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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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Average rating: 3.66 · 2,441 ratings · 446 reviews · 5 distinct works
Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of...
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 1,757 ratings — published 2005 — 8 editions
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3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 558 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions
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Viaggio di nozze a Teheran
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Lua de Mel em Teerão
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Perhaps it is inevitable to feel otherwise after having been raised *watching* Dear Uncle Napoleon, but the book feels to me like an endless serialization of the film series. This is partly the trouble with the comic novel, of course, but halfway thr...more
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I adored this book and keep waiting for more from Dalia Sofer. Such a layered, thoughtful exploration of the history we know so well, and what finely constructed characters. We feel sympathy for everyone who's life gets churned up by the revolution,...more
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Taut narrative, exquiste writing, and best of all, searingly honest exploration of how exile and activism disfigure families and distort even one's conception of self.
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“As a prominent conservative told me that year, "We need to go out into the wilderness for a long time, and figure out how we can one day return.”
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“We had slipped into each others lives seamlessly, as though we had known each other for years.”
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“You're perfect for each other, she had insisted. "both of you act like you're already retired, always stuck at home reading books.”
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