Drinking arak off an ayatollah's beard : a journey through the inside-out worlds of Iran and Afghanistan / Nicholas Jubber.
نوع المادة :
نصالناشر:Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2010الطبعات:1st Da Capo Press edوصف:x, 327 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 23 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780306818844
- 0306818841
- Iran -- Description and travel
- Afghanistan -- Description and travel
- Jubber, Nicholas -- Travel -- Iran
- Jubber, Nicholas -- Travel -- Afghanistan
- Firdawsī. Shāhnāmah
- Iran -- Social conditions -- 1997-
- Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- Social conflict -- Iran
- Social conflict -- Afghanistan
- DS259.2 .J83 2010
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UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | DS259.2 .J83 2010 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30020000026314 |
Includes bibliographical references.
Documents the author's investigation of daily life in Iran and Afghanistan, from religious shrines to illegal dance parties, and his use of Ferdowsi's epic poem "Shāhnāmeh" as a key to past and present conflict in the region.
Iran. The inside-out city ; The most Persian Persian ; The snake-shouldered tyrant ; In the land of fire ; Minstrels in the mountains. -- Afghanistan. The prisoner poets ; Tea with a warlord. -- Iran and Central Asia. Tahmineh's secret ; The man in the moon ; Poets, polymaths, and pleasure-daughters. -- Afghanistan. The adventures of Abbas ; How to walk like an Afghan ; A holiday house in Helmand. -- Iran. The bird in the coffee cup ; Drinking Arak off an Ayatollah's beard. -- Afghanistan. The road to Ghazni ; Insultin' the Sultan.
