Among the Iranians: A Guide to Iran's Culture and Customs

Among the Iranians: A Guide to Iran's Culture and Customs by Sofia Koutlaki


ISBN
9781931930901
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
240
Dimensions
167 x 229 x 14mm

In the wake of the media focus on Iran's nuclear technology development and its place in Middle East politics, the West continues its quest to understand this paradoxical nation: its politics, yes, but also its people, their culture, and even their everyday customs and rituals.

Western readers may be familiar with a stereotyped view of Iran's unchanging 'high culture' in its great mosques and squares and to some extent its classical literature in the poems of Hafez and Khayyam. However, this book conveys the flavour of everyday life in Iran. From from queueing for bread to dress codes and degrees of piety; from polite behaviour and the cultural notion of face, to gender roles and the image that every Iranian wants to project to the world, Among the Iranians offers Westerners access to a private, culturally unexplored Iran and the opportunity to delight in the commonplace experience that is the stuff of life.
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