Peek beyond the Persian wall and plunge into the heart of the real Iran, a baffling and often misunderstood culture of contradictions.
Iranian-born and American-raised, acclaimed journalist Hooman Majd has a unique and well-informed understanding of his motherland. In this warm and witty insider's account, Majd opens your eyes to this nation of paradoxes, one that's both conservative and reformative, proud of its Persian heritage, mystified by its outsider status, scornful of Western involvement, highly cosmopolitan and deeply religious.
Along the way you'll meet opium-smoking clerics, female cabbies, ill-dressed officials and more, as Majd guides us through "his own private Persia" (Jon Lee Anderson – author).