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Tehran blues : how Iranian youth rebelled against Iran's founding fathers
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Tehran blues : how Iranian youth rebelled against Iran's founding fathers

Author: Kaveh Basmenji
Publisher: London : Saqi, 2005.
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More than two decades after their parents rose up against the Shah's excesses, increasing numbers of young Iranians risk jail at the hands of religious paramilitaries roughly their own age, for things their counterparts in the West take for granted: wearing makeup, slow dancing at parties, holding hands with members of the opposite sex. Every day anxious parents queue at courthouses to bail out sons and daughters  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Basmenji, Kaveh.
Tehran blues.
London : Saqi, 2005
(OCoLC)654598140
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Kaveh Basmenji
ISBN: 0863565824 9780863565823
OCLC Number: 58454795
Description: 349 p. ; 21 cm.
Responsibility: Kaveh Basmenji.
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More than two decades after their parents rose up against the Shah's excesses, increasing numbers of young Iranians risk jail at the hands of religious paramilitaries roughly their own age, for things their counterparts in the West take for granted: wearing makeup, slow dancing at parties, holding hands with members of the opposite sex. Every day anxious parents queue at courthouses to bail out sons and daughters who have been detained for 'moral crimes'. Kaveh Basmenji, who spent his own youth amidst the turbulence of the Islamic Revolution, argues that Iran's youth are in near-open revolt for want of greater freedoms, in furious defiance of the mullahs and their brand of sombre religiosity. Through candid interviews with young people, and in a careful assessment of Iran today (including a special chapter on the implications of the recent election to the presidency of hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad), Basmenji gets to the heart of the matter: What do Iran's youth want, and how far are their elders prepared to go to accommodate them?

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