Iran is home to approximately 70.5 million people who are ethnically, religiously, and linguistically diverse.
Cutting through the red tape, this guide gives tips on travel practicalities and highlights for visitors to Iran. It looks at Islamic art, architecture and cultural heritage, and gives advice on how to be sensitive to Islamic culture.
From the sublime to the ridiculous, from Handel's Serse to the Shahs of Sunset, Persophilia degenerated into Iranophobia to bring the organicity of a globalized public sphere to the challenge of a new generation of Iranians navigating ...
About this book Now into its fifth edition, Bradt's Iran continues to provide the most detailed background, history and cultural information available when visiting this 'Jewel of Central Asia'.
This book offers a view of Iran through politics, history and literature, showing how the three angles combine.
'Here you go again ... God this ... God that ... And that's precisely the issue. The King wants us to receive secular military training to erase all the quackery we've been brainwashed with all our lives. He wants us to become rational ...
Here for the first time in English, Yann Richard offers his take on the social and political history of Iran since 1800.
Praised by leading academics in the field as "extraordinary," "a brilliant analysis," "fresh, provocative and iconoclastic," Iran: A People Interrupted has distinguished itself as a major work that has single-handedly...
Describes the people, customs, geography, and climate of the region, recommends hotels and restaurants, looks at points of interest, and suggests security precautions
Iran
Iran
Lonely Planet Iran is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you.
Helps you to understand local manners, customs and laws of Iran. This guide enables you to learn about daily living, historical perspectives, taboos, business etiquette, and eating and drinking.
Unlike much of the instant analysis that appeared at the time of the Iranian revolution, Iran: From Religious Dispute to Revolution is based upon extensive fieldwork carried out in Iran.
In 1956, Inge Morath traveled to the Middle East for Holiday magazine where she wore the traditional chador and traveled alone most of the time. Moraths subjects range from politics...
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Iran: 1924-1926
Surveys the history, modern life, and industry of Iran.
On June 24, 2005, after nearly ten years of supporting liberal reform, the people of Iran surprised the world by electing the conservative mayor of Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as their...
Iran is the only Middle Eastern state to have preserved its national identity through the upheavals of Arab, Turkish and Mongol invasions. It is heir to the richest culture in...