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Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran Hardcover – Deckle Edge, February 3, 2009

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Both a love story and a reporter’s first draft of history, 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.

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February 3, 2009
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6.53 x 1.13 x 9.54 inches
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978-1400066452

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In this intimate look at the modern Iranian middle class, Moaveni, a journalist and the author of Lipstick Jihad (2005), blends her own experiences in Iran with her primary reporting subject: the dubious Tehran reaction to the ascendance of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. An Iranian American living in Lebanon, Moaveni unexpectedly fell in love when she returned to her homeland on assignment. This opened her eyes to a whole new aspect of Iranian life, that of young couples. She writes extensively about how the country’s troubled economic situation forces twenty-somethings to postpone marriage and independence from their families. Iran’s “brain drain” is well documented, but the reasons professionals grudgingly leave Iran have rarely been discussed by Western media, which instead focuses on Ahmadinejad’s rantings. Moaveni tracks the country’s increased social conservatism, and reveals both expensive marriage traditions and governmental manipulation. This perfect blend of political commentary and social observation is an excellent choice for readers interested in going beyond the headlines to gain an in-depth understanding of twenty-first-century Iran. --Colleen Mondor

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“This perfect blend of political commentary and social observation is an excellent choice for readers interested in going beyond the headlines to gain an in-depth understanding of twenty-first-century Iran.”
–Booklist

“A rare, rich glimpse inside a closed society.”
–Kirkus Reviews

“A story of coming-of-age in two cultures [written] with a keen eye and a measured tone.”
–Publishers Weekly

“Sharp and written with ferociously brilliant reporting, Honeymoon in Tehran, Azadeh Moaveni’s nuanced perspective on her ancestors’ homeland, is without peer.”
–Gary Shteyngart, author of Absurdistan

“Honeymoon in Tehran is a timely, well-written, and intimate exploration of the soul of Iran. With an eye for detail and a feel for her subject matter, Moaveni has brought to life a country that is at once immensely important to the West and deeply misunderstood. Honest, perceptive, and nuanced, this tale of love and anguish in the Islamic Republic is brimming with poignant political insights. This book will enchant and educate.”
–Vali Nasr, author of The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future

“At a time when Iranian journalists were jailed and their newspapers regularly shut down, Time magazine correspondent Azadeh Moaveni managed to give voice to the Iranian psyche. Fearlessly, Moaveni pushed the limits of her Iranian government minder and refused to be intimidated. Her stories revealed the internal turmoil felt by many Iranians decades after the revolution. Honeymoon in Tehran is a powerful and compelling read that gives a face to the voices of discourse in Iran, voices that still long for a lawful society.”
–Davar Ardalan, senior producer at NPR News and author of My Name Is Iran

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Random House
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 3, 2009
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 140006645X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1400066452
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.3 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.53 x 1.13 x 9.54 inches
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Azadeh Moaveni is a journalist, writer, and academic who has been covering the Middle East for nearly two decades. She started reporting in Cairo in 1999, while on a Fulbright fellowship to the American University in Cairo. For the next several years she reported from throughout the region as Middle East correspondent for Time magazine, based in Tehran, but covering Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and Iraq. She is the author of Lipstick Jihad, Honeymoon in Tehran, and co-author, with Shirin Ebadi, of Iran Awakening. In November 2015, she published a front-page piece in The New York Times on ISIS women defectors that was finalist for a Pulitzer Prize as part of the Times's ISIS coverage. Her writing appears in the Guardian, the New York Times, and the London Review of Books. She teaches journalism at NYU in London, was a fellow at the New America Foundation, and is now Senior Gender Analyst at the International Crisis Group.

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J. Stafford
Azadeh hits the mark again.
Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2011
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This book follows Azadeh Moaveni's life after she returned to Iran to chronical the government elections that produced Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president. Azadeh also falls in love and marries an Iranian man, she continues to work for Time magazine and as the new government takes shape to be even more brutal than the last, this book chronicles her efforts to report and keep herself out of trouble with the government. Azadeh is an amazing writer and I admire her immensely. She is brave and had a job to do, but when life in Iran became too dangerous after the birth of her son, it broke her heart to leave her country for the safety of her family. Azadeh is fascinatingly detailed in her writing, her work should be read by everyone who wants to understand why people in the middle east are so different from us. I am grateful to her for helping me to see and understand a bit better.

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Lee Grien
A great introduction to a very interesting society in all it's ...
Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2014
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Very interesting insight into life in modern Iran. It clearly shows the inconsistencies of Koranic interpretation, a situation common with the way sacred texts are used in all religious traditions.
A great introduction to a very interesting society in all it's sensibilities.

