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Books for Troubled Times in the Middle East Destination: Iran Book: Saved by Beauty: Adventures of an American Romantic in Iran (NEW May 2011) by Roger Housden Roger Housden‘s Saved by Beauty combines an enticing travel guidebook with a philosophical memoir as he travels in Iran, seeking the beautiful culture he first fell in love [...]
PDF Books for the Arab World in Troubled Times Destination: Middle East Book: Dining with Al Qaeda (2010)by Hugh Pope Every Monday for a while now, I’ve been writing about books that might shed some light on the current internal struggles of countries in the Middle East (as well as Iraq and Afghanistan as the center [...]
Books for Troubled Times in the Arab World Destination: Iran (Persia, 12th Century) Book: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward Fitzgerald (1917) The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam*, a rather slim book with its ivory slip cover and front embossed with green, red and gold twining roses held an honored position in my parent’s living [...]
The Arab World in Troubled Times The troubled times that the news reporters have tagged as “Arab Spring” continue. Things are heating up in Syria, as government troops fire on mourners. (See our review of The Calligrapher’s Secret, set in a peaceful Damascus). The U.S. is sending drones into Libya and French spokesmen are calling [...]
Destination: Iran Book: NEW Cemetery of Dreams (October 2010) by S. Mostofi I was not sure Cemetery of Dreams by S. Mostofi would make it to the Travelers’ Library, because I’ve had bad results with self-published books. Print PDF
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Destination: Iran Book: Inge Morath: Iran Additional text by Monika Faber and Azar Nafisi and edited by John P. Jacob. Review copy provided by the publisher, Steidl, Germany. Print PDF
With violence raging on the streets of Tehran, it is a good time to look back at Reading Lolita in Tehran to get an understanding of real life in Tehran.
