false 5134 5 1 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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A favorite of readers and critics nationwide, Lipstick Jihad is now available in the format most likely to appeal to its natural market-and it now includes a wealth of new material to interest readers and reading groups. Azadeh Moaveni was born in Palo Alto, California, into the lap of an Iranian diaspora community longing for an Iran many thousands of miles away. As far back as she can remember she felt at odds with her tangled identity. College magnified the clash between Iran and America, and after graduating, she moved to Tehran as a journalist. Immediately, Azadeh's exile fantasies dissolved.

Azadeh finds a country that is culturally confused, politically deadlocked, and emotionally anguished. In order to unlock the fundamental mystery of Iran-how nothing perceptibly alters, but everything changes--she must delve deep into Tehran's edgy underground. Lipstick Jihad is a rare portrait of Tehran, populated by a cast of young people whose exuberance and despair bring the modern reality of Iran to vivid life. Azadeh also reveals her private struggle to build a life in a dark country--the struggle of a young woman of the diaspora, searching for a homeland that may not exist.

]]> 5134 3.67 1193 297 2005 1213602 386612080X 9783866120808 0 <![CDATA[Mein Iran. Ein Leben zwischen Revolution und Hoffnung]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181930851m/1213602.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181930851s/1213602.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1213602.Mein_Iran_Ein_Leben_zwischen_Revolution_und_Hoffnung 4.00 2 Mein Iran hat die iranische Rechtsanwältin und Hochschullehrerin Shirin Ebadi mehr als "nur" eine Autobiografie vorgelegt. Indem die Regimekritikerin ihren Lebensweg nachzeichnet, gewährt sie zugleich tiefe Einblicke in das politische und gesellschaftliche System des schiitischen "Gottesstaates".

Die Mehrzahl der iranischen Akademiker ist weiblich. In staatlichen Ämtern indes wird man vergebens nach einer Frau Ausschau halten. 1979 hatten die im Zuge der islamischen Revolution an die Macht Gekommenen nichts Eiligeres zu tun, als die wenigen Frauen daraus schleunigst zu entfernen. So auch Shirin Ebadi, die 1975 als erste weibliche Richterin an das Teheraner Gericht berufen worden und schnell zu dessen Vorsitzenden aufgestiegen war. Sich entschieden für das Recht auch gegen die herrschenden Mullahs und deren Gesetz einzusetzen, hat man der Friedensnobelpreisträgerin des Jahres 2003 indes nicht austreiben können.

Ebadis Bemühen um eine Reform der iranischen Gesellschaft hat sie zwischenzeitlich nicht nur auf die Liste eines Tötungskommandos der Revolutionsregierung, sondern auch ins Gefängnis gebracht. Trotzdem hat sie den Iran nicht verlassen. Dazu liebt sie ihr Land zu sehr. Und diese Liebe ist es auch, aus der sie die Kraft bezieht, gegen alle Widerstände weiter für ihre Überzeugung zu kämpfen. Frauen wie sie machen Hoffnung, dass der Iran jenseits des nationalistischen Islamismus, der nach den Jahren vorsichtiger Reformen seit der Wahl von Präsident Ahmadinedschad wieder die Oberhand gewonnen zu haben scheint, eine Zukunft hat. Ein leises, kluges, unbedingt lesenswertes Buch. -- Andreas Vierecke

]]> 5135 4.04 382 84 5134 3.67 1195 298 2006 3985545 140006645X 9781400066452 70 <![CDATA[Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/39/545/3985545-m-1255979614.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/39/545/3985545-s-1255979614.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3985545.Honeymoon_in_Tehran_Two_Years_of_Love_and_Danger_in_Iran 3.93 202 Honeymoon in Tehran is a stirring, trenchant, and deeply personal chronicle of two years in the maelstrom of Iranian life.

In 2005, Azadeh Moaveni, longtime Middle East correspondent for Time magazine, returns to Iran to cover the rise of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. As she documents the firebrand leader’s troublesome entry onto the world stage, Moaveni richly portrays a society too often caricatured as the heartland of militant Islam. 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 a temporary outlet in Ahmadinejad’s strident pronouncements. Mingling with underground musicians, race car drivers, young radicals, and scholars, she explores the cultural identity crisis and class frustration that pits Iran’s next generation against the Islamic system.

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. Preparing to be wed by a mullah, she sits in on a government marriage prep class where young couples are instructed to enjoy sex. She visits Tehran’s bridal bazaar and finds that the Iranian wedding has become an outrageously lavish–though often still gender-segregated–production. When she becomes pregnant, she must prepare to give birth in an Iranian hospital, at the same time observing her friends’ struggles with their young children, who must learn to say one thing at home and another at school.

Despite her busy schedule as a wife and mother, Azadeh continues to report for Time on Iran’s nuclear standoff with the West and Iranians’ dissatisfaction with Ahmadinejad’s heavy-handed rule. But as women are arrested on the street for “immodest dress” and the authorities unleash a campaign of intimidation against journalists, the country’s dark side reemerges. This fundamentalist turn, along with the chilling presence of “Mr. X,” the government agent assigned to mind her every step, forces Azadeh to make the hard decision that her family’s future lies outside Iran.

Powerful and poignant, fascinating and humorous Honeymoon in Tehran is the harrowing story of a young woman’s tenuous life in a country she thought she could change.]]> 5134 3.67 1193 297 2009 2433602 0534424600 9780534424602 0 <![CDATA[Eng Fundamentals 2e]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2433602.Eng_Fundamentals_2e 0.0 0 5134 3.67 1193 297 2004 5435972 0534381626 9780534381622 0 <![CDATA[Engineering Fundamentals ISM]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5435972.Engineering_Fundamentals_ISM 0.0 0 5134 3.67 1193 297 2002 7339122 1588365468 9781588365460 0 <![CDATA[Iran Awakening]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7339122-iran-awakening 0.0 0 5135 4.04 382 84 5134 3.67 1193 297 2006