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"Saved by Beauty": Iran's remarkable contradictions
Forty years ago, Roger Housden discovered the poetry of Rumi and Hafez, read tales of exotic Sufis, and was carried away by the music and wisdom of a culture that reached back over three thousand years, ac culture that gave us our word for paradise. Longing to see is the Iran of his imagination continued to exist, or whether it had been lost forever in the revolutionary zeal of the last thirty years, Housden sets off on a journey to discover a country filled with remarkable contradictions >>> Saved by Beauty
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Roger is right
by iamfine on Mon Jun 27, 2011 10:50 PM PDTPutting the IRI aside, Iran is a vibrant country/society with multi-culture. What I found out while in Iran, if you don't get involve in politics nobody would bug you there. People would respect you a lot when find out you are educated in the USA.
Highly recommended by Ammeh
by Jahanshah Javid on Mon Jun 27, 2011 01:31 PM PDTMy aunt went to a book reading by Housden and read his book cover to cover in one night. 300 pages! Loved it. She thought it was gracious and honest in its description of Iran and Iranians.
I hope I'll be able to publish an excerpt soon.