 2008-06-09 | 5 / 5 |
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| I loved this book. It provided a wonderfully written, well-paced, well-researched and incredibly entertaining account of modern day Iran and the historical events that it made it the way it is. I couldn't put it down. |
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