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What's It Like to Live in Iran?
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If you are an Iranian born in America to Immigrant Iranian parents, then living in the nicer part ("upper class") Cosmopolitan section of Tehran (North Tehran) isn't too bad . . . Until you realize you need to lead a dual life to survive: you can be "you" and experience small glimpses of freedom, even engage in a vice or two, in the privacy of your home; but outside the wall of your garden, in public, you better tow the government line. If you once enjoyed Western World liberty and freedom, then Iran, upon return, loses the luster of a world your family remembers, and shocks you into the world that sadly is.

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A good window into a forbidden world
Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2013
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I do recommend Ms. Moaveni's book with a number of caveats. Just be aware that she is somewhat detached from the realities of the masses, she comes from privilege and lived a privileged life on dollar retainers. She is was abit catty in describing her female peers. She also uses stereotypes that can no longer be true. In describing the band at her wedding, she describes them as being Jews. While it is true that the Jews were the guardian angels of Persian classical music and until the social liberation brought about by the Pahlavis they had been forced to be musicians since most other fields ere closed to them, to say that Jews in post revolutionary Islamic are continuing that tradition does not ring true.
She captures very well the fears that come with having a handler from the secret police / intelligence office monitor your daily life.

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E. McArthur
An insider/outsider view of Iran —
Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2021
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As an Iranian by heritage the author is torn between two cultures. She is also a very acute observer of her surroundings. She falls in love and tries to live in Iran and continue her life but struggles choosing between the strictures on personal life and general society imposed by the erratic regime and the strong family ties she enjoys and feels are unique to Iranian society.

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I loved this book
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Azadeh Moaveni has become one of my favorite authors. I've read all three of her books and learned more about Iran and Iranians from them than any news stories. She mixes her personal life and loves with the issues confronting everyday Iranians. Forget all the jihad talk by the clerics, this is the real Iran.

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excuses excuses
Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2009
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although the author finds the governmental intrusion an irritant, more often she sounds like she is making excuses and justifications not so much for the government but for the people's support for it and for their attitudes. she describes facts reflecting small mindedness, bigotry, sexism, zealotry and fanaticism but tries to jusify them as though she hopes the reader will somehow understand. there is no excusing or understanding a community which perverts religion to subjugate women and suppresses free thinking and expression. casting the entire society as innocent bystanders who are at the mercy of the government is a mischaracterization. likewise, struggling to differentiate between "arabs" and persians sounds as though one is superior to the other or that the distinction is material. the country, which is made up of its population, uses religion as a weapon. complaining that religion is causing iranian rights to be infringed upon without mentioning that the same religion is also the basis and foundation for rampant international terrorism is self serving. the author herself claims liberality and open mindedness but takes swipes at israel, judges "arabs" and struggles to create some non-existent difference between muslims based upon their country of origin. overall, uninformative and unsatisfying.

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Connie P. Utt
Interesting book
Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2010
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An interesting book about part of the world that we generally don't know that much about. We should know more about it because we will have great contact with it in the future. An entirely different mind set from the Western world.

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Shazia Iqbal
Intensely insightful, heart renderingly inspirational
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 7, 2016
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As a person who has always straddled two seemingly diametrically opposed continents and worlds,Azadeh's earnest account spoke to me on levels I was unaware of that have been screaming for healing since childhood.Her fragility and strength navigating embracing her own values in the face of great complexity, and her ownership of Paradox as a certainty in life has not only touched me deeply, but propelled me to step back and redefine what belonging and happiness truly mean for me.A great sequel to "Lipstick Jihad"

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Una giornalista in difficoltà
Reviewed in Italy on June 10, 2014
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E' un resoconto in stile prevalentemente giornalistico di una esperienza umana vera e molto significativa. Avrebbe potuto fornire materia per un romanzo, ma l'autrice ha preferito fare un'altra scelta, in certo senso più coraggiosa

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A vida no Irã de hoje, vista por uma jovem iraniana
Reviewed in Brazil on March 13, 2015
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Um relato ao mesmo tempo lúcido e apaixonado sobre a vida no Irã de hoje, sob a perspectiva de uma jovem correspondente da revista Time. Filha de iranianos que emigraram do seu país após a revolução islâmica dos anos 70, Azadeh Moaveni foi criada nos Estados Unidos e, já adulta e trabalhando em jornalismo, resolve voltar sozinha ao seu país natal. Excelente leitura para quem quer entender o que está acontecendo hoje na vida diária deste povo de cultura milenar.

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Sehr gute Fortsetzung der Lebensgeschichte aus Lipstick Jihad! Flüssig geschrieben, anschauliche "Bilder" über die Lebensrealitäten in Iran. Für Regionalinteressierte ohne primären Faktenhunger sehr zu empfehlen.

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Veronica
A must if you're planning a trip to Iran.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 18, 2017
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Great reading, very well written. Azadeh's love for her country is obvious and one gets a good impression of present life in Iran. Scarry, secretive and tells how people find ways to have a 'normal' life.

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