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Lipstick Jihad - A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran (Paperback, New Ed)
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Lipstick Jihad - A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran (Paperback, New Ed)
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As far back as she can remember, Azadeh Moaveni has felt at odds
with her tangled identity as an Iranian-American. In suburban
America, Azadeh lived in two worlds. At home, she was the daughter
of the Iranian exile community, serving tea, clinging to tradition,
and dreaming of Tehran. Outside, she was a California girl who
practiced yoga and listened to Madonna. For years, she ignored the
tense standoff between her two cultures. But college magnified the
clash between Iran and America, and after graduating, she moved to
Iran as a journalist. This is the story of her search for identity,
between two cultures cleaved apart by a violent history. It is also
the story of Iran, a restive land lost in the twilight of its
revolution. Moaveni's homecoming falls in the heady days of the
country's reform movement, when young people demonstrated in the
streets and shouted for the Islamic regime to end. In these
tumultuous times, she struggles to build a life in a dark country,
wholly unlike the luminous, saffron and turquoise-tinted Iran of
her imagination. As she leads us through the drug-soaked,
underground parties of Tehran, into the hedonistic lives of young
people desperate for change, Moaveni paints a rare portrait of
Iran's rebellious next generation. The landscape of her Tehran ,
ski slopes, fashion shows, malls and cafes , is populated by a cast
of young people whose exuberance and despair brings the modern
reality of Iran to vivid life.
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