3.5
Honeymoon in Tehran
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BONUS: This edition contains a Honeymoon in Tehran discussion guide.
Azadeh Moaveni, longtime Middle East correspondent for Time magazine, returns to Iran to cover the rise of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Living and working in Tehran, she finds a nation that openly yearns for freedom and contact with the West but whose economic grievances and nationalist spirit find an outlet in Ahmadinejad’s strident pronouncements. And then the unexpected happens: Azadeh falls in love with a young Iranian man and decides to get married and start a family in Tehran. Suddenly, she finds herself navigating an altogether different side of Iranian life. As women are arrested for “immodest dress” and the authorities unleash a campaign of intimidation against journalists, Azadeh is forced to make the hard decision that her family’s future lies outside Iran. Powerful and poignant, Honeymoon in Tehran is the harrowing story of a young woman’s tenuous life in a country she thought she could change.
Azadeh Moaveni, longtime Middle East correspondent for Time magazine, returns to Iran to cover the rise of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Living and working in Tehran, she finds a nation that openly yearns for freedom and contact with the West but whose economic grievances and nationalist spirit find an outlet in Ahmadinejad’s strident pronouncements. And then the unexpected happens: Azadeh falls in love with a young Iranian man and decides to get married and start a family in Tehran. Suddenly, she finds herself navigating an altogether different side of Iranian life. As women are arrested for “immodest dress” and the authorities unleash a campaign of intimidation against journalists, Azadeh is forced to make the hard decision that her family’s future lies outside Iran. Powerful and poignant, Honeymoon in Tehran is the harrowing story of a young woman’s tenuous life in a country she thought she could change.
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3.5
Amanda McDowell
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Rachel Curry
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“I found Moaveni's nuanced uncertainty a valuable foundation for a memoir of such a complex world. The answers to life's biggest questions are typically not tied up with a neat bow, and she made that clear in her tale of career and family in and out of Iran. Plus, as a (western) journalist, the insight into a world I'll never know was deeply appreciated.
For anyone reading, the epilogue and afterword are essential.”
Kathryn M. Helgren
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“Parts of this, especially in the first half were interesting, but it turned out to be way too long and pretty boring for the most part. I did not realize that she was the author of Lipstick Jihad about her life as a young adult torn between being a California teenager while also being an Iranian. I had added that book to my TBR awhile back, but will now remove it. Maybe it would be interesting, but after reading this book, I don't want to take the chance. Maybe I've just OD'd the past couple months on books from the Middle East, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, but regardless I'm taking a long break on books of this topic. I debate on whether to give this one or two stars, but I think it will eventually get 2 stars, since there was some interesting topics in it.”
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About Azadeh Moaveni
Azadeh Moaveni is the author of Lipstick Jihad and the co-author, with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, of Iran Awakening. She has lived and reported throughout the Middle East, and speaks both Farsi and Arabic fluently. As one of the few American correspondents allowed to work continuously in Iran since 1999, she has reported widely on youth culture, women's rights, and Islamic reform for Time, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, NPR, and the Los Angeles Times. Currently a Time magazine contributing writer on Iran and the Middle East, she lives with her husband and son in London.
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