Drinking Arak off an Ayatollahs Beard : A Journey Through the Inside-Out Worlds of Iran and Afghanistan

English

ISBN: 0306818841

EAN: 9780306818844

Category: Social Science / Sociology / General/Travel / Middle East / General/Travel / Asia / Southwest/

Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated

Release Date: 04/30/2010

Synopsis: Iran and Afghanistan. Two modern countries so overtaken by Islamic fundamentalism that many citizens spend their entire lives hiding what they do, enjoy, and value. To better understand the cultural issues and paradoxes facing Iranians and Afghans today, Nicholas Jubber travels from the underground dance parties of Tehran to the opium dens of south Afghanistan. Along the way he discovers traces of a vibrant, pre-Islamic Persian culture, and with each encounter he is increasingly drawn back to an unlikely sourceFerdowsi, the father of Persian culture, whose eleventh century epic, theShahnameh(Book of Kings), becomes both Jubbers window into the regions past and his link to its tumultuous present.

Drinking Arak off an Ayatollahs Beard : A Journey Through the Inside-Out Worlds of Iran and Afghanistan

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 1.01 inches

Width: 6.0 inches

Length: 9.0 inches

Weight: 15.52 oz

Pages: 368