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The Soul of Iran: A Nation's Journey to Freedomby Afshin Molavi
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:"Death to America," the bearded student chants as television cameras roll; when the cameras leave, the students accosts Afshin Molavi: "I hear you have come from America! How can I get a green card?" This is Iran, the culmination of 2,600 years of Persian history and a nation of many realities. Molavi, born in Iran and fluent in Farsi, traveled his homeland for over a year, meeting with students of the right and left, bazaar merchants, Islamic clerics, pro-democracy writers, and kids hooked on anything Western. All opened their hearts to Molavi, speaking candidly about issues that matter to them: from unemployment to the Internet, from the ruling clerics to green cards. Book News Annotation:Molavi (a fellow at the New America Foundation) presents a
journalistic account of his travels around contemporary Iran, in
which he interviewed a broad range of Iranian people, including
hardline supporters of the Khomeinist political regime; young men
trading pop music from "Tehrangeles" (the large Iranian community in
Los Angeles); the grandson of Mohhamed Mossadeq, the prime minister
overthrown in a CIA-engineered coup in the 1950s; lovers of poetry
taking pride in the grand Persian literary traditions; and many
others. He combines these experiences with excursions into Iranian
history in order to provide a portrait of the country that is richer
and more nuanced than that to which most Americans are exposed; but
it is still shaped by his identity as an American journalist (albeit
of Iranian ethnicity).
Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Book News Annotation:Molavi (a fellow at the New America Foundation) presents a
journalistic account of his travels around contemporary Iran, in
which he interviewed a broad range of Iranian people, including
hardline supporters of the Khomeinist political regime; young men
trading pop music from "Tehrangeles" (the large Iranian community in
Los Angeles); the grandson of Mohhamed Mossadeq, the prime minister
overthrown in a CIA-engineered coup in the 1950s; lovers of poetry
taking pride in the grand Persian literary traditions; and many
others. He combines these experiences with excursions into Iranian
history in order to provide a portrait of the country that is richer
and more nuanced than that to which most Americans are exposed; but
it is still shaped by his identity as an American journalist (albeit
of Iranian ethnicity).
Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Synopsis: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. Synopsis:The truths about Iran; quite different truths from versions put forward by Washington, Tehran, and the media.
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