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  • Jubber, Nicholas
     
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  • Jubber, Nicholas -- Travel -- Iran.
     
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  • Jubber, Nicholas -- Travel -- Afghanistan.
     
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  • Firdawsī. Shāhnāmah.
     
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  • Social conflict -- Iran.
     
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  • Social conflict -- Afghanistan.
     
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  • Iran -- Description and travel.
     
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  • Afghanistan -- Description and travel.
     
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  • Iran -- Social conditions -- 1997-
     
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  • Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
     
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    Drinking arak off an ayatollah's beard : a journey through the inside-out worlds of Iran and Afghanistan / Nicholas Jubber.
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    Subjects
  • Jubber, Nicholas -- Travel -- Iran.
  •  
  • Jubber, Nicholas -- Travel -- Afghanistan.
  •  
  • Firdawsī. Shāhnāmah.
  •  
  • Social conflict -- Iran.
  •  
  • Social conflict -- Afghanistan.
  •  
  • Iran -- Description and travel.
  •  
  • Afghanistan -- Description and travel.
  •  
  • Iran -- Social conditions -- 1997-
  •  
  • Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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    Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2010.
    Edition: 
    1st Da Capo Press ed.
    Description: 
    x, 327 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 23 cm.
    ISBN: 
    9780306818844 (alk. paper)
    0306818841 (alk. paper)
    Contents: 
    Iran. The inside-out city ; The most Persian Persian ; The snake-shouldered tyrant ; In the land of fire ; Minstrels in the mountains. -- Afghanistan. The prisoner poets ; Tea with a warlord. -- Iran and Central Asia. Tahmineh's secret ; The man in the moon ; Poets, polymaths, and pleasure-daughters. -- Afghanistan. The adventures of Abbas ; How to walk like an Afghan ; A holiday house in Helmand. -- Iran. The bird in the coffee cup ; Drinking Arak off an Ayatollah's beard. -- Afghanistan. The road to Ghazni ; Insultin' the Sultan.
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    Summary: 
    Documents the author's investigation of daily life in Iran and Afghanistan, from religious shrines to illegal dance parties, and his use of Ferdowsi's epic poem "Shāhnāmeh" as a key to past and present conflict in the region.
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