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Author_Kaveh Basmenji
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cultural clash
dancing
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election
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family dynamics
freedom
generational divide
hardliners
interviews
Iranian society
Islamic Revolution
Kaveh Basmenji
Khomeini
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
makeup
modern Iran
moral crimes
mullahs
paramilitaries
parties
personal expression
personal freedom
political analysis
political unrest
rebellion
religiosity
revolution
Shah
social change
social constraints
youth culture
youth movement
youth resistance
Product details
- ISBN 9780863565823
- Weight: 425g
- Dimensions: 135 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 04 Nov 2005
- Publisher: Saqi Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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More than two decades after their parents rose up against the excesses of the Shah, increasing numbers of young Iranians are risking jail for things their counterparts in the West take for granted: wearing makeup, slow dancing at parties, holding hands with members of the opposite sex. Arrests of youngsters often take place at parties raided by hardline religious paramilitaries of roughly their own age, brandishing AK-47s. And every day anxious parents queue at the courthouse to bail out their children, who - in furious defiance of Ayatollah Khomeini's brand of sombre religiosity - 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 personal freedom, in furious defiance of the mullahs and their brand of sombre religiousity. 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 accommodate them?
Kaveh Basmenji was born in Tehran in 1961, and started work as a journalist at the age of sixteen. He has translated several Western literary works into Persian, and has worked for Reuters and the Middle East Times, amongst others. He has published several collections of essays and poems and is currently working on his first novel. He lives in Prague.
